Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and eight 12-hour wins at Sebring, and upon all of them can be found the fingerprints of Norbert Singer. A 30-year-old graduate engineer with a Masters in Mechanical Engineer, Aviation and Space Technology when he joined Porsche in the spring of 1970, Singer’s first assignment was to improve the cooling of the gearbox on the 917 and solve nagging fuel-pickup…
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