Assembled collector's model that reproduces the version of the Martini International Racing team's Porsche 917K that won the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Additional details for the
Porsche 917K diecast model car:
- Manufactured by Norev in 1/18 scale with reference DIE-59795 (also listed as 3551091875888 and 187588).
- Belongs to the Martini International Racing Team.
- Recreation of the vehicle racing at the 24 Hours Le Mans in 1971.
- Includes metal parts, plastic parts and rubber parts.
- Limited edition.
- Package measures 330 mm x 145 mm x 165 mm (width x depth x height), weighting 1188 g.
- Box barcode 3551091875888 (GTIN/EAN)
- Featured in newsletter 645.
The Porsche brand, and its ambitious head of development Ferdinand Piéch, had finally managed to win at Le Mans in 1970. Along with the win, Porsche also dominated the world sports car championship with the revised version of the 917K.
The following year, Porsche returned to Le Mans in full force. Of the 49 participants, 33 were vehicles from the Zuffenhausen brand, including three 917Ks, three 917LHs and the new and unique 917/20.
Always on the lookout for new ideas and technologies to reduce weight, Porsche had built a prototype with a magnesium tubular chassis, dressed it in Martini colours, and put two drivers at the controls who were not only extremely fast, but also particularly kind to the vehicle. These drivers were Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep, and driving the number 22 Porsche 917K they came to the finish line as winners after completing a whopping 397 laps. This meant setting the record for the distance travelled with 5,335.313 kilometres, a record that had to wait 39 years for it to be broken by an Audi R15 TDI in 2010.
To round off Porsche's success in 1971, another Porsche 917K, driven by Herbert Müller and Richard Attwood, finished the race in second place.
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Norev is a well-known die-cast model brand specializing in the production of scale models, which are miniature replicas of real vehicles. The French company has been in the business since the 1950s, founded by the Véron brothers in Villeurbanne in 1946, and named after their family name spelled backwards. Since then, the brand has built a reputation for the quality and detail of its scale reproductions.
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