I've just been reading the 964RS and Cup section of "Excellence Was Expected" ...the bit about Tiptronic Cup cars
Hacki, is the later part of this about your Tip Cup being driven at the 'Ring by Walter Röhrl?...
Excellence Was Expected. Volume 3. Page 1141
"¦With the Cup series promoting the new Carrera 2, could this be a way to advertise the Tiptronic? The first attempt to answer this question was made by Roland Kussmaul with two experimental Carrera 2s, both weight-reduced but with the Tiptronic car carrying a 66-pound penalty. Neither car had a limited-slip differential, because this was not feasible with the Tiptronic. In January 1990 Kussmaul took the two cars to Vallelunga and Bari in Italy where the weather would allow him to make a comparison"¦
"¦These tests were so promising that one of the factory's own Cup cars was Tiptronic-equipped. Kussmaul was again chauffeur for a comparative test of the North Loop of the Nürburgring on June 5, 1990. He covered 24 laps of the circuit, some 300 miles, with no mechanical problems. In a fastest lap times at just under 8 minutes, 13 seconds the difference in time was only 0.15 second, in favor of the manual shift"¦
"¦After his January test in Italy, Roland Kussmaul counselled as follows: "If a VIP car is to be entered with Tiptronic, only good drivers should be used for the first races so that through their good results, drivers of average skill will choose the Tiptronic option." This advice could not have been better followed than by the engagement of Walter Rohrl to take the wheel of the automatic car for a four-lap race on the "˜Ring on June 16. If anyone could get the best from the Tip Carrera it was the experienced Röhrl.
On the day, Walter had only one problem. Roland Kussmaul had told him that the transmission could stand three or four sudden starts made by revving the engine to 6,000 in neutral and moving the lever into "D". Since only one start was necessary, he suggested that Röhrl give it a try. The German, however, was too sensitive to his machinery to treat it with such brutality and was unable to make up the many places he lost at the start. Nor was the lack of limited-slip differential a help to Röhrl. "Only thanks to his smooth driving style on the North Loop," Jost Capito reported from the "˜Ring, "was the handicap of a missing limited-slip differential of no consequence to Mr. Röhrl."
Hacki, is the later part of this about your Tip Cup being driven at the 'Ring by Walter Röhrl?...
Excellence Was Expected. Volume 3. Page 1141
"¦With the Cup series promoting the new Carrera 2, could this be a way to advertise the Tiptronic? The first attempt to answer this question was made by Roland Kussmaul with two experimental Carrera 2s, both weight-reduced but with the Tiptronic car carrying a 66-pound penalty. Neither car had a limited-slip differential, because this was not feasible with the Tiptronic. In January 1990 Kussmaul took the two cars to Vallelunga and Bari in Italy where the weather would allow him to make a comparison"¦
"¦These tests were so promising that one of the factory's own Cup cars was Tiptronic-equipped. Kussmaul was again chauffeur for a comparative test of the North Loop of the Nürburgring on June 5, 1990. He covered 24 laps of the circuit, some 300 miles, with no mechanical problems. In a fastest lap times at just under 8 minutes, 13 seconds the difference in time was only 0.15 second, in favor of the manual shift"¦
"¦After his January test in Italy, Roland Kussmaul counselled as follows: "If a VIP car is to be entered with Tiptronic, only good drivers should be used for the first races so that through their good results, drivers of average skill will choose the Tiptronic option." This advice could not have been better followed than by the engagement of Walter Rohrl to take the wheel of the automatic car for a four-lap race on the "˜Ring on June 16. If anyone could get the best from the Tip Carrera it was the experienced Röhrl.
On the day, Walter had only one problem. Roland Kussmaul had told him that the transmission could stand three or four sudden starts made by revving the engine to 6,000 in neutral and moving the lever into "D". Since only one start was necessary, he suggested that Röhrl give it a try. The German, however, was too sensitive to his machinery to treat it with such brutality and was unable to make up the many places he lost at the start. Nor was the lack of limited-slip differential a help to Röhrl. "Only thanks to his smooth driving style on the North Loop," Jost Capito reported from the "˜Ring, "was the handicap of a missing limited-slip differential of no consequence to Mr. Röhrl."
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