(at least, the ones we know about)


    Norbert Singer's first project at Porsche, indeed it was essentially his first job out of engineering school, was to design cooling ducts on Porsche's 917 - the car which earned Porsche its first overall LeMans win and which, some say, put Porsche "on the map." Surely there was much more to the 917's success than its cooling ducts, no matter how brilliantly they probably worked! But Singer nevertheless showed his potential remarkably quickly. In 1973, just three years after he started, Singer was put in charge of entire race car projects, such as those listed below, beginning with none other than the Carrera RSR. If the 917 put Porsche on the map, then the RSR gave them their own page in the atlas, in its very first race. And that was Singer's fantastic entry on to the stage of international motorsports.
    Singer's official racing projects, according to Christophorus, are listed chronologically in  bold in the center column of the following pages. But he has apparently, and understandably, been very involved in other projects at Porsche as well. Paul Frere refers on page 314 of his excellent book Porsche 911 Story (Patrick Stevens Ltd., 1997 http://www.haynes.com) to "...Norbert Singer, responsible for all racing Porsches, except for the production based models, for the last 20 years..."
    Please send me any additional information you can share, including any stories or other photos.

But first - where else can you experience a Singer creation?
Climb in!
Click on the image and climb in! for a lap of Portland International Raceway with Alan McNish driving the Champion Porsche GT1 EVO in the American LeMans race. (Is this a full service club or what?) This is digital in-car footage from American LeMans Radio. They did a great job catching the mechanical sounds, too. Listen for the turbos between shifts. It's a 1,404KB Real Media (RM) file. You may need to download and save it to your computer first. Try right-clicking on the image, then select "save link as..." or "save as". Once it is through downloading, then click on it. You'll need a copy of Real Media or its equivalent on your computer to run it.

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