The 956 on the left was the works team's first Group C winner at Le Mans, while the 962 on the right was its last. Andrew Frankel, in the ultimate pinch-yourself track session, tests both before taking part in a Goodwood Members' Meeting cavalcade of raw power for today's Great Read
These are none other than the first and last Porsches to win the Le Mans 24 Hours during the legendary Group C era. Not examples of those cars, but the actual cars. And this is the first time that Porsche has allowed them to be brought together and tested by a motor journalist. This, then, is quite an occasion.
But there's more here, even than that. You might expect two such famous racing cars to be grizzled warriors, veterans of dozens of fights that took place all over the world during the superb first six years of the Group C era. But they are not. In fact their race records are staggeringly short...
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