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Even if Porsche was no longer part of the battle for the overall win, Wolfgang Porsche the youghest of the 4 Ferry Porsche sons, and the only one Porsche left in the Porsche management was there


Just for fun Wolgang Porsche with his 3 brothers Hans Peter, Ferdinand Alexander, and Gerhrard

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To celebrate their 70th anniversary Porsche marketing dept had the idea to recreate two famous Porsche
The 917/20 Pink Pig 7th in the 1970 Le Mans race

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and a tribute to the Rothmans color who wa

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And a tribute to Rothmans the cigarette company who had been a thrusty Porsche support as long as the poublicity for cigarettes was authorized as for the 952 sport car who achieved a 1, 2 and 3 in the 1982 Le Mans race

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAiuca55Kho

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I got mixed feelings about this livery. Which I think looks great but is promoting a product that's kills people.

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Hi everybody

Been quite silent on this forum these last past weeks being fully occupied by sailing and the obligation to move in a new house after my mother death (fortunately only one mile off the one where I was born and spent a large share of my life)
Due to the above I missed the 2018 Le Mans Classic
It was really sad as this year the 137.000 paying visitors (indeed largely over the 200.000 including the non-paying guests and competitors familly and friends)
benefited (on the contrary of the 2016 edition who had been cold and rainy) of a fantastic blue sky all the week and of course all the 3 days of racing July 6th/7th and 8th

[Porschinelle]

Luckily through some of my friends (and particularly Jean Claude Grangeon) who were lucky enough to attend this event I got a lot of pics I am pleased to share with you
Porsche was celebrating their 70th anniversary with a very strong presence of cars from the Stuttgart Museum
some famous ex-racing cars as this 911 3.0 RSR

but also the Porsche number one replica from the museum

and also a Gmund SL (real or re-constructed ?) wearing the 1964 Liege Rome Liege race plate with race number 86 in memory of the Gmund 356-02 SL that Helmut Polensky and Herbert Linge drove to victory in 1964

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Sorry I made a typing error in the above post
Of course you all know that the second Helmuth Polensky victory in the Liege Roe Liege was 1954, not 1964
To be complete Helmuth Polensly helped by Werner Schulter already won Liege Rome Liege in 1952 at the wheel of Gilberte Thirion 356 SL-02 061 with the famous Belgium plate 1211

[Porschinelle]

For those who don't know all the classic cars accepted in the Le Mans Classic event are split in 6 age groups
Each group will race several times over the 3 days event
In between the races the long (13.5 Km) race track (the same used for the Le Mans 24 hours race) is open to parades open to the attending makes clubs)
The Porsche parade was fabulous

with all the members of various Porsche clubs reunited on one pic

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This year due to the 70th anniversary the Porsche car park behind the spectators
stands inside the race track had its 1.000 places reserved to Classic Porsches (from the 356 to the 993)
All the modern ie water cooled Porsches had to park outside the race track

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The 1.000 places of the official Porsche clubs car park were fully booked a long time before the event
Porsche owners were very happy to be accepted in Clubs car park as the one of the original flat four car club amongst old VW, Kombis and Karmann Ghia

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The less lucky Classic Porsches owners had to share the organisation car parks with other makes cars


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In addition to the thousands of visitors cars there were over 100 racing Porsches of all years and types
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