Category: Porsche 911 Rally

We have some great news for owners of earlier 911s through the Carrera 3.2: We now have the Zuffenhaus RSR brakes in stock to bolt onto your original chassis! It allows you to take advantage of the supreme stopping power of these race proven brakes.

The original brakes on all these types of cars were single piston equipped. The real heavy duty, race oriented brakes were reserved for the Turbo 3.3, which came with larger, wider, cross drilled ventilated disks and for piston brakes in the configuration of the 917 and 911 RSR race cars. Contrary to popular belief 917 brakes look nothing like RSR brakes, as they were not equipped with cooling fins. Those were only added for the 2.8 RSR. The internals however were the same.

The reason you should get our RSR brakes is that it is the only big-brake bolt-on solution which fits both front and rear bolt spacing and [...]

After an exciting morning running regularities through Western Slovenia, we all made it to the finish line in Trieste, where we were greeted by organiser Bart Rietbergen and his wife Jolijn, I can honestly say that I have never experienced the kind of cold we have here at the moment. The wind is blowing from the East over the Adriatic at hurricane speeds and the wind chill factor must be minus 25C!

This morning’s roads had more holes than a Gruyere cheese. Anything loose in the car danced around as though gravity had dropped to Moon levels. Should you need to recover from a wrong turn early in a stage, doing 90km on these twisties shows you where the weakness in the car is. None were found.

We have yet to find out the official results of the rally, but [...]

Today the men were separated from the boys. We had a very full program on Winter Trial 2012. The roads were very tricky due to alternating wet, icy and dry surfaces. One 911 driven by a WRC crack team folded itself around a tree, some of our friends got threatened by an angry farmer, but all of us came home with a smile on our faces.

If you didn’t keep pace today, you were sure to make a steep drop down the leader board, because there were so many opportunities to lose point you wouldn’t believe it. The terrain here in Slovenia is quite rough and there were several outstanding opportunities to launch yourself into a 700-metre abyss. We gracefully declined those invitations, but a Jag just ahead of us got dangerously close.

The tests today were a lot of fun, but driven on dry surfaces. This means [...]