1971 Porsche 917 Interserie Spyder Images, Specifications and Information

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Called "one of the strongest racing cars of all time", this advanced 12-cylinder vehicle dominates circuit races. With Mark Donohue at the wheel, it beats out McLaren with a long lead for the second time in the CanAm Series. It's the first time that turbochar ging has prevailed on a race course with so many curves.

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Porsche built just three magnesium-chassis 917/30 racecars for the 1973 season. Chassis 001 was a development car based at Weissach on which new ideas and components were tried and tested during the season, while chassis 003 was Donohue's race car and 002 was the team's spare. Although Donohue inflicted most of his 'damage' in chassis.

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There are several different iterations of the Porsche 917, but none were as brutally powerful as the 917/30 Spyder.Built to compete in the Can-Am championship, it used a twin-turbo version of.

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Three lightweight 917 Spyders were prepared by Porsche specifically for the Interserie, a new European-based racing series that mimicked the Can-Am rules from North America. Since it was initially run under Group 7 regulations, Porsche could remove the roof and make the design even more potent.

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Having made a solid debut in Can-Am with the 1969 Group 7 917 Spyder, Porsche had nevertheless been soundly beaten by the works McLaren M8Bs with their seven-litre 635bhp Chevrolet engines. In comparison, the Flat 12 engine used by Porsche in 1969 had displaced just 4.5-litres and produced 580bhp.

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This is how the famous Porsche 917's flat-12 sounds like when you have a quad exhaust system instead of the usual "double-exit" one. Yes, yes: "Hellou, Capta.

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At the end of what had been a very successful season, chassis 01-021 returned to Porsche who subsequently loaned it to Ernst Kraus for a trio of late season Interserie races in 1972 after Kraus's own 917 Spyder (chassis 031) had incurred damage at Hockenheim.

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In 1972, Porsche is the only manufacturer to deploy turbo engines on the angular circuits of the Can-Am Championship; it wins the title by a wide margin with the 917/10. Porsche gets the 1973 season off to a blistering start with the 917/30 Spyder. Its 5.4-litre twelve-cylinder twin turbo engine delivers up to 1,200 PS, sprinting to 200 km/h in.

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Idle speed is around 1,000 rpm like you're used to, but all the power is up high, so give it more revs than you think when you release the clutch, or you'll stall a Porsche 917 in front of.

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Hairy monsters - the Porsche 917/10 Can-Am Spyder Porsche 917/10-018 (1973) Jody Scheckter, photographed at Laverstoke House, Overton, UK, 2017 Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually carried the honour of being the country's motorsport centre up until the early 1960s.

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The 917/30 of 1973 was, for all intents and purposes, an all-new car when compared to its predecessor. At the heart of the car was an enlarged 5.4-liter flat 12-cylinder engine - turbocharged, of.

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In honor of the 12 Hours of Sebring-winning Porsche RS Spyder, Sports Car Digest highlights the Porsche 917 PA Spyder.

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The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars.

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Engineers fully dedicate themselves to continuing to develop Porsche turbo technology, while the sixteen-cylinder 917 Spyder is destined instead for the Porsche Museum in October 1971. Year: 1969 Engine: 16-cylinder V 180˚ Displacement: 6,543 ccm Output: 555 kW (755 PS) Weight: 841 kg Top speed: 360 km/h next page 1970: Porsche 917 KH (short-tail)

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1973 Porsche 917/30 Spyder Rule changes for the World Championship of Makes eliminated the stunning Porsche 917 during the early 1970s allowing the factory to develop the car for the open-top Canadian-American (CanAm) Championship in North America. Teams from McLaren, Lola and Chaparral were attracted to the 200 mile Sprint races of the formula and the rule book permitted almost anything.