The Group C formula was so simple there were at least a dozen workable solutions. But one company solved the equation on the drawing board, proving that x = 956. Even seven triumphant seasons later, that answer had only been revised by 6…
There is something indescribably exciting about seeing these two Porsches parked next to each other. While any Porsche 956 or 962 is a pretty special device, these specific chassis are the very first and last works Group C Porsches. The most significant versions of the greatest cars to race together in the most revered formula for sports car racing ever devised.
There's something else, too: a sense of incongruity. For today we are not in Stuttgart or Weissach, but down a lane in rural southeast England where these two form perhaps the most important pillars of the Historic Porsche Collection, an assembly of over a dozen works and private Group C Porsches, each with extraordinary histories and tales of derring-do to tell from Daytona to Mount Fuji, via a little-used track in the north west of France...
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