Thursday, January 17, 2013

Porsche�s 917/20 �Pink Pig� Le Mans Racer is a Tasty Piece of History


Racing cars that don�t win races are quickly forgotten even by their own creators. Winners make history, second is the first loser: that�s the way it�s always been. Surely, nobody remembers a Le Mans contender that didn�t even make it to the finish line, right?

That may be true for most cars but not for Porsche�s 917. The brainchild of current VW Group supremo Ferdinand Piech, it is deeply etched in racing history not only for giving Porsche its first-ever victory at La Sarthe in 1970, followed by another one the next year but also because it starred in Steve McQueen�s 1971 Le Mans film.

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