BREAKING NEWS: Quick Vic Comes to 914World.com!, Don't miss this one! Options

[Eric_Shea]

BREAKING NEWS: QUICK VIC COMES TO 914World.com!!



Same teener time, same teener channel:

What Day? - Sunday May 6th
What Time? - 8:00PM EST - 5:00PM PST
What Site? - www.914World.com of course!

Join us for a live chat with racing legend Vic Elford. Sit back and enjoy from the comfort of your own living room as Vic logs on and answers "your" questions!

For those not "in the know" here's a little tic about Vic:

Born on June 10th 1935 in London, England is perhaps the greatest all-round driver ever. By 1967 Quick Vic was "the man" for the Porsche Factory Team. Victories in the Geneva, Stuttgart-Lyon-Charbonnières and Tulip rallies coupled with podium finishes on Monte Carlo and the Tour de Corse, all in a 911, assured Vic Elford the European GT Rally Championship.



Podium finishes continued to abound in this, his first season of circuit racing, winning the British championship and his international debuts in Porsche 911R, 906 and 910 at Le Mans, Mugello, Reims and Nurburgring.

Vic finished the season on a high note with "Le Marathon de la Route" at the Nurburgring. Driving a 911R Sportomatic, he drove an amazing four consecutive 7 1/2 hour rain and fog filled nights around the Sud/NordSchleife track, to win this mind-boggling 84 hour event.

1968 saw victory in the Monte Carlo Rally in a 911, followed a week later by victory in the 24 hours of Daytona in a 907, Porsche's first ever outright win in a 24 hours race.

At the Targa Florio, despite starting the second lap of the ten lap, 720 km race more than 18 minutes behind the leading car, Vic and co-driver Umberto Maglioli came back to win by more than a minute. Porsche, in recognition of his efforts, dedicated their traditional victory poster not to the car, but to the driver. The only time a Porsche poster ever featured only the driver - not the car.



Drawing on the experience of all those hours at night on the Nurburgring the year before, Vic followed up with victory, the first of three, in the 1000kms of Nurburgring, associated with Jo Siffert in a 908 Coupe.

By 1971 Vic had become one of the very few drivers to have won both the American Crown Jewels of endurance racing, the 24 hours of Daytona and the 12 hours of Sebring.

Lap records included:

• Targa Florio
• Nurburgring
• Daytona
• Sebring
• Norisring
• Monza
• Buenos Aires
• Road Atlanta
• Laguna Seca
• Riverside and
• Le Mans - where he was the first driver to lap at over 150mph in the Porsche long-tail 917 in 1970!



Vic was one of the select few Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 drivers hired by Steve McQueen to do the high speed close-up action driving for Steve's film "Le Mans". During the 24 hours of Le Mans, when a Ferrari crashed in front of him, Vic stopped in mid-race to extricate the driver from his burning car. T.V. cameras caught the action and Vic was named Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite by French President Georges Pompidou for his act of courage and heroism.

Need more?

Who wrote the book on Porsche High-Performance Driving? Why, Vic Elford of course. The Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook was and still is the "Bible" for many wanting to improve their times at the autocross track, the rally course or the road course.

Add to that Vic's latest literary achievement Reflections on a Golden Era of Motorsport You "must" get an autographed copy of this book before the event! Get both! Vic mentioned in one of his emails that there are no ghost writers... you get the real Vic Elford in these books.

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[iamchappy]

This is great! Only thing better that I can think of is bringing Mark Donahue back from the dead to join us...