Back in 2011, my book, Porsche at Le Mans: Sixty Years of Porsche Participation In The Greatest Motor Race, was published, and it quickly sold out. Porsche at Le Mans was short-listed as a finalist in the British Motorsports Book of the Year awards at a ceremony in London. So when I was asked by Motorbooks International (Quarto Knows) to update this to 'Porsche at Le Mans 70 Years’ (1951 - 2021), I jumped at the opportunity of bringing this title up to the then-current 2021 race. My strong
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Ferrari 512 S/M, the Porsche 917 challenger
Enzo Ferrari was probably quite annoyed with himself that he misjudged Porsche’s 917 entry into Group 4 racing (as it was in 1969), and so a plan was hastily put in place to remedy this. The result was an intoxicating recipe for one of the greatest showdowns in motor racing. History reveals that while this clash of the titans did not quite materialise as hoped for, the Ferrari 512, in either S- or M-spec, still raises the hairs on the back of one’s neck today as much as it did in period. At the