Arthur

I watched The History Channel's "Ultimate Auto", and it featured the Silver Arrows of the pre-WW2 era. What magnificent cars. Made me wonder, who is the best race car driver for Porsche? What about of all time?

DERSIX

Al Holbert is my pick as the best Porsche driver of all time.
Pete

James Achard

I'd vote for Derek Bell. Nice guy and very fast!!

James

JC in NY

I thought it was Mark Donohue. After all he won the IROC in the Carrera RSR.

James Achard

Arthur, I just checked and it is Derek Bell. Over the course of 20 years he won 37 major events for Porsche.

Cheers, James

ian

My all time vote has got to be Jim Clark, or Juan Fangio

For Porsche I'm going to agree with Derek Bell

DERSIX

Wasn't the #14 Lowenbrau 962 the winnest Porsche of all time.
Al Holbert
Winner of the IMSA Camel GT championship five times. President of the Miller High Life Porsche 962 sports car team, Vice President and General Manager of Holbert's Porsche/Audi car dealership, and served as director of Porsche Indy car effort. Assisted in the Motorsports Ministries, all-time IMSA titles in 1976, 1977, 1983, 1985 and 1986. Won 10 SCCA Can-Am races, one SCCA Trans-Am event and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three time, 1983, 1986 and 1987. He died in 1988.
Pete

chas911

Let us not forget Gentleman Bob Wollek. I believe his Porsche career was about 30 years. He won all but LeMans.

Bob C.

A couple names have not yet been mentioned.
Jacky Ickx won Le Mans on four separate occasions for Porsche and had three 2nd place finishes as well. He also won the FIA World Endurance Championship in '82 and '83 in a 956.

Hurley Haywood won the "big-three" endurance races a combined ten times (Le Mans x 3, Daytona x 5, Sebring x 2). Every one of these wins was at the wheel of a Porsche.

Ickx, Haywood, Bell, and Holbert defined Porsche's racing success. You can pick one "best Porsche racer" if you want, but you'd be splitting hairs.

The best overall sportscar racer ever? Jacky Ickx. No question. His successes go far beyond Porsche.

Tom

We should also add Brian Redman and Vic Elford to the list. They have some great accomplishments in making the 917 a success.

Dan Gurney, best Porsche F1 driver.

Teo Fabi, best Porsche CART driver.

George Follmer won 6 Can-Ams to Mark Donohue's 7, Donohue just won most of his in the same season! They each have 1 Can-Am championship.

Jochen Mass is second to Jackie Ickx in Sports Car W C wins, poles and fastest laps. Jackie gets my vote for best, everyone mentioned is great.

JOESELLSVW

No slight to Follmer, but his wins in the '72 season occured when Donohue was out with a badly broken leg. George was also driving the car that Donohue developed. Also remember that shortly before his death Donohue took the same Can Am car (917/30) in CAM2 livery and produced a closed circuit speed record that held until 1990! Mark's total domination of the first year of the IROC series also speaks highly of his driving credit. Although I'm a big Donohue fan, as far as Porsche results go.. Derek Bell wins. Bob Wolleck, Hurley Haywood, Al Holbert, Brian Redman, all made monumental contributions. As did Peter Gregg... surprised he hasn't been mentioned either. I guess his victories were more US focused. How about the Porsche racing stars of the future.... David Donohue? Mike Fitzgerald? Randy Pobst?

Joe@Fabspeed

dont forget about HANS STUCK........He could really find some time too and was had quite a personality!

Samm

And we can't forget David Murray! I've met him in persone and he's a very nice person. He's just like another persone at the track.

Samm
87 944S Porsche http://www.openairmotorsports.com

Danno

I remember a funny anecdote about Hans Stuck whichs went something like, "that guy has more bugs on his door than on the windshield!"

E. J. - 993 Alumni

That quote was from the IMSA GTO series in the early 1989 when Stuckie drove the Audi 90 Quattro. It only raced one year since it killed the competition - the awd was outlawed, so they took it to the German and Italian Touring Car series, where they continued to win championships.



E. J.