Chapter 13, Page 311 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 26: Porsche 911 Carrera—Equality in Race Cars (Could Prove the Drivers). This chapter is dated 1973. Right after a victory, the Porsche people offer the Penske people the opportunity to run a brand new type of Porsche 911 designed for racing conditions. Mark says sure, as long as he can work with Flegl. This is not viewed as a problem, so the German is included in the "deal." There is an incredible anti-skid system created and implemented by this team. Mark writes about how bizarre it is for him to actually take this system to its limits. He tests it for hours. He writes that it works so well that it is hard for him to develop enough trust in the technology to test its full capabilities. He goes further towards corners before braking and the anti-skid braking system proves...