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tt ne gtherng dt? My philosophy was always that the museum
should be like a garage. There are 80 cars in
the museum and only two of them are not
running at the moment. I have never liked
static displays and [the cars] must be active.It is what the cars are made for, running and
driving. Often when we release a new car to
the press, we will have one of the cars from
the museum leading the press cars, either a
935 or GT1 or a 917/10 or a 917/30. Sometimes I
drive them, or if the event is somewhere where
I’m not, we will have, for example, Walter
Röhrl, or in Australia, Jim Richards driving, or
Vern Schuppan.
For instance, I was just at the Mille Miglia
in Italy three weeks ago with Jacky Ickx; it’s
always important to put the original boys
in their cars. I like to put the young boys in
the cars too, like [2010 Le Mans winners]
Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard and [multipleNürburgring 24-hour winner] Marc Lieb so
they can realise what has happened in the
past. They often say they haven’t raced in such
a powerful car and they are impressed. It’s
also a part of the tradition to give the younger
generation the Porsche feeling.
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We have to forward plan a lot of the time. I have
just come from the Mille Miglia and am going to
Goodwood after this. I was in Beijing four weeks
ago. We took 10 cars there to teach the Chinese
people a little bit of tradition and to show theChinese why Porsche is so special, but we had to
send those cars air-freight because it was a bit of
a late idea; they came back by boat. The logistics
is done by me, but I did this during the racing
days as well.
The most important thing is that you must
always have a car in running condition. The
rolling museum is just a one-man show. But it
does include the race department in Wessaich
and the new workshop in Zuffenhausen. The
workshop is very important because it teaches
the next generation, when I retire, where to stick
the key in [laughs]. But still there are some old
guys in Porsche, mechanics etcetera from the old
days, and to still work with them is great.
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INTERVIEW KlAus BIsChof
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me t atr n the ner tre?
Yes, we will again have a collection of
museum cars coming to Australia. This
is a tradition that goes back to 1996. It’s
hard to find cars that people in Australia
haven’t seen, but we have a few underconstruction so we will find some special
things. Maybe those with an Australian
link, like Stefan Bellof’s 1984 Group C 956,
or Vern Schuppan’s Le Mans winning car.
Also, bringing legends to Australia. I’m
wanting to bring Jacky Ickx or Stirling
Moss – I am friends with both.
However, Stirling had a problem here, he
had a traffic accident in Tasmania and the
police are still looking for him [laughs]. He
said that since he is ‘Sir Stirling’ maybe it’s
different now.
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r y whe wrkng r the Prhetry rng tem? The most memorable for me was 1984. I
was involved from the very start in the
Group C cars, the 956 and later the 962,
and was there from the start in 1983 with
Stefan Bellof, Derek Bell, Jochen Maas and
Jacky Ickx. In 1984, Stefan won the World
Endurance Driver’s Championship, the last
race was at Sandown and that was a great
time between ’84 and ’86. We won the F1
championship, the World Championship of
Makes and Endurance and twice the
Paris-Dakar, all in our little team.
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ked t sp-frnrhmp n 1985?
We wanted to stop racing at that time.
First it was Manfred Winklehock, then
Bellof, then Jo Gartner at Le Mans, andnothing happened before and nothing
happened afterward. It was not even a
technical problem. Winklehock was a
puncture, Bellof was... a special thing
[accident], with Jacky Ickx, it’s racing but
that was a hard time in ’85. Also with Rolf
Stommelen [being killed] in 1983, he was a
good friend. That’s racing... but in our time
it was sometimes not easy.
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the 935?
It takes a little bit of time to learn how to
handle it. I haven’t driven it a lot lately.
It’s not a problem, but you must be alittle bit careful. Three weeks ago we
drove the 356 at Targa Tasmania, which
is a different world.
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memre wth t.
At Daytona with Rolf Stommelen, the car
was in the middle of the grass because
during the night it stopped. So I crept out to
the back of the track and cut through thefence, turned off my lamp so nobody could
see me and went to Rolf’s [stranded] car.
The belt of the injection pump was a
problem, so I got into the back of the car and
got a spare belt from [inside] the car and
opened the housing [from inside the car] and
put the new belt on. Rolf sat in the car to see
if it worked and it worked! I wanted to jump
out, but Rolf said, “Keep sitting,” and I stayed
in [behind the driver’s seat] for about 10 laps!
I said, “If we come to the pits we’ll be
disqualified, and maybe I will go to jail!”
But our mechanics realised what was
happening, and when we came to the pits
there was only one marshal, so anothermechanic ran into him and knocked him
down so I could escape from the car! I had
to lie down afterwards because I was sick
from the banking [corners] at Daytona.
Also, at the Norisring circuit we had
a problem with the fuel pressure of the
‘Baby’ [1.4-litre turbo 935] so I watched the
gauges from behind the driver to see the
problem and we f ixed it. There was low fuel
pressure. Not long after fixing the problem
I got out of the car and returned to the
pits... then, just a few laps later Ickx
crashed the car [laughs].
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