Porsche 962 Video / Norbert Singer Interview

I enjoy some of Chris Harris's videos.  The production is elegant and his interviews are interesting.  This one runs 14 minutes.  The "driving impression" segments are too Gee Whiz for me, but the Norbert Singer interview is educational.

At Road America in 1988, the customer 962's were almost as fast as CART single-seaters were.  Chip Robinson/Derek Bell, in Al Holbert's Lowenbrau car, came second to Geoff Brabham/John Morton in the Nissan GTP.  I enjoyed the race almost as much as I did CART at Road America.  True, the 962's cylinder heads were water cooled, but the barrels were air-cooled by a vertical fan.  So the 956/962 was still a Porsche.   ;-)

As for the difference between spool and locker differentials, I'm still at sea after some internet research.  They seem the same to me in their effect on handling, and very similar in design.  I'll guess that Norbert was suggesting that he'd put a Torsen diff in a racing sports car if he was designing it today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxC-knQmkM

The aero ground-effects tunnels of the 962 seen from the rear.

Al Holbert's 962 won some IMSA championships and ran at the front for years.  The preparation and appearance were
Penske-like--always the class of the field.  Holbert's race number, going back to his 911 RSR's of the early 1970's, was
14: the same as his father Bob's Porsche Spyders.  (Below: Bob's RS 61 Spyder at Cumberland, MD in '61.)