For racing Porsche used its Austrian-built Type 356 coupes, which were lighter with aluminum bodies and stiffer frames than the production cars.Ī solo entry in the 24-hour Le Mans race in 1951 came home with the 1,100 cc class victory. They weren’t slow to return to the tracks. A racing-car project-for Italy’s Cisitalia-put them back on their feet after the war. They had designed and helped develop the great Auto Union racing cars of 1934 through 1937. Ferry inherited the outstanding team of engineers that his father assembled when he set up his engineering consulting office in Stuttgart at the end of 1930.įor Ferry and his team, motor sports were high in both interest and priority. Thereafter his son Ferry, 42 years old in 1951, took charge of the family-owned company. It took the road in good time to be blessed by founder Ferdinand Porsche, who died at the age of 75 in January of 1951. The first German-built Porsche sports car was made in the spring of 1950. It produced its first handfuls of cars in Austria in 1948 and ‘49.
GT LEGENDS PORSCHE 550 SERIES
Porsche was still in its swaddling clothes as a car maker when its 550 series was born.
It all began with the production Spyders of 1955. Dominating its 1½-liter class, in race after race the Spyders punched well above their weight to rival vastly bigger cars. Porsche’s Type 550 Spyder achieved so much success in so many parts of the world for so many years that it must be the greatest sports-racing car in history.
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