Yahoo Autos Pink Pig Flies Again! Porsche Brings Back Historic Racing Liveries
Porsche is busting out the celebratory sausages and cigarettes before it even turns a lap at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. In time for its own 70th anniversary, the automaker has just reissued two of its most famous racing liveries for the 911 RSR.
The #91 car, driven by factory drivers Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz, and Frédéric Makowiecki, wears the ’80s-fantastic Rothmans scheme that once draped the winning 959 rally car from the 1986 Paris-Dakar race. The 956 and 962 prototype racers that wore these blue, white, red, and gold colors also won overall at Le Mans in 1982, 1983, 1986, and 1987.
Then there is the #92 car, piloted by factory drivers Michael Christensen, Kévin Estre, and Laurens Vanthoor, which is a giant map of German cow parts. A shocking surprise for Porsche management at the 1971 Le Mans, this livery graced the 917/20 that was the in-between version of the short- and long-tail 917s that dominated tracks throughout the 1970s. Unfortunately, “Pink Pig” didn’t; it suffered a crash. Porsche hopes this new “Truffle Hunter” will get its schwanz together and score points.
The retro-liveried cars are two of 10 Porsche entries, including six cars from privateer teams running in the amateur GTE class. Porsche no doubt hopes its retro liveries will remind everyone that Stuttgart has the most victories of any automaker at Le Mans, with a current victory count of 19 overall and 105 in class. Smoke ’em if you got ’em, right?
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