This car competed in the 90 minute long Historic Motor Racing News Gentlemen Drivers GT And Sports Endurance Race at the HSCC's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.
It's Irvine Laidlaw's 1965 Porsche 904/6, and he shared the driving in this race with James Diffey. The original Porsche 904, introduced in 1964 had a 1,966cc flat-four engine but the 1965 car had a variant of the Porsche 911's flat-six engine of 1,991cc. A few cars were built with a flat-eight engine of 1,962cc based on the engine of the 1962 804 F1 car. Irvine Laidlaw's car is chassis 906-012 and was originally a Porsche works car that took part in the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Günter Klass and Dieter Glemser, but it failed to finish, retiring after 16 hours with a broken camshaft.
On 2 May 2015 I showed a photograph of Burkhard von Schenk's Porsche 904/6 that I had taken at Donington Park in 2004.
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