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Porsche s racing heritage in the 30 years before the 956, from the first gmund coupes of 1951, through the iconic 917s of the early 70s, to the indyengined 93681 le mans car of 1981. I saw a you tube where some guy raised the spoiler with a 9v battery. Norbert singer played an instrumental role in all 16 overall victories won by both the works and customer teams at le mans with the racing sports cars of. I was once commissioned to do a piece on norbert singer, his whole career, in 2000 words and that included two 200word boxouts. June 14 1970, norbert singer was a member of the porsche team that won the le mans 24h for the 1st outright time. So i decided that i would copy the stereo install done by singer on their 911. The 962 went on to become one of the top prototypes of all time with win records that went unequaled until the arrival of the audi r8. To read all about the incredible work singer perform on tired porsche 964s, pick up a copy of total 911 issue 109 for our behindthescenes look at their californian. Porsche curves, maison blanche, ford chicane, and youre done.

For decades, few names have been more closely associated with the 24 hours of le mans than that of porsche racing engineer norbert singer. The 964 deck lidspoiler is off the car and i need to raise the 964 spoiler to swap the spoilers for painting. Gallery porsche racing by norbert singer speedhunters. Tg takes a look inside the workings of the worlds coolest car company. Singers latest porsche restoration is a sensuous blur. Landmark birthdays ahead for two porsche engineering legends.

Zuffenhausen star norbert singer was used as a consultant for the aero bits. Norbert singer doing the homework 1982 sweeping the podium is a great moment. Dec 27, 2017 this singer reimagined porsche 911 is based on a 964series with a modern driveline, vintage good looks, and an aircooled 400horsepower flat six. Norbert singer mister le mans for decades, there has hardly been any name more closely associated with the 24 hours of le mans than that of porsche racing engineer norbert singer. Nov 10, 2015 singer vehicle design exclusivity may now be more attainable as point of entry begins with background story one more than 10. Championship winning porsche race cars, the engineers who designed them, and the men who drove them to victories around the world will be reunited around the track for porsche rennsport reunion vi rrvi at weathertech raceway laguna seca near monterey, california, september 2730. So, norbert singers 40year career at porsche had to be condensed into 1600 words, and when i told herr singer at the start of the interview, he laughed. Tommy parry 3 comments decked out in the iconic rothmans livery, possessing 650 horsepower, and capable of 240 miles an hour, this gleaming porsche 962 should give chris harris plenty of reason to grin. A collaboration with the crew at williams f1, the singer 964 makes radical performance gains over the base model. Evolution of the porsche 911 in competition 19652010.

Since then, he was involved in every one of the manufacturers 16 le mans victories. These are not off the shelf units with the engines benefiting from. Norbert singer s vehicles also earned more than a dozen titles in the american imsa series. Nov 14, 2017 singers new 500 hp absinthe porsche 911 is the ultimate aircooled restomod. Singer and williams advanced engineering unveil porsche 964. Porsche has won the classic le mans race 16 times, well ahead of legendary marques ferrari with nine victories, jaguar with seven, bentley. May 24, 2014 crankandpiston sits down with norbert singer yes, the norbert singer to discuss porsche, porsche at le mans, porsche at daytona, porsche sportscars, porsche aerodynamics, and porsche mission 2014. Thats from when i engineered a production carrera gt to the closedcourse speed record at talladega superspeedway, with david donohue, jay leno, norbert singer and a team of porsche. Under the direction of a man called norbert singer, the porsche engineers designed an aluminium monocoque chassis, which replaced the outdated tubular trellis frame, used in the 936.

Porsche classic originale 01 animated publication to maximize your viewing experience of this digital magazine, we recommend installing adobe flash player plugin. Could the singer dls be the greatest porsche 911 ever made. Porsche announces legendary cars, drivers, engineers for. Singer vehicle design is driven by the singular vision of rob dickinson an ex car designer who then became a rock musician who now stands as one of the worlds foremost distillers of the essence of air cooled porsche. What do the porsche 917, 935, 936, 956, 962 c, wsc spyder and 911 gt1 98 all have in common. Porsche s first turbo at le mans part two from the perspective of norbert singer, who was given the responsibility of making the new porsche 911 carrera rsr turbo competitive, there were a number of serious obstacles to overcome, mostly concerning contravening the laws of.

Williams worked on balancing the weight of this 911 as much as possible, moving the engine forward slightly and relocating other components to the front trunk. Special porsche feliciteert jarige veteraan norbert singer, mister. Two men who were instrumental in the transition of the porsche 956 to the 962 were jurgen barth and norbert singer. Nov 14, 2017 singer and williams also worked with norbert singer despite the name, he has no relation to singer vehicle design the man behind countless porsche le mans wins, on optimizing the aero on. Jun 22, 2015 the porsche 956 was developed by porsche and engineer norbert singer at the automakers motorsport facility in weissach, germany, using a thenunique aerodynamic principle known as ground effects to boost downforce. Out of respect for porsche, and to respect porsches trademark rights, this incredible machine should never under any circumstances be referred to or described as a singer, singer 911, singer porsche 911 or a porsche singer 911, or in. Norbert singer is one porsche s most brilliant innovators and someone i have always wanted to meet. Singer, singing, and success with rob dickinson total 911. Singer and the porsche 911 brings the reader as close to these beautiful machines as one can get, excepting the lucky few who own one. He developed the 911 for racing, creating the 935 and 936s, and designed the bodywork for the 956 and 962 group c cars, which.

Singer will build 75 bespoke units at a facility on williams campus. However, in november 2017 it announced that it was working with williams in the uk as well as former porsche engineers norbert singer and hans mezger. Weve gathered more than 3 million images uploaded by our users and sorted them by the most popular ones. Norbert singer was an engineer at porsche, and his first job was to provide an engineering solution to cool the gearboxes on the 917.

The seller references rsr inspiration, but the modern rocker decals, the oversize fuchs, modernized headlights, and articulated wing are all singer signatures. Joest copy of the 93578, this car ran mostly in the us so far i know. Chris harris meets norbert singer and tests a le manswinning 962 482018 4. The young norbert singer, just a couple of years into his porsche career, had been given his first project to manage towards the end of 72. Chris harris meets norbert singer and tests a le mans. Porsche engineering legends norbert singer and hans mezger each lent their own expertise to the project as well, while racer marino franchitti and automotive journalist chris harris served as development drivers alongside williamss own team.

Porsche stars will gather at rennsport reunion vi in monterey. Singer 911 style radio install 1969e pelican parts forums. Norbert singer played an instrumental role in all 16 overall victories won by both the works and customer teams at le mans with the racing sports. It got the original door covers, therefore it looks better. This section includes the likes of norbert singer and roland. The name singer vehicle design pays homage to noted porsche engineer norbert singer as well as acknowledging dickinsons previous career as a vocalist. Works porsche 956 the definitive history, is the most comprehensive account of porsche s fabulous 956 race car. The success of the 956 changed the landscape of prototype sports cars. Porsche feliciteert jarige veteranen hans mezger en norbert singer.

Porsche congratulates engineering legends norbert singer. Hier erzahlt er eine kurze geschichte zur entwicklung des 911 rsr. The product of singers painstaking effort is a porsche 911 restored and reimagined by singer. The work it performs on classic aircooled 911s is second to none. Join facebook to connect with norbert porsche and others you may know. Porsche is all rear wing and spoiler sometimes in the wind tunnel at porsche s weissach testing centre, race director norbert singer, gives us his choice of the best rear wings and spoilers on. Le manswinning porsche 956 going to auction at goodings. Watch and listen as this singerbuilt porsche 911 struts its. Out back the 1969 911e, in bahama yellow, that represents genesis for singer had been carefully manoeuvred into position. He has played a key role in every one of porsches 16 overall race victories.

Porsche motorsport master celebrates 80th birthday. The 911 carrera rsr made its first appearance in november, on the rally of corsica, and less than two months later it was given a debut win in the american 24hour classic. The 956s creation and development, led by norbert singer and his team, through the design stages and wind tunnel models that resulted in. The ultimate porsche comes from california by singrwadm in newsmedia when rob dickinson, the lead singer for 90s british rock band catherine wheel, moved to hollywood in the early aughts, he drove a 1969 porsche 911 that he lovingly dubbed the brown bombera classic car he restored to serve as a lightweight daily driver. Singer williams porsche engine details, specs, performance. Singer vehicle design is coming out with a book that offers a closer look at some of the companys beautiful creations. Singer porsche 964 singer has never tackled a porsche as recent as the 964, built from 1989 to 1994.

In those three minutes my concentration was sharp as a knife. Norbert singer, the legendary porsche motorsport engineer who ran the companys le mans program for decades helped with the aero. Apparently, norbert singer gets asked if this is his company. Porsche is all rear wing and spoiler sometimes daily record. Norbert singer s team jacket 1971 norbert singer is a motorsport legend with sixteen overall victories at le mans. When the singer led the band motor sport magazine archive. Twee porscheveteranen vieren in november hun verjaardag. He said he knew i wasnt big on german cars, but he told me about his idea to build ultimate 911s.

The porsche 956 was a group c sportsprototype racing car designed by norbert singer and built by porsche in 1982 for the fia world sportscar championship. No list on the aircooled porsche community would be complete without mentioning the mastermind behind singer vehicle design, the firm thats creating of. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Aug 04, 2017 singer only restores 19891994 porsche 964s purchased and registered by the owners, and if you worry that there wont be any stock ones out there by the time youd buy one, have no fear. Im doing a back date hot rod project with a 1983 sc steel wide body coupe. He has played a key role in every one of porsche s 16 overall race victories between 1970 and 1998 at the 24 hours of le mans. Its no coincidence that singer is a name now known for a certain type of 911s. Nov 14, 2017 singer and williams team up to create lightweight porsche 911 restorations. Singer vehicle designs porsche 911 ebay motors blog. Heres how singer restores and beautifies the porsche 911. Singer was born in eger cheb, part of nazi germanys sudetenland, in 1939.

We intend to prove to the world in the next two years that were not onetrick ponies, but singer will remain very porschecentric, he says. Norbert singers nomination for the greatest motorsport. Of the 19 overall porsche victories at the french motorsport classic since 1970, 16 have involved singer s direct involvement. The forewords are written by two figures who have been central to the story of the 911 in competition, jurgen barth and norbert singer. American lemans magazine writeup for reisercallas rennsport one of tonys greatest heros norbert singer porsche germany tony servicing the roock motorsport germany gt2 at lemans 1997 roock motorsport germany lemans 1998 reisercallas rennsport at the sebring 12 hr race in 2001 with joel reiser, hurley haywood and craig stanton tony. Twelve current professional porsche race drivers also will be at the track, including patrick long, earl bamber, timo bernhard and the 2018 24 hours of le mans gte prowinning trio of kevin estre, laurens vanthoor and michael christensen. I am thrilled to join him in monterey for rennsport iv as cogrand marshal, said seinfeld. Seinfeld joins norbert singer as porsche rennsport reunion. As we prepared for the singer house party on our second day in monterey, porsche 911s reimagined by singer were arriving and being positioned around the house ready for the evening event.

So, norbert singer s 40year career at porsche had to be condensed into 1600 words, and when i told herr singer at the start of the interview, he laughed. Singers new 500 hp absinthe porsche 911 is the ultimate air. This is singer and williamss lightweight, 500hp wildly. Smith 2015, hardcover at the best online prices at.

Cool collections of singer porsche wallpaper for desktop, laptop and mobiles. Porsche greats jurgen barth and norbert singer discuss the car that won so much in the 1980s and even into the 90s the porsche 962. Nov 15, 2017 heres how singer restores and beautifies the porsche 911. I located the exact sirius reciever and began installing it in my car. Singer porsche creators of the ultimate porsche 911s. Nov 14, 2017 in addition to singer and williams, firms such as brembo, michelin, and bbs motorsport got involved. Driven by stefan bellof in 1983, this car holds the alltime record for the fastest vehicle ever. Well, it is unfair unless your name is scott blattner, the customer who asked singer vehicle design to implement lightweighting and highperformance enhancements on his 1990 porsche 964. Norbert is 75 now, and lives not far from zuffenhausen, the northern suburb of stuttgart that is home to porsche. Mar 08, 2019 two men who were instrumental in the transition of the porsche 956 to the 962 were jurgen barth and norbert singer. As an engineer with an instant love for the porsche 911 and 917 since 1970, i found this book to answer many questions, almost a dream come true. Singer s latest porsche 911 has the most amazingly retro interior weve ever seen contrasting the orange targa is a gunmetal gray coupe thats rather understated. With the formerly used porsche 936s corresponding the class 6 regulations, porsche had to build a completely new car for the group c.

Norbert singer born 16 november 1939 is a german automotive engineer. Works porsche 956 the definitive history porsche road. Mister le mans and the creative spirit porsche newsroom. The companys motto is everything is important, a reference to their design philosophy in which no aspect of the car is overlooked and even the smallest details are enhanced. That edition had won quick acclaim and sold out just as quick. See if you can guess if theres a theme to this interview psst, did we mention that this was the norbert singer. So we decided to give you the ultimate guide to singer porsche and this is it right here. Even if your bookshelf is bending under the weight of stacks of other 917 books, this one is. Porsche ag has been responsible for porsche s most successful race cars and engines for more than three decades. Singer and the porsche 911 book photo gallery autoblog.

They will among more than 50 famous porsche people at the reunion, according to the event organizers. He has played a key role in every one of porsches 16 overall race victories between 1970 and 1998 at the 24 hours of le mans. Meeting singers tribute to the porsche 911 autocar. Why am i telling you this, it is because these limits do not apply in 000, the story is the story, and it will end when the story has been told. Singer founder, rob dickinson, is one of the many norbert singer superfans. He was race engineer at porsche motorsports and the driving force behind many enduring developments still playing out today. Porsche congratulates engineering legends norbert singer and hans mezger on their milestone birthday. Due to ferdinand porsche s unique design, the sports car is affectionately called butzis masterpiece and many still count it among the most appealing road racing cars ever. If i ever meet norbert, i probably owe him a huge apology. Most will be familiar with singer vehicle designs modifications to classic porsche 911s by now.

For the porsche racing and history buffs, there is a nice articleinterview with norbert singer in the october issue of excellence. Porsche announces legendary cars, drivers, engineers for rennsport reunion vi 09062018. Singer and williams also worked with norbert singer despite the name, he has no relation to singer vehicle design the man behind countless porsche le mans wins, on optimizing the aero on blattners 964 restoration using computational fluid dynamics cfd. Jun 01, 2006 norbert singer deserves praises for this book. You may know rob as the singer of the band catherine wheel, but hes also a car guy. Barth was the man who brokered the deal with imsa founder john bishop to allow the 962 to race in the popular camel gt series in the gtp class. That sebring victory in the lmp2 class was the first for a car outside the top prototype class in 14 years. The 956s creation and development, led by norbert singer and his team, through the design stages and wind tunnel models that resulted in prototype construction and testing at porsche s weissach track. Oct 15, 2018 every singerrestored car is an incomparable work of impeccable craftsmanship. Aug 15, 20 he was up there with his hot rodded 911. The porsche 956 was developed by porsche and engineer norbert singer at the automakers motorsport facility in weissach, germany, using a thenunique aerodynamic principle known as ground effects to boost downforce. Californiabased singer vehicle design is one of the bestknown names in the world of porsche enthusiasts and collectors. Singer vehicle design restores the german sports car to exquisite levels.

The result is a classicshaped 911, still based on the 964, that has had every detail analysed and optimised using stateoftheart engineering techniques, right down to the 2. The 904, its full name porsche 904 carrera gts, was a special porsche model in many ways. Singer and the porsche 911 new book perfect holiday gift for porsche 911 fans. Nov 28, 2017 2017 porsche 911 by singer vehicle design. Sep 12, 2019 the 956s creation and development, led by norbert singer and his team, through the design stages and wind tunnel models that resulted in prototype construction and testing at porsches weissach track. Norbert singer celebrated the last overall victory of his active career at le mans in 1998, where the two works porsche 911 gt1 cars, equipped with a carbon fibre monocoque, celebrated a double victory. He exposes enough detail with engineering language, illustrations, and anecdotes that you begin to feel like a porsche insider. A great many of derek bells racing achievements were achieved while behind the wheel of a porsche racing car and for this reason, it was perhaps inevitable that derek bell all my porsche races, would one day be committed to print, highlighting his extraordinarily successful career. Singers new 911 restoration packs 500 hp into lightweight body. No, im not a porsche guy so to speak, but i will say theyre one of the most important sports cars ever made.