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From 1981 to 1987, Porsche won the prestigious 24-Hours of Le Mans race seven times in a row. It all started with the successful 936 which was replaced by the extensively redesigned 956 in 1982. Four years later, it evolved into the 962C, one of the greatest race cars ever built.
From 1981 to 1987, Porsche made history by winning the world’s most famous endurance race seven consecutive times. The 956 along with its evolution, the 962C were the machines responsible for this feat and one of the men who got to drive them decided to build a road-legal version in the early 1990s.