Monday 24th October 2011

Video: Porsche 962 At Laguna Seca

The Rennsport Reunion IV provides another tasty treat

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It's rare to see a Porsche 962 at speed, but you could have seen just that at Laguna Seca the other weekend when Mark Hotchkiss gave a veteran of Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring a run out at the Rennsport Reunion.

And now you can see it again right here on PistonHeads, thanks to YouTube and the full complement of in- and on-car cams rigged up to record the spectacle. Monday mornings don't get a lot better than this!

[alexpa]

Awesome! Gotta love group C

[legalknievel]

Amazing. And the car is immaculate!

[Caractacus]

Superb footage and sound. Mmmmm.

Just made my Monday morning sooo much better.

[Oddball RS]

Ain't progress a great thing...............................

[Maldini35]

Wonderful - you can actually FEEL the power.

It amused me to see the 911 driver out brake himself into the corkscrew trying to stay with the 962.

My all time favourite racer.

[YAHOO]

Fantastic

[xcat]

Good to see them 'giving it some'. having read the reports etc. on here, I thought it was parade laps... glad to see it wasn't. How nice looking was that Gulf coloured 911

[Knightmorph]

Quite shocking to see how a 25-30 year old race car makes modern GT2 RS (Race edidtions) look like they are missing a few gears/turbo's.....the difference in pace on the track is staggering!

[bosscerbera]

Fabulous video! Astonishing speed compared with the modern prototypes.

Oddball RS said:

Ain't progress a great thing...............................

There was a terrific race at the Spa 6 Hours last month, the Trans-Atlantic Prototype Challenge, that pitched Group C, Can Am and GT1 cars against one another in the same race - kind of like the ultimate pub argument settler. The longtail '97 Mclaren F1 won in the end but not before all of us had seen it dropped by 40 year old Mclaren M8s on the straights. Awesome spectacle.

See the incar from about 4:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC74l1g8qo8

[Oddball RS]

bosscerbera said:

There was a terrific race at the Spa 6 Hours last month, the Trans-Atlantic Prototype Challenge, that pitched Group C, Can Am and GT1 cars against one another in the same race - kind of like the ultimate pub argument settler. The longtail '97 Mclaren F1 won in the end but not before all of us had seen it dropped by 40 year old Mclaren M8s on the straights. Awesome spectacle.

See the incar from about 4:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC74l1g8qo8

Great link

[pagani1]

Brilliant footage and a really blast for a monday. Now where did i put my lottery ticket?

[3doorPete]

Cracking video - went out immaculate and yet was nearly rubbing paint in a couple of places.

[ktm301p]

Brown Pants moment at 3:38

[s1nful]

Very Squeeky Bum moment...

[muppet42]

Nothing like the sound of fluttering turbo's to create a good soundtrack for a video

[Arenki]

962s were before my time, but I didn't expect it to be eating modern prototypes. Hell of a car!

[Matt Harper]

alexpa said:

Awesome! Gotta love group C

IMSA GTP - not Group C, I believe.

[Verde]

Brilliant footage. 1080P is amazing. I was there for the Reunion (I live in the CA Bay Area and it's a 90 mile drive or so). So many amazing nods to history that it was a bit overwhelming. Even the parking lots were a bit of a hoot (below). But thanks for the Monday morning wakeup call.

[rathur]

i was there, it was very very cool indeed.

[ANF11]

Brilliant! Saw the 1987 LeMans winning 962 recently at the Lonford Revival (Tassies answer to the Goodwood Revival - in it's first year and a long way to go yet....), Porsche bought out the rolling museum. These cars are unbelievable in the flesh.
Good to see he was not hanging around either!