1969 Porsche 917K

This car was displayed in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a Porsche 917K in the Gulf Oil livery of John Wyer's JW Automotive Engineering team which campaigned with the cars in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The cars won many events in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1970 and 1971 seasons, but a three-car team entered at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in both those years resulted in in five retirements with just a second place in the 1971 race to show for their efforts. This car appears to be chassis #013/034 which was then owned by Mark Finburgh. During the filming of the Steve McQueen film 'Le Mans' the car was crashed and damaged to such an extent that the original chassis 013 had to be replaced by a new chassis 034. The 917 was powered by a flat-12 engine, originally of 4½ litres, later increased to 4.9 litres and then to 5 litres.