At this month’s 2023 Goodwood Competition of Pace, former System 1 driver Stefan Johansson will unveil a modified Porsche 911 he hand painted. It will not simply be any 911, although. As an alternative, will probably be powered by one among his former F1 racing engines.
The automotive—code-named SJ87—is the eighth of 11 Porsche 930 TAG Turbo builds by Lanzante, a British motorsports and engineering firm which lately has been making road-legal variations of the McLaren P1 GTR and different observe vehicles. Introduced in 2018, the Porsche construct combines a 930-generation 911 chassis with precise TAG Turbo F1 engines. These turbocharged 1.5-liter V-6 engines have been developed by Porsche and utilized by McLaren within the Nineteen Eighties.
SJ87 has the engine that powered Johansson’s McLaren MP4/3 within the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix. The race did not go properly for Johansson and McLaren; the Swedish driver totaled his major automotive in a collision with a deer in apply, after which misplaced a wheel in a pit cease throughout the race, ending seventh. However the engine was in its final type development-wise. McLaren had been racing the TAG Turbo engine since 1984, and would swap to Honda energy for the 1988 season.
Johansson additionally hand-painted the automotive’s livery. In keeping with Lanzante, it is a mixture of inexperienced, referencing Johansson’s helmet design and childhood nickname “Little Leaf,” the blue and yellow of the Swedish flag, and pink and white for the Marlboro colours of Johansson’s McLaren MP4/3 F1 automotive.
Lanzante 930 Porsche 911 powered by Tag Turbo System 1 engine
Whereas the race automotive was estimated to have someplace within the neighborhood of 750 hp, the 930 highway automotive has a extra manageable 503 hp, which is shipped to the rear wheels via a 6-speed handbook gearbox from a 993-generation 911. Lanzante estimates a curb weight of two,248 lbs, not together with the motive force and gasoline.
The finished automotive might be unveiled on the 2023 Goodwood Competition of Pace, which begins within the U.Okay. on July 13. It will not be the one retro 911 construct; Singer will current its Dynamics and Lightweighting Research — Turbo, a 964 that channels the Porsche 934/5 race automotive of the Seventies.
