1968 - 1976
Brian Redman
1971 Porsche 903/3
"There's one thing I'm slightly nervous about with this car, your feet are in front of the front wheels"
Brian Redman
The Video
One of the two noteworthy Porsche race cars entered by the prestigious Collier Automotive Collection.
Driven by celebrated international race driver
Brian Redman, this particular 908/3 went on to triumph in group 7A, albeit with a slight
incident, over the several larger displacement 917's driven by the likes of
Derek Bell and Gijs Van Lennep.
A real David and Goliath adventure!
The Car:
1971 Porsche 908/3 
1971 Porsche 908/03 chassis# 013 Flat-eight air-cooled engine, mounted midship, twin overhead camshafts, fuel-injected, 2997 cc, 360 bhp at 8400 rpm, wheelbase 90.6 inches, weight 1200 pounds.
Just 13 908/3's were produced; eleven in '69-'70, two in '71. Because of their extraordinary lightness, racing pundits predicted widespred structural failures. the pundits were wrong.
A one-two finish in both the Targa and Nurburgring in 1970 saw to that; althought the '71 targa was a driver error fraught crash out, a three car sweep of the 'Ring put the final event back on the track. The 908/3 win rate wa an astounding 75%. Even more astounding the car's basic design remained competitive for more than a decade. A 1971 configuration 908/3 won its last World Championship race at Silverstone in 1980
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