RE: Spotted: Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion

[Kaizer]

Top Gear CLK GTR RoadTest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRQsfTUw80U&fea...

Edited by Kaizer on Monday 6th August 22:55

[nsmith1180]

melvster said:

Incredible car, if i was in the position to buy such a car, i think this would be my choice.




http://www.anamera.com/en/detail/car/183093/index....

I am 100% with you there.

[BelfastBoy]

pwrc said:

i'd go for the clk-gtr street version

+1! Equally rare, expensive, impractical, but so much better looking and sounding.

[soad]

Sweet car almighty...probably the ultimate Porsche!

[marshall100]

Wasn't the CLk tested on fith gear/topgear once?

Be happy with either to be honest, warts an all.

[j_s14a]

They did a roofless CLK GTR too

[ilovevolvo]

Many years ago i worked for a porsche racing team in the european le mans series we did a race at the 12 hour of daytona usa the next garage was a team with two Gt1's One of the cars came into the pits and a small fire soon started from back (the team could not see it until i thought i had better tell them...

They sounded amazing i wonder how many are used on the road these days

Russ

[digger_R]

SWoll said:

No need for the sarcasm... Not a fan of big bling wheels here either but can see his point regarding the wheels/tyres looking a bit lost in those arches.

Stunning car, but would personally take a Carrera GT as my favourite Porsche of all time.

This looks even more impressive in the flesh than a Carrera GT, IMO it was one of the most stunning vehicles at the Porka museum in Stuttgart (at least in 2008 when I was last there).

[johnnymaestro]

j_s14a said:

They did a roofless CLK GTR too

Note the silencers.

[Crook]

johnnymaestro said:

Note the silencers.

Is/was in Brooklands museum in Weybridge.

[Jag-D]

nsmith1180 said:

melvster said:

Incredible car, if i was in the position to buy such a car, i think this would be my choice.




http://www.anamera.com/en/detail/car/183093/index....

I am 100% with you there.

100%!

[chevronb37]

Was fortunate to see the 911 GT1s racing in the FIA GT Championship and the British domestic equivalent. Still recall with great fondness the Blue Coral car of John Greasley heading up Clay Hill at Oulton Park with a vivid burst of flame out of the exhausts on every upchange. They were fabulous machines and among the most dramatic I've seen at Oulton. The 1997 Silverstone round was quite something as well. Most of the privateer Porsches knocked each other out of contention but eventually McLaren (I think chassis #23R) won out in appalling conditions. By coincidence, I bumped into that McLaren in Canada at the Mont Tremblant circuit last year.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll court controversy by stating that I find the road versions don't interest me in any way. To use on track, why not buy a pukka race version with period competition history? For road use, I'm sure a more conventional supercar would be superior in every way. They filled the brief of meeting homologation, but it's worth remembering that the 911 GT1 opened the door to the CLK-GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 which turned the existing, exciting GT1 scene into a spending war which imploded within two years.

[gaz1234]

would still have mc f1 over both the clk and gt1

[anonymous-user]

That is immense. If I had the beans the only question would be this or the 959? Luckily not a decision I'll have to make.

[Schnellmann]

From memory the road tests at the time were not that positive, stating that it was not that great to drive on the road (and completely impractical).

Interesting from an historical perspective but one for collectors only (and not to drive).

[lindrup119]

will_ said:

Second part of the link appears to be to the Bitter for £6k?

haha i saw that as well, bit random...

[BelfastBoy]

Schnellmann said:

From memory the road tests at the time were not that positive, stating that it was not that great to drive on the road (and completely impractical).

Interesting from an historical perspective but one for collectors only (and not to drive).

Exactly. I specifically remember a feature in Performance Car that stated that the 'Strassenversion' was great fun on the track but little fun to drive in real world conditions. From memory, the PC journalist (possibly Richard Meaden) also crashed the car on track and caused some damage - nothing major but still, given the exotic materials used, a costly enough prang.

[Numeric]

I fully confess and perhaps it's cos it is so my era that the 959 for me is the greatest of all time (yeah ok I'll have the Carerra GT if I must) but I just adore the whole do Paris Dakar, Le Mans and Tesco with effectively the same (if modded to the gunnals) car.

I used to see a few 959 about and they just sat in traffic good as gold!

That takes real genius!

[iva cosworth]

Crook said:

johnnymaestro said:

Note the silencers.

Is/was in Brooklands museum in Weybridge.

Wrong.......Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands

[BallsOfTitanium]

r129sl said:

Indeed, Porsche probably got it all wrong with the wheels and tyres. No surprise really: I mean, what do Porsche know about anything? Presumably they should have sent it to Kahn Design.

HaHaHa