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There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to new heights of popularity in the United States. The series was governed by an open and simple set of rules, which created an environment that brought the most powerful and...
In 1996 the 30 years of the Canadian – American Challenge Cup series were celebrated, better known as CanAm and which only ran for 9 seasons (1966-1974), although it stood out for using the cutting edge technology of the moment. The CanAm series gave more than enough action to keep it in the memory of the...
Porsche 911 Turbo Air Cooled Years 1975 – 1998 / Hans Mezger Edition 2020 by Andreas Gabriel, Thomas Nehlert and Matthias Techau © Berlin Motor Books There was hardly a Porsche enthusiast who wasn’t deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Porsche’s favourite engineers, Hans Mezger. It...
1969 Porsche 917 LH poses outside the workshops in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen © Porsche Werkfoto The world has become obsessed with anniversaries or facts that you can leverage, in order to bring your message across. And that is also true to some extent about this account of a legendary race car, but...
Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out with North America’s Greatest Race Series 1966-74 © Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc First impressions – Can-Am 50th Anniversary is a big book! It’s not that it is so thick, but dimensionally it is large in length and breadth, so you had best find yourself...