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Each month, Panorama magazine brings you the best from the world
of Porsche. Races, vintage car shows, technical articles, we cover
it all!
At Panorama, we never have room for all the pictures we'd like
to
share with our readers. Here are some photos that just wouldn't
fit
into the magazine this month.
The March photo gallery features pictures of a selection of Daytona
24-hour overall winners from Porsche. Kevin Buckler and his Racers
Group team brought Porsche its first outright victory at Daytona
since 1995, scoring the 20th triumph for Zuffenhausen at the Florida
classic. This month's Panorama Gallery offers a look at some of
the other
Porsche 24-Hour winners shot by Leonard Turner.
We refer you to the magazine for even more articles. How do you
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The Kreepy Krauly Porsche-powered March 83G was no stranger
to victory on the Camel GT tour, having carried Al Holbert
to the 1983 driving champion-ship. In Kreepy Krauly colors,
Sarel van der Merve, Tony Martin and Graham Duxbury piloted
it to the first ever Porsche GTP Daytona 24-hour win,
ironically beating the winning 935 from 1983 in the process.
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Porsche's 917 in the form of the John Wyer Gulf entries
were dominant in 1970 and 1971, driver Pedro Rodriguez
scoring a "double," first with Leo Kinnunen as his
teammate in 1970 and again with Jackie Oliver the
following year.
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A worthy successor to the 935 was Porsche's
IMSA GT prototype, the 962, which won three straight
24-hHour races between 1985 and 1987. This is the
1986 victor, the Lowenbrau example of Al Holbert,
Derek Bell and Al Unser, Jr.
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During the latter part of the 1970s
and early 1980s, the benchmark Porsche IMSA racer
was the 935, the Interscope team example of Ted Field,
Danny Ongais and Hurley Haywood providing Porsche
with its second straight Daytona 24 Hour triumph in
1979.
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1995 - Jürgen Lassig, Marco Werner, Giovanni Lavaggi
and Christophe Bouchut drove the most unusual Porsche
winner at Daytona, the open-cockpit Kremer 962 which
most thought would be uncompetitive against its
faster Ferrari opposition. The car and the quartet
proved that durability can triumph over outright
speed.
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The swan song for the 935 came in 1983 when
A. J. Foyt joined the Swap Shop crew of Preston
Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena to best
a wet 24-hour field in a car constructed in
California by the Andial organization without
benefit of blueprints.
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Tire maker BF Goodrich joined the Miller Brewing
Company to back the 1989 first place finisher of John
Andretti, Bob Wollek and Derek Bell. The victory was
one of three garnered by the BFG 962 during its time
on the IMSA Camel GT tour.
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1973 - Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood surprised the
Daytona field, posting the first ever overall World
Championship of Makes victory for a production 911
with their 2.7 liter Brumos Carrera RSR.
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2003 - Porsche returns to victory lane at Daytona:
Kevin Buckler, Michael Schrom, Jörg Bergmeister
and Timo Bernhard and their Racers Group 911 GT3
RS score the overall win at Florida's twice-around-the-clock
marathon, beating both the GTS and Daytona Prototype
divisions in the process.
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Check out the March issue of Panorama for all the details
on this year's Daytona 24-hour classic, a story on the making
of the Fabcar Porsche prototype, the first pictures of the
production version of the Carrera GT supercar and more.
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