How FAT Pulled Off the Unlikeliest Le Mans Win Ever

"This is Time Capsule, FAT's new series revisiting the cars of the past that still have stories to tell. We kick off with one that still sounds too wild to be true."

"In 1994, Porsche was near bankruptcy, the rulebook was being rewritten, and there was no obvious car to race the annual Le Mans race. Somehow, a car carrying FAT colors won it anyway. It was a legendary 962 that had been converted into a road-legal car and then slipped back onto the grid through a regulation loophole. Against a semi-works Toyota prototype, it finished first after 24 hours, one lap ahead, after the Toyota's late gearbox failure.

The man at the center of it all was Max Welti, Porsche's team principal at the time. Here he tells us how an unlikely idea turned into one of the most remarkable victories Le Mans has ever seen...." Read more

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