$ 22 mil Porsche 917 K racing at Nürburgring 2017 (revving & flames) 

Before more people ask, here's a short explanation about the engine. The 917K has a 180° V12, which is often called flat-12 Some people think however that a "flat engine" is the same as a "boxer engine" That is incorrect.. The way the pistons move is different for each configuration. In a "V" engine the pistons for 1 bank move in the same direction. In a boxer engine the pistons move towards eachother and then away from eachother. Imagine 2 Boxers hitting eachothers fist. Coming towards eachother. According to someone from the Porsche museum (Some people will know him, Benjamin from the JP Performance video's) it is a 180° V12. Even the info next to the 917 cars in the museum says this. I've seen it myself many times.

I'm amazed by the number of people walking along, totally oblivious to what just past them

That car scared me as a kid and it still does today, my all time favourite automobile 👌

This video should have 917k views.

It's been said that when an airplane design looks right, it flies right. This 917K looks right from all angles. Combine that look with that sound, and it explains itself.

My all time personal favorite !!! Nothing on the earth goes up and down my spine. That sound maaaaaan

The best LMP1 car of all time.

Is this the most unreal racecar by Porsche!!! 😍😱😁

Ahh yes my favorite Porsche! If only Porsche would make a street version today, like Ford did with the GT in 05. It would have to be slightly larger of course. It also probably would need a redesign of the rear so the wheels wouldn’t be exposed. That is just my fantasy.

I see that Ron Dennis found a new job.

why is it that i never seem to see these beasts in slicks

Simply The beast.

Why is the dude running after him with the jerry can ?

Just a monster

I never would've thought a bike could pass a 917! 4:55.

Stunning - with a road legal number plate?

Why was Stumpen running after the car with the gas can? Awesome car, one of my fave Porsches.

0:55 What model is that? 1/64 scale?

From 3:52 to 6:00 this car oozes nasty badass wicked cool.

You hear that project cars2 thats how they sound!

Right. I'm loading Project Cars 2 now.

OMG sounds sick !

Just wondering, but why would Porsche think that having the engine fan exposed, yet covering the cylinders right next to it would be a good thing? Am I getting something wrong here?

no earplugs, no nothing for that guy who lean over the engines..haha. ... say whattt ?????

As far as I’m concerned, the prototype category reached their peak not long after JW Automotive made the 917K a world beater with the ‘Kurzheck’ aerodynamic solution that was quickly adopted by the factory and every privateer before the category was banned after 1971. The evolution was so astonishing between 1966 and 71, there is nothing to compare. The next great thing to happen in endurance was the way Porsche engineered their 911 based group 5 935 cars into overall Le Mans winners whilst at the same time reworking an old 70s LM winning museum piece the 936 prototype to be their new Le Mans killer - manifesting in the 956, and 962 group C monsters that totally dominated the 1980s. ...Still not as spectacular as the 917K to my layman’s mind, for me the 917 remains an unequalled paradigm shift, forever the greatest of all endurance racers.

why is the mechanic running like an maniac behind the car? is he affraid that the fuel will go out ;)

top...............

Horn is not working?

Who came up with the $22 million dollar number? It's inaccurate. One just sold in Monterey for $15 million

When dinosaurs roamed the track...

Wlell there is 10 minutes down the drain

The way the bodywork in the rear goes up and straight back leaving those beefy rear tires exposed is just pure fucking sickness!!!! An era of Motorsport never to be seen again.

This is one good reason to be a very wealthy person. All I would need is two cars. This one and one to take me to the track to drive it.

Coolest race cars ever made. The golden era of racing.

She is a beauty and she has a lovely singing voice D: Great racing machine of all time

22 mil for the car and the support gu y with the gas can can't get a golf cart wtf

This is the reason I stopped watching NASCAR. These 917 K are an absolute BEAST. Absolute pure racing

En Mulsanne Jackie Oliver casi llega a los 400km/hora en 1972,con un 917,el mejor y más iconico SP de la Historia del automovilismo,una bestia,una máquina de ganar,una leyenda sobre ruedas!!! facebook.com/929048017281304/posts/1457538901098877/?vh=e&d=nmás iconico SP de la

God.I remember those 917s from when i was a kid.NOTHING HAD A CHANCE against them.What a machine.A piece of my youth right there.

1971, Mulsane straight, 240 MPH, 3 in the morning, surrounded by aluminum chassis/fuel tanks and gasoline............FFS that must have been heaven!

Race cars were so much more beautiful before wind tunnels and CFD.

Imagine how painful it would be to crash this

She's a beaut, and at 600 H.P. a real baest.. now imagine this basic engine and car (in open cockpit and much lighter at about 1,600 lbs.) with twin turbos and over 1,200 H.P. (max 1,500) they called it the 917/30 and it dominated Can-Am in the U.S. in '73....most likely the fastest road race car ever built.

get the mechanic a bike t least!!! poor guy running after the car

that anouncer needs to shut up so we can hear the car;)

amazing.. watched your video of her idle down the pits over and over for 15 minutes - what a beauty

Monaco plates? Is that road legal in Monaco then? Just about anything seems to be.

Fun fact, while there were built 25 units of the 1969-1970 Porsche917, this 917K variant only 12 were produced for 1970-1971, thus the rarity. K stands for Kurzheck (short-tail).

COOL. But not a V 12, The 'Type 912' engine featured a 180° flat-12 cylinder layout, twin overhead camshafts driven from centrally mounted gears and twin spark plugs fed from two distributors.[11] The large horizontally mounted cooling fan was also driven from centrally mounted gears. The longitudinally mounted gearbox was designed to take a set of four or five gears.

Unquestionably the best racing car ever made

When I was at Lime Rock years ago the owner wanted $1.3m. Damn him, he wouldn't take a check!!!

@The ThirdMan The Lockheed SR71 Blackbird and the Aerospatiale BAC Concorde, were built by the same generation of engineers and like the Porsche 917 both of those remain unbeaten too. Nothing made today even comes close to those engineering marvels either. Your CAD/CAM hasn't given us anything that even comes close to them. The Boeing MAX is an unsurprising product of CAD/CAM technology. Flawed and dangerous. The calculations that you quote were correct when they were made. The long tail was quickly figured out to be an evolutionary dead end and dropped despite one finishing second in the 1970 Le Mans. It roasted its rear wheel bearings and its rear tyres due to the heat coming off of the air-cooled engine being captured by the long tail bodywork. But its main fault was that it was aerodynamically flawed. You don't factor in the fact that Porsche were constantly developing the engine getting more and more power from it. In its final (not Le Mans form) it developed 1560 bhp in qualifying and consistently delivered 1100 bhp in racing trim in CanAm where it was so unbeatable that it destroyed the CanAm series. Wheel creep does not matter when your have horsepower a plenty. It went to the North American CanAm series after the FIA changed the rule-book to ban it from racing in Europe because it was so successful. Porsche also tested but never raced an 1800 bhp version. With all due respect to you its not like comparing a Sopwith Camel with an F14 Tomcat. Its like comparing the Blackbird with the Tomcat. No contest. A fairer comparison would be to compare the 917 with the Ford Model T if you are going to compare the F14 with the Sopwith Camel. The warbird Tomcat could, just barely, catch the Concorde, a mere passenger plane! But if the Concorde had even a slight lead on the Tomcat, the Tomcat would run out of fuel long, long before that happened because the difference between their top speeds was marginal. The Tomcat was good for a short burst of Mach 2+. Concorde could cross the Atlantic at Mach 2+ and did so daily for twenty seven glorious years. The Tomcat was also replaced by an inferior aircraft. The Mach 1.8 F18 Hornet which was a lot slower than Concorde never mind the Blackbird. Engineers today rely on CAD to do their engineering for them and thus are not really engineers at all. They are only computer programmers, pure and simple. The genius of men like Clarence Kelly Johnson and Hans Mezger does not exist in the engineering world today. Nor is there anything to equal the machines they designed and built without CAD/CAM. This generation of CAD/Camless engineers also landed men on the moon, something else that is not going to happen again anytime soon. The Americans cannot even put a man into space today and are reduced to hitching lifts to the International Space Station from the Russians in their non-CAD/CAM designed Soyuz rockets. And, no, the CAD/CAM designed VSS Unity VP-03 doesn't count. It made a sub-orbital flight no better than the one John Glenn did fifty eight years ago in 1962 in the non-CAD/CAM Friendship 7. Whether you like the fact or not, the unbeatable Porsche 917 Kurzheck remains the greatest car ever built. Like Concorde, like Blackbird, like Apollo, over fifty years after it was designed and built there is nothing made today that even comes close to matching the magnificent 917K. There is nothing even being designed today that will surpass any of these engineering icons. The SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, took the 'fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger ocean liner record' in 1952 winning the much coveted and prestigious Blue Riband. It still holds the Blue Riband today. It will probably hold the Blue Riband forever because none of the modern CAD/CAM built liners of today come even close to matching her speed or her beauty either. Not everything done today is better than it was before. Unequalled, unbeaten and utterly beautiful looking engineering masterpieces; all of them. As a small child I saw Richard Attwood and Hans Hermann win the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours in a 917K with Willi Kauhsen and Gerard Larrousse finishing second in a 917 Langenheck. I have seen many racing cars race since then but I have never seen the equal of those monsters that just dominated all around them nor have I ever heard better than the spine tingling haunting glory banshee howl of their air-cooled flat twelve engines being pushed to their limits down the Mulsanne straight at 385 kph at night. Not only do they not make cars like that any more, they do not make drivers of that quality anymore either. I have also been privileged to fly Concorde. Bahrain to London, an upgrade that I really could not afford at the time, departing Bahrain at six o'clock in the morning. The upgrade was more than worth it as I saw three sunrises in one day, I have flown faster than a rifle bullet, I have flown at 53,000 feet and have seen the darkness of space and the curvature of the earth. I have flown at Mach 2.02. Nobody today can do this and it will be many, many years yet before they can do so again, if, indeed, they ever can. There is no 'bigger and better' today. There are only the unbeaten icons of history. Take your CAD/CAM and shove it where the sun don't shine. What you are claiming about the 917K is the same as claiming that the Boeing MAX is a better aircraft than Concorde because it was designed using CAD/CAM and is built using composite materials rather than the, mostly aluminium, that both the non-CAD/CAM 917 and Concorde were built from. Yeah! Right it is. Ha, ha, ha. My generation invented the internet and went to the Moon. Your generation invented Facebook and went to Playstation.

i think its great that they are taking these old cars out! if they sit, its the worse thing to do to these cars! drive them dont store them in a museum! plus these cars are being driven by professionals! i really would think the driver knows how much to push this car! thanks for the close up look!

Too expensive to realy race , nothing to prove and everything to protect .

Porsche, all other cars - traffic.

I was at Spa-Francorchamps for the 1000 km of 1970. I was there to see Rodriguez and Siffert have a kiss. But I was also at the GP of East London South Africa in 1962? I might be getting old. I was also at Le Mans in 1988 and 1989. But I was also there to see Belgium vs France for the Davis Cup in 2017. MDR.

I love how everyone turn their eyes on her when she passes by.

The greatest racing car ever built ,bar none. Even after 48 years, the sound of that engine gives me chills. If I had one wish before I died, it would be to drive that machine! Also, in another video, I heard a Porsche factory mechanic say the engine was a 180 degree flat V 12? doesn"t make sense. How can you have a flat V?

Perfection, just pure raw perfection. Wow just wow.

Geweldig apparaat! Fraaie video. Hoop deze volgend jaar bij Spa Classic te zien! Eigenaar was vorig jaar aanwezig met z'n 908 volgens mij? Volgende keer wel die arme man met de jerrycan meenemen op je fiets hahaha.

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't those Monaco plates, making it road legal?

Who says money can't buy happiness??

if you plan on spending 20 million on a car Do get a Porche 917 K only

One of the most gorgeous cars ever made.

In the Pit where they are Trying to Track down a misfire there... they hear it, but with 12 cylinders they really need telemetry software... Old School Analog needs a long hearing tube held to each cylinder to track down the skipping misfire... Despite what some think, It damned well matters, lest the engine blows from misfire over-stress half way through a race like that... Mandatory Analog telemetry sensors on the frame and other key stress points along side a complete wrap-around coarse film camera coverage of the entire course for the 24/7 of the Lemans Active Race, could have provided Science and Engineering with life saving data on the disintegration of the Ford GT-40 MK II that disintegrated at the end of the Lemans strait run... A Long High speed stretch where 200++ mph. is reached consistently by many of the Factory Cars in that race. The Forces at that speed can break an aircraft as well as a Road Race Auto...

My favourite Porsche a 917K but in Gulf livery... 😎

After the 917 all the Le Mans cars till nowadays can be considered 917, because that is the shape, can make any variations, still back to that root it goes.

The words you are looking for would be similar to lunacy, unfathomable, past insane - like Psyco.

Doesn't 180 degrees make it a flat 12?

What's the quickest way to make $10m? Buy a 917 and enjoy it for 4 or5 years.

I got that modelcar too 😁

Why does it have a license plate (Monaco)? 🤷‍♂️

The absolute best racing car of all time. Period

I would completely lose my shit when I would see a 917 in real life and some people were walking by like there is nothing

Run gasoline man run

Le Mans 1970

Its a showcar

props to drive 22 million dollars of car so hard after all these years

Legend

Poor old guy with the can running along with the 917 conked out after jogging a 1/2 mile and finally caught up. "Sorry Hans we couldn't afford a golf cart, we maxed out on budget".

i always see those avon tyres on old school race cars

The front of the 917 just says "Get out of my way - don't even think of fucking with me" like no other car ever.

I know the 917/30 had a spool system, im not sure about other models but if it does it must have been a bear getting it around low speed corners (any guys with welded diffs and no power steering who have to make u turns know what I mean

real beauty. but for me these events are ruined by the unrelenting, blabbing commentary. at least we got to hear it idle uninterrupted.

0:42 That sound...!

Track day ..... car ? 917 ok you can go for free 🤣

Baddest assest race car. But for 22M, I might have opted for building a 917 factory.

Multiple people speaking Deutsche in the background adds to the feeling of conviction.

PORSCHE 917 ......... HELLS ON WHEELS........ MASTERPIECE OF GERMAN POWERCAR. THATS A CAR FOR A MAN.....OR A WOMAN .NOT FOR THE NEW GENERATION . MC PUNK

Porsche should make a flat 12 Supercar

This 917K and the C9/C11 Sauber Benz are the greatest Race Cars ever seen on road

There comes a time in a Porsche owners life when getting passed, makes you smile so hard your can't remove it for hours.

Porsche 917......the F1...to..wheels......blankets.....!!!😁😁😁. Very good 👍. Thanks.

For Christ sake! Pity he didn't put the mechanic on the side board and give him a lift!! #teamwork!!!!!!

Could someone get Marty Feldman a dam skateboard of something?

Looks every bit as 2022 as of now! Amazing design!

Wow. There is no substitute

Imagine this car drove the Nordschleife with more than 1000 hp. Must have been totaly crasy.

22 million dollars are you f*****

Ist not a V12 - ist a Boxer 12 Zyl.