Carrera Cup USA THE COMPETITION THAT NEVER WAS
An unsung success of Ulrich Bez’s controversial three-year stint as board member for engineering was the inauguration of the Porsche Cup. One-marque championships were nothing new, but an exclusively 911 event captured race organisers’ imaginations, in particular Porsche Cars North America (PCNA). This looked to be an obvious competition to mount in what had always been Porsche’s largest market. The Americans also recalled the success of the IROC (International Race of Champions) series run with the 911 3.0 RS in 1972/73.
Just as two decades earlier it had sold specially prepared 3.0 RS to participating teams, in 1991 PCNA proposed a US Porsche Cup using the 964 RS as sold in Europe. However, a problem arose because Porsche AG had misgivings about how the US Department of Transport and Environmental Protection Agency would react to the import of a 911 that wasn’t homologated: memories of the ‘959 affair’ were still fresh. Porsche’s twin-turbo 1980s
