Chassis 040 was the first Porsche 917 built to Langheck trim which was a special low drag version created exclusively to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours with its ultra high speed straights. Assembled…
Read MoreChassis 01-021 was the AAW Racing Team 917 Spyder raced by Leo Kinnunen to victory in the 1971 Interserie Championship (the first of three back-to-back titles for Kinnunen in the premier European…
Read MoreChassis 028 was one of two 917s constructed by Porsche to Group 7 Spyder trim in anticipation of the company’s 1969 Can-Am programme. The sister car (chassis 027) remained in Germany as a…
Read MoreChassis 023 was one of four 917s leased to the Porsche Konstruktionen Salzburg team for the 1970 season. The Salzburg operation was a quasi-works outfit run by Ferdinand Porsche’s grandson…
Read MoreChassis 020 was one of four 917s allocated to the quasi-works Porsche Salzburg squad for the 1970 season. Although Porsche had signed a deal with John Wyer Automotive Engineering to race the 917…
Read MoreChassis 024 was one of the rare Porsche 917s that never raced in period. The car made its debut appearance at the 1970 Le Mans Test which took place over the weekend of April 11th and 12th.
Read MoreAlthough Porsche contracted John Wyer’s Gulf-backed team to handle the racing side of things with the 917 for 1970 and 1971, Ferdinand Porsche’s grandson, Ferdinand Piech (who had been a key…
Read MoreChassis 013 was one of the eight 917s raced on Porsche’s behalf by the Gulf-backed John Wyer Automotive Engineering crew during 1970. 013 first appeared as a T-car for the Daytona 24 Hours…
Read MoreChassis 014 was one of the eight 917s used by the Gulf-backed John Wyer Automotive Engineering operation during the 1970 season. Porsche had recruited Wyer’s team (JWAE) with a two-year deal to…
Read MoreChassis 015 was one of the eight 917s raced by the Gulf-backed John Wyer Automotive Engineering crew in 1970 (JWAE). Having spent a vast sum on racing and development in the years prior, Porsche…
Read MoreBetween 1969 and 1971, only a handful of Porsche 917s were sold to privateers. Chassis 018 was one such car. It was acquired for the 1970 season by Alex Soler-Roig of Barcelona. Soler-Roig was an…
Read MoreChassis 016 first appeared for the 917’s homologation inspection in April 21st 1969. Like the majority of 917s present that day, 016 had only been loosely assembled. It was subsequently dismantled to be…
Read MoreHaving started life as one of the loosely assembled 917s presented to the FIA inspectors on April 21st 1969, chassis 012 was dismantled to be properly rebuilt at a later date. It was called to action in…
Read MoreChassis 021 was one of 25 Porsche 917s presented to the FIA inspectors on April 21st 1969 after which it was dismantled for reassembly at a later date. On April 10th 1970, chassis 021…
Read MoreChassis 009 was one of three Porsche 917s that raced in 1969, 1970 and 1971. The others (007 and 010) were sold off to privateers for 1970 but 009 was campaigned exclusively by the Porsche factory and…
Read MoreIn order for the Porsche 917 to be homologated, a batch of 25 completed cars were lined up for the FIA to inspect on April 21st 1969. Even though secretly only a handful were fully functional…
Read MoreChassis 022 was one of the 25 917s presented to the FIA inspectors on April 21st 1969. Like most of these cars, it was only loosely assembled. During 1969, Porsche used chassis 001 for promotional…
Read MoreWhen John Wyer signed up to run Porsche’s factory racing programme for the 1970 and 1971 seasons, he thought his Gulf-backed operation had an exclusive arrangement to do so. However…
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