40 years ago, AUTOhebdo tested the Porsche Kremer 935 K4

The Porsche Kremer 935 K4 will forever remain a specialty accessible only to a select few. Essay by Pierre Dieudonné. AH297 of December 17, 1981

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40 years ago, AUTOhebdo tested the Porsche Kremer 935 K4

Aucune autre voiture de course ne possède une personnalité aussi forte, à la fois glaciale par sa rigueur et pimentée par le souffle d’une puissance diabolique que la Porsche Kremer 935 K4. Une torpille colorée qui engloutit l’espace avec une voracité presque silencieuse. Dans un déchirement de l’air et le frou-frou sifflant de ses turbos qui crachent souvent de longues traînées enflammées. Telle est la Porsche K4 du clan Kremer, une monture de 800 chevaux pour Bob Wollek.

The Nürburg Tower overlooks a setting as cold as winter. A pure product of German technology, the K4 is the culmination of an extraordinary evolution of the Porsche 911. No other car can be compared to it. Erwin Kremer is imbued with this idea and he is not wrong. If you have the imagination flexible enough to infiltrate it into Bob Wollek's seat, come with me behind the wheel of the K4.

A strange office for Wollek.

The narrow hull of a Formula 1 protects the body of its pilot like a case with friendly walls. Flat and smooth. It takes more courage to let yourself be imprisoned by the tubular tangle of the K4. The slightest propensity towards claustrophobia would be crippling. Like getting into a war machine, you must have a sufficiently strong character to pretend to believe in its solidity and to forget to think that it could become a trap from which it would be vital to escape in a few seconds. Then, the slenderness of a gymnast is essential to successfully integrate his anatomy into this functional universe, cluttered with mechanisms which clearly reflect the complexity of the task.

Bob Wollek, qui a eu la gentillesse de venir assister à l’essai, me montre comment il faut s’y prendre pour s’installer avec une certaine adresse dans cette conduite à droite. D’abord s’asseoir sur le tube latéral du châssi

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