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54 911 hero: Günter SteckkönigTOP More Targa Florio antics, 1973.Steckkönig mainly raced for privateerteams rather than the factory squadRIGHT Herbert Linge, Steckkönig’scolleague and driving mentorBELOW With Huschke von Hanstein
55“I was lucky to work a lot withHerbert Linge… At first I was hispassenger until one day he said to me,‘Okay, you drive,’ and then he acted asmy monitor. I learned a lot from him”for owners when you bought a car. Porsche wastrying to improve this.”The following year, Bott sent him to work inDaimler Benz’s engine department on a 12-monthsecondment: “It was a huge operation with vastR&D resources and full of professors. It was myfirst experience of really brilliant engineers. Youdon’t find those sorts of people today. It reallywas a golden time.” At Mercedes-Benz he metPeter Falk, who a couple of years later wouldjump ship to Zuffenhausen. Steckkönig recalls12-hour days at Sindelfingen – the strength of theWirtschaftswunder economy was causing labourshortages. Carrying his technician’s diploma fromMercedes, he returned to Porsche and completedhis studies with an exacting practical test, whichinvolved building an alloy cylinder head; at thistime he was lucky not to lose his sight whena drip from an overhead water pipe fell ontomolten metal, and the resultant explosion shot afragment into his eye.Steckkönig remembers Werk 1 as like beingin a family: Ferry would appear and greet theReparaturwerkstatt men every day and theywould take turns to look after his cars. Bottmeanwhile had recruited his trusty VW van driverto the 911 development team and Steckkönigrecalls long drives to Ehra-Lessien, the VW provingground, as well as many miles on Swabian roadsand the Nürburgring. “The trouble with the ’Ringeven then was that on public days it was toocrowded, but then the tyre companies started
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