The real 73 RSR TF Winner - Porsche Factory Scam??

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Thanks for posting. Nice to see that footage. Whatever the debate about car we know the driver was a winner of that race!

I was fortunate to have lunch with Gijs Van Lennep last year. Unplanned, we just happened to sit together at an event. Not only discussed the RSR but later the conversation turned to his single seater races for Frank Williams. Prodigious memory that is evident in the film was also clear from our chat — when he heard I had run the formal technical after-action debriefs for the F1 team for a couple of seasons he recounted the trackside discussions he’d had with Frank regarding: wing angles, tyre choices and engine rev limits particularly for the Zandvoort race, so that would’ve been roughly about time of his Porsche RSR drives. Great recall of detail and very animated about things from F1 races that happened about five decades before our lunchtime chat.

“He had two F1 seasons with Williams.

He returned to Formula One in July at 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, driving Frank Williams' Iso-Marlboro IR. He qualified 20th and finished 6th, scoring one point. Later in the year, he finished 9th at Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring and retired at Italian Grand Prix at Monza. In 1974, Van Lennep competed for Williams at Belgian Grand Prix at Nivelles, finishing 14th. His last attempt with Williams, at 1974 Dutch Grand Prix, wasn't successful and he failed to qualify”.

Steve