FRIENDS REUNITED
On the 15th May 2021, the 924 Carrera GTS you see on these pages was the subject of a special anniversary: exactly forty years earlier, two-time World Rally Championship (WRC) victor, Walter Röhrl, and his co-driver, Christian Geistdörfer, rolled off the starting ramp at the ADAC International Metz Rally in the distinctively styled black-and-gold Monnet-liveried transaxle, marking the start of the first and only season of rallying in which Röhrl competed for Porsche. Indeed, other marques benefited from his skill behind the wheel long before and after his stint for the Stuttgart squad: for his maiden WRC season in 1973, Röhrl drove for official Opel tuning partner, Irmscher, piloting a Commodore GS/E, before working his way through various Asconas and Kadetts for the Opel Euro Händler Team. In 1977, he switched to Fiat, campaigning a 131 Abarth for four seasons, during which he gradually climbed his way up driver standings to clinch his first overall WRC title, which came the season before he joined the Porsche works team.
Geistdörfer was Röhrl’s
