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Röhrl, the ‘Ring and a Carrera GT

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

1 June 2021

After 15 years as a professional rally driver and several decades as a Porsche development hand, Walter Röhrl is so full of fascinating stories you want to grab him by the ankles and shake him until they all fall out.

Here is another one, told directly to me earlier this month by the great man himself. Like so many of the best Röhrl stories it involves the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The following takes place around 2004.

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