From next week, Motorworld Region Stuttgart will become a Mecca for sports car fans. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Interseries - the most powerful racing class in the world - it will be making a fascinating motorsport experience possible over the coming months: the special exhibition "Big Bangers" will show eleven sports prototypes, including a 1,200 hp Porsche 917 from the Porsche Museum's collection - the most successful and fastest Interseries car of all time. The exhibition will be on display with changing exhibits from June 29 to October 11, 2020.
50 years ago, the Interseries was launched as the European counterpart to the American Canadian-American Challenge Cup at the Stuttgart "Motor Sport Freizeit" trade fair, today's CMT, by the Nuremberg and Stuttgart motorsport clubs. To mark the occasion, the PR and event agency Solitude featured by COMCO, in cooperation with the communications agency In.Fact and Motorworld Region Stuttgart, will be presenting a special show featuring a range of vehicles that shaped this legendary racing series and earned it the nickname "Big Bangers". Visitors can look forward to the motorsport brands Porsche, Ferrari, McLaren etc.
"As spectators are currently not allowed on racetracks, we are making the fascination of motorsport an alternative experience at Motorworld Region Stuttgart," says Tobias Aichele, Managing Director of Solitude GmbH. "We have realized the show according to a pop-up concept, in the implementation of which we have attached great importance to a historically accurate time period."
For this reason, the big PS show will begin on June 28, 2020 with a pre-opening for contemporary witnesses, as the first race at the Norisring was held exactly 50 years ago on this Sunday. Jürgen Neuhaus, winner of the first race and overall winner of the first championship year in a Porsche 917, will be among the guests. The exhibition will open on June 29, 2020. It will end on October 11, 2020, the day on which the last Interseries race of the year was held at the Hockenheimring 50 years earlier.
12 cylinders and 1,200 horsepower: the Porsche 917/30
The range of vehicles on display reflects the significant years of this racing class, in which Group C vehicles also competed in the end. The regulations gave the designers an unusual amount of freedom. The Porsche 917/30, the last evolutionary stage of the twelve-cylinder racing cars with up to 1200 turbo hp, marked the pinnacle of performance.
The Porsche Museum is contributing the most successful Interseries car ever: the Porsche 917/30-001, which won seven Interseries races between 1973 and 1975 - with former racing driver Vic Elford at the wheel, among others. Porsche vehicles dominated the European Interseries from 1970 to 1974 with the Type 917. The championship winners were Jürgen Neuhaus (917 Coupé) in 1970, Leo Kinunnen (917 Coupé and 917/10 Spyder) from 1971 to 1973 and Herbert Müller (917/30 Spyder) in 1974.
Vehicles from private collections
Private collectors also opened their garages and contributed to the exhibition. Bernd Becker, for example, contributed a Porsche 910, in which he has been taking part in races and demonstration drives worldwide for 47 years without interruption. A Porsche 908 commemorates Niki Lauda's Interseries starts.
To commemorate the inaugural race at the Norisring, the exhibits are lined up as they were on the starting grid on June 28, 1970. The Porsche 914/6 safety car, which originally belonged to the squadron of the highest national sports commission for motor sport in Germany and was driven by Herbert Linge, is also part of the exhibition. The 914 is provided by Recaro.
A paddock scene with a Porsche racing service and a Service 911 from this era round off the exhibition at Motorworld.
The opening hours of Motorworld Region Stuttgart:
Monday to Saturday: 7.30 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Sunday and public holidays: 10.00 - 20.00 hrs
Further information can be found on the exhibition website.
