Mercurial talent Stefan Bellof was killed on this day 40 years ago. When Porsche decided to challenge the most celebrated of all lap records - Bellof's, at the Nordschliefe - Motor Sport had a ringside seat
The familiarity of the scene is uncanny. A gaggle of Porsche engineers huddled around the latest prototype racing car, preparing it in readiness for an attack on the most formidable track of them all.
Three and a half decades ago it was Norbert Singer crouched by the forward-hinged door of Stefan Bellof's Rothmans-liveried 956 in the Nürburgring's small 'T13' paddock. Today it's Porsche Motorsport's Andreas Seidl – Porsche's LMP1 team principal – having a few words with factory driver Timo Bernhard before he too commits himself to an all-out lap of the Green Hell...
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