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Porsche Racing Cars 1976 - 2005 Brian Long
At 272-pages, this is
more of an overview of Porsche’s racing activities between ’76 and ’05,
and there’s plenty to cover in what really was Porsche’s busiest period
in international racing. The book picks up with the 934 and the
935, and then accelerates rapidly as Porsche continues to dominate
sports car racing with the 936 and then, of course, with the 956/962 in
the ’80s. Every model in the range in those days had racing
potential, as borne out by the 924 Carrera GTS and the 944 GTP racers.
Even the humble 924 got turned into a lightweight racer for the
American SCCA market, featuring big arches and the familiar 2-litre,
slant-four engine running on throttle-body fuel-injection.
The
book also covers Porsche’s Indy Car mission – plus, of course, the
highly-successful collaboration with TAG and Mclaren in F1 and the
not-so-successful F1 collaboration with Arrows in the ’90s. Things tail
off a bit from the late ’90s, as Porsche becomes more a manufacturer of
customer cars, but the arrival of the RS Spyder in 2005 in sportscar
racing is encouraging.
Well-written and packed with pics, this is another excellent offering from author Long and publisher Veloce. |
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