"The 24 Hours of Daytona on February 6, 1966. The racing year begins with a surprise.The Porsche factory team not only opens the season with two proven 904 GTS cars, but also brings a 906 prototype to Florida for the first time. Only recently built, the car has hardly been tested. Confidence and more than a little courage are required to send this Porsche with its two-liter six-cylinder engine to that type of endurance test.
In Daytona everything comes together perfectly: the technology, the timing, and the team. Driving duties are shared by former Mercedes star and Fangio team member Hans Herrmann, who has just returned to Porsche, and Herbert Linge, a qualified racing mechanic who was the brand’s first test and factory driver in 1948. Herrmann and Linge—both born in 1928 in the southern German region of Swabia—get along great; they’ve been through thick and thin together. They pulled off a legendary stunt at the 1954 Mille Miglia by ducking under a railroad-crossing gate at full racing speed in their Porsche 550 Spyder to then post a class victory while barely breaking a sweat.
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In Daytona everything comes together perfectly: the technology, the timing, and the team. Driving duties are shared by former Mercedes star and Fangio team member Hans Herrmann, who has just returned to Porsche, and Herbert Linge, a qualified racing mechanic who was the brand’s first test and factory driver in 1948. Herrmann and Linge—both born in 1928 in the southern German region of Swabia—get along great; they’ve been through thick and thin together. They pulled off a legendary stunt at the 1954 Mille Miglia by ducking under a railroad-crossing gate at full racing speed in their Porsche 550 Spyder to then post a class victory while barely breaking a sweat.
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