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Porsche 911 SC/RS - The conquerors of curves

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November 1968, Bastia: Shortly before the start of Tour de Corse, Porsche’s head of race car development, Peter Falk, takes his top works driver Vic Elford aside for a tête-à-tête. “For rallies like this, we need a French driver – who would you take?” “Quick Vic” thought it over. He would like to recommend his good friend Jean-Francois Piot, but he knows an even better driver: “Take Gérard Larrousse.”

Now, they meet again – in Corsica, naturally, for the 17th “Tour de Corse Historique”. Unlike the first time around, they have nothing to prove today – which is why they did not start their #porsche #911scrs vehicles in the “VHC” class, where it is all about getting the quickest time in the old rally cars in the 18 special stages. They were registered in “VHRS” – the touristic regularity rally. But the only touristic thing about the two professionals was the identical sports shoes they bought together on site. And only the consistently high tempo with which the two tackled the demanding slopes of the fantastic setting could be described as regular.

The “rally of 10,000 corners”

The Tour de Corse was and is celebrated and feared in equal measure. The first incarnation was launched in 1956 and covered almost 1,300 kilometres around the entire island, the streets of which are anything but straight. “At the time, this was the race that everybody wanted to win,” recalls Larrousse, “just as much as they wanted to win at the Nürburgring”.