Well?
Mike Hagen did some good trading for it , see more info here
http://www.pbase.com/9146gt/sonauto_40_porsche_9146gt_24_hours_le_mans
Won its class, not the race, it was overshadowed by a much bigger fish with 6 extra jugs, and way more HP.
Yes Hagen ownes it, lucky man. Thou when you think of the feat for the 914 to win its class, it kinda makes the the 917 look a little bad. But you will never here a Porsche owner of any other type tell you that.
I thought Brad had it..... For a while........
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But didn't it win 6th over all? Out of all the cars on that track, I believe it
took 6th. That is fuching amazing.
"Placed" sixth....sixth wins nothing except a place in History....in this case it "survived"....
It 'won' the GT class.
Take a look at the GT cars of today. We all know Kevin and The Racers Group right Why? Mainly because he won the GT class at Le Mans.
If you were the driver and you won your class, I will 'guarantee' you that you'd be telling your friends and family for the rest of your life how you 'won' Le Mans.
A class win is a win. That's why the have 'classes'.
but even if it was the next place to the last - about 43 cars (or so) didn't manage to finish the race
so I'd say that's not so bad
it shows that our beloved teener is (at least it was ) a reliable racecar
Its sitting over at Hergesheimers in Lake Forest with a stuck rear caliper.
I'm not belittling the accompishment. Just making a comment on survival versus winning.
24 hour races are just that.....You can win by getting out front by beating the crap out of the car and then coasting hoping that everyone else breaks or lurking in the rear waiting for the front runners to break.
Good brakes, good suspension, solid drive train will always win out in the end....if the end is far enuff away....
Winning the class sounds good.....being sixth of seven that finished not as good.....but both descriptions are accurate.
here are the 3 cars
914.0.43.2541 - Lic: S - W 1947 - bumper black / yellow
914.0.43.2542 - Lic: S - W 1948 - bumper black / red
914.0.43.2543 - Lic: S - W 1949 - bumper black / green
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and here's the famous shot at the finish line
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Out of the 50 or so cars that started only 7 finished. "It was a rainy Le Mans that year" So 6th place is the next to last place finish... The important statistic was the fact the little 914 was only 61 laps down on the Panzer. and on the same lap as the 911 that came in 7th.
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Out of 50 cars only 7 finished and a 914/6 came in 6th ahead of a 911, that is 43 cars that did not finish. You are kinda hard to please arn't you.
In 1980 a 914-6 GTU car finished 5th overall and 1st in class at the Daytona 24 hours. Driven by Bill Koll and Jim Cook.
(I was there )
This a picture of the car but this was taken at Riverside.
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Regarding the Le Mans winner -
Anyone notice there's no cage in that car?!
They convinced the sanctioning body that the traga bar = roll bar, and then they bolted the top down and reinforced the A pillars.
Safe probally not, but it did save a few pounds of the GT.
Can anybody tell me what cars were in the same class as the 914?
Everyone seems to forget about the 1971 IMSA GT Champion
*1971 Porsche 914/6 GT (Brumos overall IMSA Camel GT championship.
Here the 914 took on the Vettes, Camero's, Mustangs, Javelin's, Bmw, Datsun and 911's.
http://www.wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/imsa/imsa1971.html
The 1971 season was the first racing season to feature six races. GT cars, similar to the European classes Group 4 and Group 2, were competing in the early seasons and were divided into four groups: GTO, GTU, TO and TU. The first champions were Peter H. Gregg and Hurley Haywood, in a Porsche 914/6 GTU. Usual winners in these early years of IMSA were the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR and Chevrolet Corvette. Camel, for the following year, would step in as the title sponsor, therefore the series became known as Camel GT
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