He laughs and says: "I thought, I'll take a little vacation and then start in April or May." But Falk made it clear that the season would be well underway at max revs by then and thus 1 March would be the day he would begin. "Okay," Singer decided, "so no vacation." Falk promised he would hear and Singer waited for the signal from Porsche. "January came and went, February too. 1 March was a Sunday - and by Saturday I hadn't heard from anybody. I thought, oh well, they didn't want me after all."
The next day his excited father waited for him at the front door. Porsche had called. Where was this new engineer, if you please. They were waiting for him.The working relationship which reached its 25th anniversary last year [this is from a 1996 Christophorus] and grew into a true love of Porsche, had begun with a misunderstanding. Singer: "They had simply forgotten to tell me I had been hired."
Norbert Singer's career at Porsche began on 2 March, 1970. In June of that same year the then-30-year-old experienced their first Le Mans victory on the scene. "I believe," he recalls, "I did the brake vents." More accurately, Norbert Singer was already hard on the throttle then. In 1972 he was given responsibility however: for the project of developing the Carrera RSR racing version into a top model. Thanks to Singer's engineering skills, Porsche experienced the golden seventies of GT racing with its 911 Turbo racing versions, with the Porsche 935 and open 936. The era of the Porsche 956/962 followed in the eighties with a decade full of unmatched success for the vehicle concepts of Norbert Singer.
The always-new search for the most promising interpretation of ever-changing regulations - the flexible and innovative possibilities which he could and still can bring to life for Porsche in Weissach en- Next and Last Page ->
Singer masterpieces showed thecompetition how, not only at LeMans. Thoroughly trained weapons: 962 C phalanx with 5000 kilometers to go. The 956/962 dominated LeMans for years.
