A Kremer Porsche on the Europabrücke in Zurich
One wondered what a racing car of this class was doing in the most car-hostile city in Europe. A Kremer-Porsche 917, a genuine sports prototype, recently drove over Zurich's Europabrücke bridge at night and in the fog and was therefore allowed to paralyze traffic for a whole hour under the supervision of the city police. At first, this reminded me of the notorious actions of the 51-year-old Czech who fooled the Czech police for years with his GP2 car when he would appear out of nowhere and drive a few kilometers on the national highways somewhere in the middle of traffic. But as mentioned, the night-time appearance of the Kremer-Porsche 917 K/81, the last of its kind, took place with official authorization after it had circled the Nordschleife twice just a few weeks ago.
The freshly restored 917 K/81 at the Nürburgring
It was initially assumed that this could be an advertising shoot for Auto Zürich, but this turned out to be a rumor. But now, according to Blick, it has been clarified - according to one of the people involved, the tabloid was in on the action from the start - what actually happened last Monday evening at 9pm:
Raceline AG, owned by Porsche specialist and collector Florian Feustel from Schaffhausen, rebuilt the car in around 4500 hours of work. Perhaps in the euphoria of its success, they came up with the idea of shooting a film with the car, which is not licensed for road use, on the Europabrücke bridge in Zurich. No sooner said than done: what nobody should have expected beforehand became reality and the police gave the go-ahead. It was important to keep things at a very low altitude, otherwise resistance could have been expected. For this reason, everything happened very quickly.
The car was unloaded, drove once from Altstetten in the direction of Höngg and back again, which was captured with various cameras in both moving and static images. The resulting video is now available on YouTube. To appease the greens of the city of Zurich, the Porsche 917 ran on CO2-neutral gasoline. To this end, part of the proceeds will be donated to charity after the documentary is published.
I still remember well when Marc Webber drove over the Sydney Harbour Bridge at 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning in 2005, a week before the season opener in Melbourne, in the BMW-Williams FW26B, which was still screeching really loudly at the time. It's a safe bet that the whole of Sydney was awake in bed within seconds.
