![]() Gerry discovered the evidence of the brake problem. ![]() Porsche had fixed the body for display but had never done a full restoration, so they didn't notice that. When he disassembled it, he found that the right front brake pads were down to bare metal and showed evidence of having welded themselves to the brake rotor. Years later, Gerry Sutterfield restored the car for the factory museum. He said that under braking at Arnage, the car suddenly turned right into the guard rail, but nobody believed him, and he was blamed. ![]() Reinhold Joest was driving when it crashed while about to go into the lead. Incidentally, there's an interesting story about how the 917/20 later figured in the 24-hour race. Can anyone verify exactly how it finished (and who drove it)? In The Racing Porsches, Paul Frere writes that it won. In Porsche, Excellence Was Expected, Karl Ludvigsen writes that it retired with an electrical problem. My question is, how did it do in that race? At that point, the car was white and carried number 20. ![]() The Porsche 917/20 (known during the 24-hour race as "The Pink Pig") made its debut at the Le Mans test weekend in April 1971 and was driven in a three-hour (some say four-hour) race then and there by Willi Kauhsen (same say Gijs van Lennep co-drove). ![]()
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