AVAST BOOK ON PORSCHE competition and not a single mention of the 911 or 956/62? Huge and weighty though it is, this book starts with 1948 and cuts off in 1965, firmly ignoring the arrival of the 911 which was about to launch the Stuttgart firm into serious sales and an ensuing tidal wave of race and rally successes.
Instead this is purely about racing efforts during the first period of the firm’s competition entries – the 356 Carreras, 550 and 718 RS spyders, the. But he “hopes all fans of Porsche might find an ‘I didn’t know that’ moment within these pages”. I did – one aside notes that Porsche’s Herbert Linge created a Mille Miglia road book in 1954, which DSJ borrowed before compiling his rollermap for 1955.
