Porsche dragracing.

This weekend i read a book that i have had in my possesion for a while..."Porsche Specials" by Jürgen Barth andLothar Boschen.
A realy enjoyable book about all the Porsche Special things buildt over the years.
A truly recomendable book!

In this book it is a story about some record cars, and among a story from 1965:

"In the 1950s and 1960s hill-climbing was nearly as important to Porsche as circuit racing, and the firm was usually successful in the European Mountain Championship.
At the end of the 1965 season Porsche's PR and Sport director, Huschke von Hanstein took a special Porsche 910 Bergspyder, with a 240bhp eight-cylinder engine, to the Hockenheimring for an assault on various short-distance world records.
By removing the alternator and rear brakes, and using a motor cycle battery, the car's weight was reduced to 485kg, and despite very wet conditions, von Hahnstein set new FIA-recognized world records over a quarter of a mile and 500 metres.
The quarter mile was covered in 11.892 seconds, with an average of 121,97kmh, and 500 metres in 13,557 seconds, an average of 132,77kmh. Both records were also recognized as international class records in Class E, up to 2 litres capacity.
Since these records attempts had gone so well, von Hanstein then tackled the world record for the standing 1000 metres, wich he covered in 22,212seconds with an average of 162,074kmh-the terminal speed, incidentally, was 240 kmh.
As a matter of intrest, the world record for the standing kilometre stood to Bernd Rosemeyer in the Auto Union Grand Prix car, wich had a 6-litre capacity and 600bhp."

So Porsche was also into "dragracing"...in their own funny way :-)