Porsche’s First 917 CanAm Spyder To Sell For Up To 6 Million

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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Authorised at the beginning of June 1969, the new 917 Spyder evolved over the next ten weeks and was referred to as the 917 PA (Prototype America). Chassis. A pair of new 917 aluminium spaceframes were fabricated for the job. Chassis 027 was retained by Porsche for development work and chassis 028 was sent out to race in the USA.

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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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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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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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Porsche's 917 PA Spyder Packs 800+ HP Flat-16 Engine On: November 22, 2023 Wild 16-Cylinder Boxer Engine: Unheard Of! Porsche's iconoclastic 917 race autos weren't manufactured suddenly; the iconic German manufacturer had to endure extensive development and prototype testing, ultimately developing a revolutionary 16-cylinder motor.

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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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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.