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Originally Posted by Ronzi
I guess you are referring to the "unfair advantage" philosophy espoused by Penske and Mark Donohue during the great Penske/Porsche CanAm years. Look at the rules, and the competition, then craft a device that is capable of meeting the first and beating the snot out of the second. Porsche has been good at that, but I think that is to their credit and not a criticism. I would point out, however, that the 917 won LeMans something like eight or nine times, taking on all comers for over a decade.
No question their history in open-wheel racing is less than spectacular. The early F1 cars were initially competitive, but were soon swallowed up by the Cosworth engine and the chassis-of-the-month club of the English car builders. In more recent history the TAG-Porsche and the Porsche Indy car effort both lacked development time and money. I don't think we will see Porsche entering either US open-wheel nor the F1 money-burning machine any time soon.
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Hi,
I hear what you're saying, good points.
To me though, Porsche has never seemed so dedicated to Racing as it has been to selling to the Privateer. Much of their racing heritage rests on the shoulders of such privateers as Von Trips, Gurney, Adamowicz, Folmer, Penske and the like. Even the RS Spyder was announced as a Privateer offering after Porsche's innuagural year. They seem to lack the dedicated enthusiasm, as a company, Enzo Ferrari, Bruce McLaren, Colin Chapman, John Cooper and such pursued throughout their lives. Just MHO...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99