Norbert Singer Given the "Spirit of LeMans" award from ACO

May 2003

At the 2003 running of LeMans, the ACO officials award Norbert Singer their Spirit of LeMans. ACO awardThe following photos are thanks to the French publication "Virages" www.virages.fr.st. Please also see Michael Cotton's Tribute to Singer printed in 911 & Porsche World Magazine, which Tribute is at this link (a scanned article, with perhaps some errors in the computer translation).

   Singer and racing engineer Dipl Ing Roland Kussmaul, a Weissach tester and famous Porsche racing driver (especially rally)

This appears to be the Racer's Group pit/garage. They had just won the Rolex 24 overall this year with Porsche GT3s.

  Singer with Paul Frere, "top-flight engineer, journalist and former racing driver, enjoying an especially close and long relationship with the Porsche company, and has driven virtually every 911 variant" and author of the excellent "Porsche 911 Story" (Haynes Publishing) 
 

    In accepting the "Spirit of LeMans" award, Singer says he thanked "the Le Mans people, specially to Mr. Michel Cosson the President of the ACO and the
selection commitee under the control of Mr. Daniel Poissenot and last but not least to Porsche, which gave me the opportunity to give me the chance to come so often to Le Mans with all kinds of cars. My thanks went also to the Porsche racing team, which made these successes possible."
 

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