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Written by Ollie Marriage
A paddock full of legends. The cars we all recognise of course, but the drivers, well, they"ve changed. It"s been 45 years since Gijs van Lennep won the Targa Florio in a Porsche 911 RSR, 47 since he won Le Mans in a Porsche 917 KH. And yet at Goodwood people nudge their children when he strolls amiably past, while the bolder come up proferring posters and pens. Manfred Schurti is here too. His place in my personal firmament of racing drivers is assured simply because he drove the infamous Porsche 935 Moby Dick" (my favourite race car of all time, and a fantasy I got to fulfil a few years ago) to 8th place at the 1978 Le Mans. Porsche was celebrating its 70th anniversary at the Festival of Speed this year, and in turn the Festival was celebrating its 25th. It"s easy to dismiss FoS as the same thing every year: same cars, same faces, different sculpture, but this year felt somehow more uplifting.
Date written: 20 Jul 2018
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A paddock full of legends. The cars we all recognise of course, but the drivers, well, they"ve changed. It"s been 45 years since Gijs van Lennep won the Targa Florio in a Porsche 911 RSR, 47 since he won Le Mans in a Porsche 917 KH. And yet at Goodwood people nudge their children when he strolls amiably past, while the bolder come up proferring posters and pens. Manfred Schurti is here too. His place in my personal firmament of racing drivers is assured simply because he drove the infamous Porsche 935 Moby Dick" (my favourite race car of all time, and a fantasy I got to fulfil a few years ago) to 8th place at the 1978 Le Mans. Porsche was celebrating its 70th anniversary at the Festival of Speed this year, and in turn the Festival was celebrating its 25th. It"s easy to dismiss FoS as the same thing every year: same cars, same faces, different sculpture, but this year felt somehow more uplifting.
Date written: 20 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12628