{"id":489974,"date":"2008-05-01T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=54540"},"modified":"2024-12-08T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:31:13","slug":"product-reviews-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-52\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Laurence Meredith<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-586606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2-1024x923.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2-100x90.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2-770x694.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/PR200805-p2-293x264.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>In 1951, Porsche launched its now-famous, 57-year, motor sport legacy when a 1,086-cc, 356 Gm\u00fcnd coupe won its class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A fact less widely known was that, several months later, Porsche elected to demonstrate its motor sport versatility by entering a team of 356s in the arduous Li\u00e8ge-Rome-Li\u00e8ge Rally. The result was a class victory, a 2nd and 3rd overall, and the beginning of a 30-year involvement in rallying, which included everything from 356s, 904s, and 911s to 914s, 924s, and the 959 super-car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Porsche\u2014The Rally Story, Laurence Meredith tracks the history and development of Porsche\u2019s rally cars from those early Gm\u00fcnd coupes in 1951, right through to the mid-\u201980s and the short-lived, but successful, 959 rally program. At 255-pages, this book includes a tremendous amount of detailed information on this lesser written-about segment of Porsche\u2019s racing heritage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the great strengths of this book is that it is filled with over 400 excellent and rare photographs, chronicling the various Porsche rally cars and campaigns over the years. Ironically, if there is fault to be had with this book, it lies with the captions for a number of these photos, which tend to merely explain the obvious and not provide the details or history of the image itself. With that said, this is an interesting book that sheds new light on a poorly documented segment of Porsche\u2019s rich racing history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Available for <strong>US$89.95<\/strong> (<strong>\u00a345.00<\/strong>) directly from the publisher at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veloce.co.uk\">www.veloce.co.uk<\/a> or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorbooks.com\">www.motorbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story By Laurence Meredith In 1951, Porsche launched its now-famous, 57-year, motor sport legacy when a 1,086-cc, 356 Gm\u00fcnd coupe won its class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A fact less widely known was that, several months later, Porsche elected to demonstrate its motor sport versatility by entering a team of 356s in the arduous Li\u00e8ge-Rome-Li\u00e8ge Rally. The result was a class victory, a 2nd and 3rd overall, and the beginning of a 30-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":586606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,16906,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,89,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-489974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-porsche","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-porsche","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-52\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Book Review] Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Porsche \u2013 The Rally Story By Laurence Meredith In 1951, Porsche launched its now-famous, 57-year, motor sport legacy when a 1,086-cc, 356 Gm\u00fcnd coupe won its class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 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