Anniversary Forty Years of the Porsche 917Forty years ago at the Geneva All-embracing Motor Show, today's Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche apparent a car that, alike by today's standards, is underestimated back it is declared as the “super sports car”: The Porsche 917. It became a fable as one of the fastest and best acknowledged antagonism cars of all time.
Porsche accursed the starting attempt for Project 917 in June 1968, afterwards the all-embracing motor sports ascendancy or FIA had appear a chic of “homologated sports cars” with up to bristles liters cubic accommodation and a minimum weight of 800 kilograms. Under the administration of Ferdinand Piëch, the assured 25 units of the new antagonism car archetypal were completed by April 1969 so that the 917 could activate its antagonism career in the aforementioned year. Afterwards it initially alone out of its aboriginal three contest due to abstruse problems, the 917 success adventure began in August 1969 at a 1,000-kilometer chase at the Österreichring with a achievement by Jo Siffert and Kurt Ahrens.
