Wish You Were Here, Sebring 2008, Friday Nite.
03-14-2008, 11:51 PM
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Wish You Were Here, Sebring 2008, Friday Nite.
Greetings from Sebring 2008!.... a Kodak moment with Larry Hayes, Harm Lagaaij, Sherri Meier, and Ed Meier!
03-15-2008, 01:33 AM
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THE MAXMORITZ SEMI WORKS 928 GTR
Porsche´s Racing Department never officially entered or prepared a racing 928 for a pure works entry. Only once Porsche decided to make it obvious to the 911 enthusiasts that they usually tended to underrate the racing genes of the 928: So Porsche "arranged" this 928GTR to compete with the then dominant 911(993GTR) on the race track. In order not to offend sensibilities of their traditional 911/993GTR customers by officially challenging them with an outright Works-928GTR, PORSCHE asked MAX-MORITZ-RACING, their long time private racing partner from next-door-Reutlingen to enter this 928GTR Cup as a semi-works car. http://www.porsche928.net/history/strosek_928cup.html So it didn´t come as a surprise, that the drivers were: Bernd Mayländer, Manuel Reuter (Porsche Works Pilots), also Harm Lagaaij (then Head of Porsche´s Design Studio). Vittorio Strosek sponsored MM with his Lightweight-Body-Parts and racing exhaust. The car was officially entered by PORSCHE-CLUB-SCHWABEN. Homologation minimum weight had to be, and actually is 1370 kg. (more infos: „PORSCHE SCENE -Germany- 12/2006 „Frisch aufgelegt: Stroseks Design Klassiker“ and 911&PORSCHE WORLD -GB- May/June 1994 „928 Cup Racer“ ) Lagaaij reports, that the car was very competitive and able to hold most 993GTR down, although the engine was no more than fine-tuned after chosen from a set of high power output specimen in Weissach. In the last race of the season at Hockenheim a crank-bearing ran dry. As the car was supposed to race in 1995 as well, she was made ready to continue her successful competition in the 1995 season. A fresh engine was installed, selected from the same lot of high output engines and tuned as before. But in 1995 Porsche´s 928-production came to an end and the car consequently was no more raced in the new season. The late Max Moritz himself then had her join his collection of historic cars. She has never been put on the road again until after his death, when the family sold the car in October 2004 -with only 24500 km on the clock. (Porsche-Weissach is the only documented owner).
Porsche´s Racing Department never officially entered or prepared a racing 928 for a pure works entry. Only once Porsche decided to make it obvious to the 911 enthusiasts that they usually tended to underrate the racing genes of the 928: So Porsche "arranged" this 928GTR to compete with the then dominant 911(993GTR) on the race track. In order not to offend sensibilities of their traditional 911/993GTR customers by officially challenging them with an outright Works-928GTR, PORSCHE asked MAX-MORITZ-RACING, their long time private racing partner from next-door-Reutlingen to enter this 928GTR Cup as a semi-works car. http://www.porsche928.net/history/strosek_928cup.html So it didn´t come as a surprise, that the drivers were: Bernd Mayländer, Manuel Reuter (Porsche Works Pilots), also Harm Lagaaij (then Head of Porsche´s Design Studio). Vittorio Strosek sponsored MM with his Lightweight-Body-Parts and racing exhaust. The car was officially entered by PORSCHE-CLUB-SCHWABEN. Homologation minimum weight had to be, and actually is 1370 kg. (more infos: „PORSCHE SCENE -Germany- 12/2006 „Frisch aufgelegt: Stroseks Design Klassiker“ and 911&PORSCHE WORLD -GB- May/June 1994 „928 Cup Racer“ ) Lagaaij reports, that the car was very competitive and able to hold most 993GTR down, although the engine was no more than fine-tuned after chosen from a set of high power output specimen in Weissach. In the last race of the season at Hockenheim a crank-bearing ran dry. As the car was supposed to race in 1995 as well, she was made ready to continue her successful competition in the 1995 season. A fresh engine was installed, selected from the same lot of high output engines and tuned as before. But in 1995 Porsche´s 928-production came to an end and the car consequently was no more raced in the new season. The late Max Moritz himself then had her join his collection of historic cars. She has never been put on the road again until after his death, when the family sold the car in October 2004 -with only 24500 km on the clock. (Porsche-Weissach is the only documented owner).
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THE MAXMORITZ SEMI WORKS 928 GTR
Porsche´s Racing Department never officially entered or prepared a racing 928 for a pure works entry. Only once Porsche decided to make it obvious to the 911 enthusiasts that they usually tended to underrate the racing genes of the 928: So Porsche "arranged" this 928GTR to compete with the then dominant 911(993GTR) on the race track. In order not to offend sensibilities of their traditional 911/993GTR customers by officially challenging them with an outright Works-928GTR, PORSCHE asked MAX-MORITZ-RACING, their long time private racing partner from next-door-Reutlingen to enter this 928GTR Cup as a semi-works car. http://www.porsche928.net/history/strosek_928cup.html So it didn´t come as a surprise, that the drivers were: Bernd Mayländer, Manuel Reuter (Porsche Works Pilots), also Harm Lagaaij (then Head of Porsche´s Design Studio). Vittorio Strosek sponsored MM with his Lightweight-Body-Parts and racing exhaust. The car was officially entered by PORSCHE-CLUB-SCHWABEN. Homologation minimum weight had to be, and actually is 1370 kg. (more infos: „PORSCHE SCENE -Germany- 12/2006 „Frisch aufgelegt: Stroseks Design Klassiker“ and 911&PORSCHE WORLD -GB- May/June 1994 „928 Cup Racer“ ) Lagaaij reports, that the car was very competitive and able to hold most 993GTR down, although the engine was no more than fine-tuned after chosen from a set of high power output specimen in Weissach. In the last race of the season at Hockenheim a crank-bearing ran dry. As the car was supposed to race in 1995 as well, she was made ready to continue her successful competition in the 1995 season. A fresh engine was installed, selected from the same lot of high output engines and tuned as before. But in 1995 Porsche´s 928-production came to an end and the car consequently was no more raced in the new season. The late Max Moritz himself then had her join his collection of historic cars. She has never been put on the road again until after his death, when the family sold the car in October 2004 -with only 24500 km on the clock. (Porsche-Weissach is the only documented owner).
Porsche´s Racing Department never officially entered or prepared a racing 928 for a pure works entry. Only once Porsche decided to make it obvious to the 911 enthusiasts that they usually tended to underrate the racing genes of the 928: So Porsche "arranged" this 928GTR to compete with the then dominant 911(993GTR) on the race track. In order not to offend sensibilities of their traditional 911/993GTR customers by officially challenging them with an outright Works-928GTR, PORSCHE asked MAX-MORITZ-RACING, their long time private racing partner from next-door-Reutlingen to enter this 928GTR Cup as a semi-works car. http://www.porsche928.net/history/strosek_928cup.html So it didn´t come as a surprise, that the drivers were: Bernd Mayländer, Manuel Reuter (Porsche Works Pilots), also Harm Lagaaij (then Head of Porsche´s Design Studio). Vittorio Strosek sponsored MM with his Lightweight-Body-Parts and racing exhaust. The car was officially entered by PORSCHE-CLUB-SCHWABEN. Homologation minimum weight had to be, and actually is 1370 kg. (more infos: „PORSCHE SCENE -Germany- 12/2006 „Frisch aufgelegt: Stroseks Design Klassiker“ and 911&PORSCHE WORLD -GB- May/June 1994 „928 Cup Racer“ ) Lagaaij reports, that the car was very competitive and able to hold most 993GTR down, although the engine was no more than fine-tuned after chosen from a set of high power output specimen in Weissach. In the last race of the season at Hockenheim a crank-bearing ran dry. As the car was supposed to race in 1995 as well, she was made ready to continue her successful competition in the 1995 season. A fresh engine was installed, selected from the same lot of high output engines and tuned as before. But in 1995 Porsche´s 928-production came to an end and the car consequently was no more raced in the new season. The late Max Moritz himself then had her join his collection of historic cars. She has never been put on the road again until after his death, when the family sold the car in October 2004 -with only 24500 km on the clock. (Porsche-Weissach is the only documented owner).
Porsche has a number of patents wherein they construe (mentioned specifically) by various means to reduce or eliminate air entrainment in the oil that often led to lost bearings in their wet sump engines. Obviously they spent a fortune on this over an extended period of time. Now the wet sumps are typically hybrid dry sumps as with the 911.
