{"id":300519,"date":"2017-06-05T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=300519"},"modified":"2024-12-08T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:15:19","slug":"a-porsche-718-living-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-porsche-718-living-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A Porsche 718 Living Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this episode, we get to see a\u00a0Porsche 718<\/a> living strong even after all these years as the story behind it is being told.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you get it on song, get up to 7,000-plus-revs, it was absolutely amazing,\u201d says racing driver Derek Bell, \u201c\u2026and the fact you could brake so perfectly, flick it into a corner, put the power on\u2026it just wanted the hell driven out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Porsche works driver Derek Bell wasn\u2019t just driving any classic Porsche on any road\u2014he was driving the Targa Florio-winning 718 RS 60 on the actual Targa Florio course in Italy. Noted for its 800+ corners, dozens of hairpin turns, and danger everywhere else, the Targa Florio<\/a> is still a revered, respected, and cherished event in Sicily, where it was held in period.<\/p>\n

Bell\u2019s career, however, happened much later and he never did get a chance to drive Porsche\u2019s diminutive giant-killer in period competition. \u201cI never imagined I\u2019d ever drive this car, I never imagined I\u2019d ever drive on the Targa Florio\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere I was having this opportunity to step back in history, if you like, before my time with Porsche. When I realize that, and think about what Porsche has meant to me during my life, and what it\u2019s done for me, I realize how lucky I\u2019ve been to go back before my actual period with Porsche and drive a car that created history in 1960, and even before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even for an accomplished motorsport veteran like Bell, the former racing car and course presented a number of challenges. \u201cIt took me some time to get completely confident with what I was doing, because I\u2019ve never gone through so many hairpin bends in my life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a very special feeling that I can\u2019t really put into words, but it was almost choking me when I put it into 1st gear and driving it up the road, and that feel\u2014it\u2019s actually the feeling of freedom,\u201d Bell says, \u201c\u2026because I was on my own, on this amazing course, nobody around, and I was driving through corners that the greats had actually gone \u2019round those corners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell had to keep telling himself: \u201cYou\u2019re not on just a bit of road\u2026you\u2019re on the\u00a0Targa Florio<\/a> course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this episode, we get to see a\u00a0Porsche 718 living strong even after all these years as the story behind it is being told. \u201cOnce you get it on song, get up to 7,000-plus-revs, it was absolutely amazing,\u201d says racing driver Derek Bell, \u201c\u2026and the fact you could brake so perfectly, flick it into a corner, put the power on\u2026it just wanted the hell driven out of it.\u201d Former Porsche works driver Derek Bell wasn\u2019t just driving any classic Porsche 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