Thursday 7th April 2011

Röhrl Reunited With Legendary San Remo 911 SC

Rally legends meet again for the Targa Tasmania

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You can't go 'home' again. Beware an old flame. If you believe the clichés it seems that, generally speaking, it isn't considered a particularly good idea to revisit your own past. This doesn't seem to be bothering rally hero Walter Röhrl at the moment, however; he is currently reacquainting himself with the 911 SC he took to near-victory in the 1981 San Remo rally precisely 30 years ago.

He and long-time co-driver Christian Geistdörfer are currently tackling the five-day, 2000km Targa Tasmania as one of more than 40 historic Porsches tackling the 500km of 38 competitive stages in the classic section of this year's event.

Röhrl's one-off drive in the 1981 San Remo is more or less worshipped by the most devout bobble-hatters, as he and Geistdörfer almost took a deeply against-the-odds victory against far more powerful and all-wheel-drive competition. Only a broken driveshaft deprived them of taking the win from Michele Mouton's Audi Quattro.

"We only entered that 911 SC in one rally, the San Remo. It was a last-minute thing. Some engineers at Porsche helped prepare this car for me because I was without a drive," recalled Röhrl. "Then more than 25 years later, Porsche informs me this fabulous car has been found in somebody's garage. It has been restored and now we will bring it to the Targa Tasmania in what will be a very special reunion. I am so looking forward to it."

The famous Porsche 911 SC had not raced for 25 years before it was comprehensively restored by the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, and is one of three cars from the company's 'Museum on Wheels' that will be participating in the Classic section of this year's event: The other iconic sports cars competing alongside are the famous 908/02 Spyder (1969 Targa Florio winner) driven by Museum on Wheels curator Klaus Bischof, and the 718 RS 60 Spyder (1960 Targa Florio winner) driven by journalist Bernd Ostmann.

[CliveM]

'Museum on Wheels'
That'll be from a company that cares about cars, rather than flogging caps and keyrings to the gullible.... good on 'em

[Riggers]

CliveM said:

'Museum on Wheels'
That'll be from a company that cares about cars, rather than flogging caps and keyrings to the gullible.... good on 'em

'Cept they do that as well - got to keep the Wolfsburg from the door and all that...

[Chris Stott]

Legendary car + legendary driver = win.

[UltimaCH]

Dunno but give them some more years to get some cash hoarded away and the purchase of Wolfsburg may be finally pulled off

[johnhenry]

'found in someones garage'

WHY CANT I FIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS IN SOMEONES GARAGE!!??

[Turbobanana]

Somehow looks wrong with impact bumpers and a "Ducktail" rear spoiler.

[chazwozza]

Turbobanana said:

Somehow looks wrong with impact bumpers and a "Ducktail" rear spoiler.

Think the car looks lovely. imho. Quite simple almost

[dbanes]

Awesome, as I said in a previous thread Rohrl passed me during Targa(I've done three and the proud owner of a Gold Trophy, I was in a Celica GT4 he was in a 356 or something similar, and it was wet...

If you ever get a chance to do Targa Tasmania don't blink, just say yes, it's like 5 8 hours days at Nürburgring, but with endlessly changing scenery.

[dbanes]

dbanes said:

Awesome, as I said in a previous thread Rohrl passed me during Targa(I've done three and the proud owner of a Gold Trophy, I was in a Celica GT4 he was in a 356 or something similar, and it was wet...

If you ever get a chance to do Targa Tasmania don't blink, just say yes, it's like 5 8 hours days at Nürburgring, but with endlessly changing scenery.

Damn, he's already out, video here.

http://www.sportcom.com.au/targanews/index.php?opt...

Check out the 'Targa Tasmania - Day 2 news package' video at 1:20

[Old Trout]

Big thumbs up for this!

Massive legend in a great car from the motorsport manufacturer. How could it get better?*













Rohrl and Delacors in GT3 RS rally cars in the tarmac WRC events?!!

[bikemonster]

dbanes said:

Awesome, as I said in a previous thread Rohrl passed me during Targa(I've done three and the proud owner of a Gold Trophy, I was in a Celica GT4 he was in a 356 or something similar, and it was wet...

If you ever get a chance to do Targa Tasmania don't blink, just say yes, it's like 5 8 hours days at Nürburgring, but with endlessly changing scenery.

10 posts in as many years. That, sir, is quality lurking!

[J BIRD RACING]

I too prefer the "lighter" look of a road course dressed Porsche; but the combination of this car and driver is impressive.

[lockup]

the article said:

Only a broken driveshaft deprived them of taking the win from Michele Mouton's Audi Quattro.

Ha ha, beaten by a girl!

[pSyCoSiS]

Awesome car.

Sound like a fun event to participate in

[soad]

This guy sure keeps busy, and good on him!

[urquattro]

Super to think the car found, restored and ready to go back rallying, well done all and good luck to WR and co driver, 500kms is a big event.

[Sneaky Schnell]

"We're just going to take one stage at a time and bloody keep going........fast"

[freedman]

Shame he retired early, car looked and sounded lovely

Would like to have seen Bishoffs 908/2, how good must that look on the open road

[Fuelbrother DC]

bikemonster said:

10 posts in as many years. That, sir, is quality lurking!

[Sound of Thunder]

This is worth a watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollt2LY0wsU