Chassis 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 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 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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