Porsche 908/3 Spyder in action on Swiss Bernina Hillclimb Pass: Flat-8 Engine Sound & Crackles!
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- Here's a video about the winner of the 2023 Bernina Gran Turismo hillclimb race: a beautiful Porsche 908/3 Spyder driven by Christoph Rendlen. The car should be chassis 908/03-010 which took part in the 1971 Targa Florio.
The Porsche 908 was a sport prototype introduced in 1968 to comply with the new FIA rules for Group 6 racing, limiting engine displacement to 3,000 cc. Porsche designed a new air-cooled 3.0-litre flat-8 engine producing 350 hp at 8,400 rpm. Originally the 908 was a closed coupé to continue the Porsche 906, Porsche 910 and Porsche 907 series.
Despite winning the 1000km Nürburgring, the 908 was anything but convincing in 1968, with the older 907 delivering better results but struggling on faster tracks where Ford GT40s were still dominating. Porsche so decided to go one step further and develop a Group 5 sports car which will be fielded from 1969: the 917.
For the 1968 24h Le Mans, Porsche further develop the 908 giving her a Long Tail body (908 LH) to be more suitable for the long straights of the French track. The 908 LHs were the fastest in qualifying, but troubles with the alternator caused delays and even disqualifications as the new Porsche team leaders had misinterpreted the repair rules.
In 1969 Group 6 rules were slightly changed again and Porsche was able to reduce the weight of the 908. The ''new'' 908, called 908/2, was now a lighter spyder race car. In fact Porsche decided to shorten the LH body and remove the roof of the 908 to reduce the weight of the original 908 by 100 kg. After the unveil of the 917, the 908 started to succeed.
Despite the more powerful 917 improving towards the end of 1969, the career of the 908 continued. On rather twisty and slow tracks like Nürburgring and Targa Florio, the 917 was not suited well. In 1970 Porsche introduced the 908/3. Based upon the lightweight and short Porsche 909 which was used in hillclimb racing, the new version was even shorter than the 908/02 and only weighed 500 kg. The 908/3 was very successful at the Nürburgring and in the Targa Florio.
Listen to that flat-8 engine echoing all around the mountains of the beautiful Swiss Bernina pass!
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Bernina Gran Turismo is an event born in 2014 with the aim of keep the memory of the legendary Bernina hillclimb race of 1929 and 1930 alive. It's held on the beautiful Bernina Pass in Switzerland, on a section of the original route specifically closed to traffic, with the hilclimb course starting from La Rösa (1,871 m above sea level) and ending up on the actual Bernina Pass (2,328 m) after a total of 5.9 km. Back to those years this competition was part of the International St. Moritz Automobile Week, which consisted of a rally, the kilometer race, a skill race, a concours d'elegance and, as a conclusion, the hillclimb race. Since 2021 BGT's organizers decided to celebrate the whole International St. Moritz Automobile Week of those two years with a selection of events which recalled the original ones.
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0:00 Close ups
0:27 Heading to the start line
2:08 Hillclimb action
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It's really quite amazing Porsche never made a flat-8 road car, when you consider their success with them. I realize the flat-6 is kind of Porsche's thing, but looking across their entire range you could get a Porsche powered by a V6, V8, V10, 4-cylinder, hybrid, electric, and/or diesel. But no flat-8 available from the company that made it famous.
Thats cause a flat v12 would be impractical because it wouldn't fit in any engine bay smaller than a Mitsubishi 3000gt and even then it'd be a tight fit. Also having to take the motor out to do anything to cylinders, sparkplugs, etc etc
@@evilrooster9960he said flat 8, not 12. And I can’t imagine packaging a flat 12 would be super difficult. Ferrari had a flat 12 in the 512 TR for many years
Ferdinand Piech created 2 914/8 prototypes to demonstrate the 908's race engine in a road car. As a 60th birthday present, he gifted the second to Ferdinand Porshe, who apparently showed no interest.
It was like the Carrera GT of its day
@@christianw9263- ha just wanted to write that - I saw a dark green 914/8 birthday present to Mr Porsche car in the old Porsche Museum when it still was just one room in the works area …. Long time ago.
Well,that's a good question.
It brings back memories back when I used to
own the 911 series from late 70es to late 90es as a daydriver and often wondered about significantly improving performance overall while keeping its practicality and sticking to NA engine.I presume there was room enough inside the 911SC bodyshell to place a flat 8 into it though I never heard of such an upgrade on a 911.
Another great Porsche video. I like the old fashioned actual manual gear box changes. It sounds like a real racing car. Thanks for posting
No problem at all! Thanks for watching
Fantastic sounding car and yes, I completely agree. I’m a traditional manual transmission guy myself, and the manual shifting just adds to the fantastic sound.
This car is TINY!! Just a drivers seat with an engine…
This is a wonderfully done video. Sound and Vision. Thanks.
Just the car I want on a wet windy Swiss road. :)
Just simply the finest exhaust note in the history of the automobile…
Spectacular roads.
My favorite sports racer in my favorite colors!
Can't get over how physically small the car is
With that short wheelbase, it almost looks like a toycar.
@@vincentfeitsma Which gets to the point "You really don't want to know where your feet are. Personal recommendation, if you're gonna crash, do it backwards."
Grandioso! Grazie mille.
Di nulla!
It sounds amazing
Incredible video! Always Bozzy 🏁🇮🇹🏁!!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
The two arrows down the sides cracks me up.
🩵🩵🩵 amazing! Thank you!
No worries! A real pleasure to record it on such a beautiful road
Beautiful car.
I'm suprised Switzerland allowed this? I thought they banned motoracing after 1955? Love the car and very cool hillclimb roads. Awesome vid.
Love the "mystery machine" liveries
Beauty
Switzerland version of pikes peak
The 914 with the flat 8, gifted to Ferdinand, must also be an amazing ride! 😍😍😍😍😍
2:09
It'd be cool if there is onboard video. The 911 behind the 908 sounded mean.
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Why are there (nearly) no spectators at this event?
A mix of things in my opinion. First of all the road is closed very early in the morning and most of the people who came there to see the event arrive more calmly in mid morning, but at that time they are forced to remain in a specific public area close to the finish line (which I've never recorded so far but I would like to cover in the future). Very few spots to park the car along the course, so you need to walk and, for the same reason up there, you only have a couple of hours during lunch break to move on the road, but it's kinda dangerous as it's very busy on weekends. Even if cars are really interesting, unfortunately it's a revival hillclimb and not part of any competitive championship so it's not easy to attract public. Last but not least the weather conditions. Being at high altitudes it's always possible to find strong winds, low temperatures, low clouds/fog and showers of rain.
But I'm quite confident this event will grow little by little ;)
@@19Bozzy92 Thanks for your response. So it's allowed to spectate but the effort is high.
By the quality of cars and the spectacular road with wide view I think its worth it.
Love that babe