{"id":769,"date":"2018-06-17T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=769"},"modified":"2021-10-23T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:52:24","slug":"porsche-936-77-4-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-936-77-4-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 936\/77 #4 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1977 Porsche 936\/77<\/strong>\nPilots: J. Ickx. H. Haywood, J. Barth\nTeam: Porsche System \/ Martini<\/em>\nRace: 1st overall (Gr. 6 class) at Le Mans in 1977<\/strong>\nSpark - S1388 (resin)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 09\/08\/17<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Porsche introduced the 936 as a Group 6 car in 1976. The basis of the car were the proven 908\/03 and 917\/10 designs. The result was an aluminum space frame (based on the 917) covered by a plastic body. Powering the car was a turbocharged 2142 cm\u00b3 flat-six with an output of around 520 hp, previously used in the 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1<\/a>.  With the 936, Jacky Ickx was victorious at La Sarthe in 1976. Even with  the proven success of the 936, for the following year Porsche further  developed the car into the 936\/77<\/strong>. The new car had a  lower and longer body, producing better aerodynamics, and the engine was  upgraded with two turbines instead of one, with an upgrade in output to  540 hp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Spark almost at its finest…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This car is chassis #936\/77-001, thus the first 936 produced in 1976 (in early 1977 it was upgraded to 936\/77 specs), and it was the first car at Le Mans to be piloted by three pilots. Ickx entered the race piloting the 936\/77 #3, along with Henri Pescarolo. But not even into the third hour of the race, while in third place, the #3 car had to abandon. The #4 car was having engine trouble and was back in 41st. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Night fell and Porsche decided to get Ickx in the #4 car, and he then did three stints in a row. He was absolutely impressive behind the wheel, despite the heavy rain and fog that was making the track treacherous, and by midnight #3 was in 6th place. The leading Renault  started to have problems, and at sunrise Ickx was in third! He continued  driving like a machine, and even with engine trouble on Sunday  afternoon, #3 crossed the line in 1st place. And that was with only five  cylinders running!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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All three 936 winners: 936<\/a>, 936\/77 and 936\/81<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All  three versions of the 936 were piloted by Ickx, and were Le Mans  winners. A true grail model for me, and a VERY nice one. For me it\u2019s so  special because according to Ickx (one of my great racing idols) that race was the best race of his career. A statement like that coming from  the former \u201cMr. Le Mans\u201d is no small potatoes, so this model was a must  buy. Spark did a fine job on the car, and I\u2019m very happy with it. BUT,  maybe because it\u2019s an older mold, it\u2019s not exactly one of Spark\u2019s most  refined models \u2013 basically it\u2019s as good as a very good Minichamps model.  VERY nice, but Spark can do better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in the words of the master himself, from the book \u201cJacky Ickx\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, by Pierre Van Vliet: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dIt was the race of my life. Without a doubt the biggest moment of  my career. I\u2019ll never ever forget that night. Due to the early technical  problems we had nothing to lose and could only go flat out. Without  thinking or calculating. The circumstances were extreme; not only was it  dark, it rained heavy and there was a lot of fog. But we took every  possible risk. Every lap I drove on the limit, although the rev counter  was broken and I had to concentrate even harder to change gears pure on  hearing. And the higher we climbed in the ranking, the stronger we felt.  

I remember that strange feeling I got when we again had prospects of a  victory, when everything looked like a lost case a couple of hours  earlier. None of us could believe it. That night I did go to the limits  of my abilities. Did exactly what the team asked of me, drove on the  limit constantly and made no mistakes. I put the pressure on the Renault  boys so hard that they eventually broke their cars. That\u2019s the magic of  Le Mans: the race is only over when the checkered flag falls. And  that\u2019s only 24 hours after the start.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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God I love that race! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1977 Porsche 936\/77 Pilots: J. Ickx. H. Haywood, J. Barth Team: Porsche System \/ Martini Race: 1st overall (Gr. 6 class) at Le Mans in 1977 Spark – S1388 (resin) Published 09\/08\/17 Porsche introduced the 936 as a Group 6 car in 1976. The basis of the car were the proven 908\/03 and 917\/10 designs. … Continue reading “Porsche 936\/77 #4 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12862,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions\/12862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}