Porsche 72/73 and the RS (Lehrenkrauscafe forum)

[911T1971]

Stumbled on this english text translated from portuguese..and pretty amazed about the infos, dont think all is available on the internet (for example the chassis number vs colors.) (I maybe wrong)

http://www.lehrenkrauscafe.com/vbfor...ead.php?t=3290

"Back to Hockenheimring, alone in the pits was Porsche’s intern and Singer’s “protégé“, named Wolfgang Berger that, seeing Fuhrmann completely disoriented by the failure of Porsche in races, told him: "The one to blame for this is Michael Kranefuss (sporting director at Ford) who had the idea to create a Rennsport group car that could evade the FIA rules in terms of weight. Basically what he did was to take out of the car all that was unnecessary, and just added a rear spoiler. The result is what you see."

"It would be Wendelin Wiedeking that would stop Singer. One day in Zuffenhausen, Wendelin will ask Singer why Weissach has requested money to develop a new prototype that year, when they had won Le Mans and the main American endurance events. Times were clearly other. In the 90’s, Wendelin was now fully focused on restructuring the company. The transformation in what is today's Porsche: an ambidextrous company, focused on producing cars for “regular customers” as for “Porschistes”. In 1998, after the great victory at Le Mans, Wendelin will withdraw all the money that came from Singer in Weissach. That will be the end of Singer’s in Porsche. They officially ruled the end of the racing program at. Porsche. Where did the money go? Well, think a little bit there ...... exactly. The Cayenne program. Singer is then retired from Porsche, but one day Cristophorus “slips" and publishes an amazing photo: Singer in the wind tunnel with the model of the Carrera GT…"

[kouwenhoven]

That is one good source for everybody that does not want to pay 1500 for Dr. konradsheims book!

Very nice, thanks for sharing Karim

Erik