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Porsche 917K Le Mans 1971 winner... finished pics!!! (15 : 56K beware!)
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Porsche 917K Le Mans 1971 winner... finished pics!!! (15 : 56K beware!)
A little history about this car : it won the Le Mans 24 hrs race in 1971, with Marko-Van Lennep at the wheel, at an average speed of 222,304 km/hr! This record still stands, because in 1972 the maximum engine cubic capacity was reduced from 5000 cc to 3000 cc. And by the time the technique had caught up with the lacque of engine capacity, the organisers had built 2 large chicanes on the Hunadières straight where cars used to reach speeds up to 400 Km/hr! Those speeds belong to history forever now...
Here are the pics :
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