Le Mans: the Porsche Success Story - Episode 2

When a fabled motorsport event and one of the greatest car marques meet, special things happen. At Le Mans, Porsche has created moments that will last forever. In the second of six stories from Porsche Museum, as told by real legends, we head to 1971. This was the year that the Porsche 917 KH (kurzheck or ‘short-tail’) roared to a notable victory.
Timo Bernhard, Le Mans winner and endurance champion, gets the lowdown on a remarkable racing car with Norbert Singer, who served as Porsche race engineer from 1969 to 2004. Norbert tells us how Porsche engineering ingenuity helped the 917 KH, arguably the greatest Porsche racing car ever, break a landmark record that lasted for nearly four decades.
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[@mick4659]

NO car in this universe reach the beauty of the 917 K. This car is timeless.

[@mineralwater6736]

ferrari 250 gto?

[@thm1597]

Norbert Singer - eine lebende Legende! Bitte mehr Interviews mit Timo!

[@Old.Man_1969]

917.... Great Respect!!

[@roland2879]

Norbert Singer, one of Porsche's biological memories at Le Mans. What a treat to listen to him talk about this wonderful adventure, I never tire of it.

[@Patmofar]

The greatest generation of engineers, Norbert Singer, Hans Mezger, who designed and built the greatest car ever made which was driven by the greatest drivers, Dr. Helmut Marko and Jonkheer Gijs van Lennep who set a distance record in it in 1971 which stood for over four decades. The great Pedro Rodriguez won the 1970 Brands Hatch 1000km by an astonishing five laps in a 917K despite being penalised by one lap for missing a yellow flag during the race.

[@Mark.G475]

I love these back ground stories. I still have my Toy Corgi car 917 in blue and one in red from the early 1970s. Mark in Milwaukee 🍻🇺🇸

[@thedriftmc]

My favourite Porsche of all time. I sincerely hope the new Le Mans Hypercar IS being modelled on this.

[@paulmcdonald9592]

Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories, Mr. Singer.

[@rapier84]

Norbert Singer is a legend, the 917, 936, 935/78 and GT1. So many great cars!

[@ProfDrDrThomasJRosemann]

Deutsche Ingenieurskunst, sympathisch, bescheiden und informativ präsentiert. Wunderbar!

[@TherealLorinser]

Arguably the most iconic moment of Porsche at the time.

[@spinister4357]

Legendary race car!

[@Snow_OwL217]

Der schönste unter den Schönen der 917.

[@elcasho]

I've never paused so many times to look at each photo and each subtitle. But I loved every minute of it!

[@denisdilberovic8104]

What design and what a sound of 917...Porsche your next hypercar must look similar and sound like 917....art on the wheels 👍

[@loki7641]

Ein einmaliges Gefühl , dabei gewesen zu sein ... 1970 erster Gesamt - Sieg ... 2017 letzter Sieg - Danke Timo Gruss aus Canada !

[@jitinvp3358]

This is so inspirational! Still dream of working in motorsports with Porsche

[@mogelkaiser1876]

Can we talk about that theres just a 911 gt1, a 919 and the first ever 917 are just chilling in the background? 🥵😳

[@hgdmagirus]

Einfach nur klasse die Interiews von Timo und seinen Gästen, insbesondere Norbert Singer, Walter Röhl und Striezel. Bitte gerne mehr davon.

[@Andrew-vx2ls]

Great unpretentious interview of a legend by Timo. Thank you. The museum is also well worth visiting folks.

[@miguelsolaz7617]

I LOVE this machine

[@StinkenderStock]

Schönstes Auto der welt

[@bravofoxable]

I feel blessed to have seen one in the metal... Icon indeed 👍🏻

[@georgesschuppisser2575]

Was für ein geniales Zeit Dokument. Wunderschön interpretiert und dokumentiert , vielen dank dafür. Georges Schuppisser Schweiz

[@epluribusunum3294]

I really like videos like this. It's like a free German lesson. Thanks Porsche.

[@jashargubetini2477]

Amazing stories, this is like visiting a museum right here, if not better.

[@motomaya1308]

Fabulous story about history. It was a pleasure to hear it. I felt like in a museum. Thank you.

[@robertotriulzi331]

Urca Urca che meraviglia SPETTACOLARE GRAZIE

[@mosca3289]

Wonderful

[@hardcoreep]

Love this channel. This is how OEM content should be made.

[@robinschlosser2842]

Grandios 👌🏻 bitte mehr. Wenn ich jetzt noch parallel an den Herrn Kauhsen denke bekomme ich das Grinsen nicht ausm Gesicht 😄

[@FastCarsFR]

Magnificent !

[@bwm999]

Wonderful video. More please 😎

[@Clyne-mt7do]

the walking talking Porsche encyclopedia... Such a smart guy.

[@sebastianm.8383]

wasn't Ferdinand Piech the responsible head of dept. at Porsche when they homologated the 917 ?

[@chrisbenoit2342]

porsche meilleur voiture au monde

[@user-bi8se3wt8g]

Wow .jaguar xj13 design good 👍 porsche 917 legend design good 👍 Make please 🙏

[@linodhesandu8791]

BEST

[@signorpippistrello]

Steht in 1/43 in meiner Vitrine, zusammen mit einem Marko Autogramm!

[@jimmy5353]

The ten people dislike this video because the English subtitle cannot be turned off.

[@OhItsThat]

I wish they’d do something like this on the 935.

[@lacovoj6874]

for me revelation was when i figured out driving acording to track dispossitions with rev counter.

[@user-bi8se3wt8g]

Hard top convertible make please 🙏

[@hlcepeda]

The development of the 917 brakes was so important to its eventual success. Did the 917-053 race in the 1971 Le Mans with the 1970 specification or 1971 (drilled) specification discs? Die Entwicklung der 917-Bremsen war so wichtig für den späteren Erfolg. Fuhr der 917-053 in Le Mans 1971 mit der Spezifikation von 1970 oder 1971 (gebohrten) Spezifikationsscheiben?

[@kyle_c936]

It had the drilled discs (you might know Porsche called them 'Gruyère' discs, after the holey Swiss cheese) and the discs actually cracked on 917-053 around the holes towards the end of the race. Bringing it in for a disc and pad change would have handed the win to the JW-Gulf 917 running second, two laps down, but since the teams had declared a truce by then (the two 917s were running nose-to-tail with the third-placed Ferrari a long, long way behind), Marko and Van Lennep were able to keep going by braking carefully enough (and eventually hardly even braking at all!) to hold out for the win, their final lap times being around 15 seconds a lap slower than their grid time.

[@user-bi8se3wt8g]

It would be nice if the Panamera continued to be produced and only two other versions of the sedan were made. The design is too few in number. Instead of replacing it with a hardtop convertible, I would like to make it separately.

[@a.c.e.7568]

I wish you could cut the sub-titles in these videos.

[@legenderik1967]

Ok, the Thumbnail could be better!😅

[@vwjetta4138]

800 kilos is by NO means heavy

[@samuelsaezdiaz6990]

Not have sutitles in spanish

[@shanazirk]

Why do Porche , BMW & Audi are scared of F1 ?

[@nirwandam9963]

the budget in F1 is really big, that's is the reason for Porsche works team withdraw at the end of 1962 F1 season.

[@shanazirk]

@@nirwandam9963 it means Mercedes is big than them ... Simple

[@carsforlife1334]

@@shanazirk because most of porsches earnings came from victories at le mans24(hr) so they dont need to enter f1, porsche has 20titles in le mans making them the most successful team to enter that sport were as mercedes only have 2.

[@shanazirk]

@@carsforlife1334 well keep all those here in KZbin ... A prestige in F1 is global pride

[@DrMabors]

@shanazirk Porsche & BMW won F1 championships as engine suppliers

[@jhrodriguez08]

He is very fluent in English why bother with German

[@niosanfrancisco]

Mr. Singer - A one of a kind Porsche Legend. @gt3point2