Le Mans legends come face to face

One of the world's best sportscar racers – two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Allan McNish – fulfilled a long-held ambition by driving one of the most successful endurance machines in history, the iconic Porsche 962C. Then he wrote about it for AUTOSPORT

Published Aug 22, 2012, 12:34 PM

My first thought on climbing aboard the Porsche 962C? It's a Norbert Singer car!

I feel immediately at home. Sitting there in a 21-year-old Group C car didn't feel so different from being inside the Porsches I drove in the late 1990s. But then Norbert was the brains behind the 962 as well as the 911 GT1 cars I raced.

The ergonomics inside, the sliding Recaro seat and the dog-leg synchro gearbox - basically the same transmission that we had in 1997 on the 911 GT1 - all take me back. And there's so much space in the cockpit, a far cry from my Audi R15 TDI. That's the first thing that strikes me: how much room there is.