Chassis No.

9248100015


Porsche Internal No.

924 L19


Spare Engine No.

31011370



The thought that "Racing Improves the Breed" isn't necessarily a Porsche-only ethos-but it often feels that way.

While Porsche is best known for endurance and sports car racing, the Stuttgart firm has repeatedly demonstrated that when it turns its attention to a particular discipline, success follows, whether in Formula One, land-speed records, or rallying.

Indeed, factory driver and rally specialist Vic Elford once remarked that Porsche would have won every major rally of the 1970s had it chosen to fully pursue the sport after its Monte Carlo hat trick in 1968, 1969, and 1970-a telling measure of the company's rallying capability, even during periods when its focus lay elsewhere.



Even though Porsche's focus in the mid-1970s returned to the circuit, rally racing had many proponents within Porsche, namely the future head of the Customer Sport Department, Porsche factory pilot, and 1977 Le Mans...