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Group C Porsche Party

By Serge Vanbockryck For as long as I could remember I’d heard nothing but the best possible comments about the motorsport events that the Duke of Richmond and his team organised each year in Goodw...

Porsche 935/78 ‘Moby Dick’ and Project ‘Typ 935/80’

The Leviathan From 2022 onwards, GT cars in endurance racing will be built to GT3 regulations, which means they’ll be technically less sophisticated than the current GT2-based cars, but above all, ...

Première Night, part 5 - Carbon Brakes, ABS and natural Gas

By Serge Vanbockryck Run from 1982 till 1990, Group C was arguably the most spectacular period in sportscar racing, with a record number of manufacturers involved and spectators attending. To maste...

Première Night, part 4 - PDK and 4WD

By Serge Vanbockryck With the arrival of Group C in 1982, extreme engineering, wandering to and from the boundaries and frontiers of the technically achievable and regulatory permissible, eased off...

Première Night - part 3, by Serge Vanbockryck

Biofuel and Ground Effects The mid-’70s were not only marked by technical innovations, but also by the first global oil crisis. The Western world suddenly realised it was too dependent on oil and s...

Première Night - part 2, by Serge Vanbockryck

Monocoques and wings Defeated in 1952 by a lack of reliability, rather than Mercedes speed,  Jaguar returned with a vengeance in 1953 and with the next big thing in auto racing: the three British G...

Première Night - part 1, by Serge Vanbockryck

For the first time in some years, the 2020 Le Mans 24-Hours will again feature a ‘Garage 56’ entry featuring ‘innovative technology’. But the routes nationales of La Sarthe have always been a non-s...