{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"The Man Who Owns Every Porsche Legend: Johan Dirickx on 911R & RS History","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/the-man-who-owns-every-porsche-legend-johan-dirickx-on-911r-rs-history","audioUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/883537/episodes/19232997-the-man-who-owns-every-porsche-legend-johan-dirickx-on-911r-rs-history.mp3","description":"In this episode of 9WERKS Radio, Lee Sibley is trackside with one of the most respected Porsche collectors on the planet: Johan Dirickx.Johan’s collection is the stuff of legend, featuring a staggering array of RS and RSR Porsches, the rare SC RS, and the \"Holy Grail\" itself: an original 1967 Porsche 911R. We sit down to discuss the origins of Johan’s obsession, what specifically separates Porsche from every other marque, and the technical \"soul\" of the early R cars.Finally, we put Johan on the spot to settle the greatest debate in the air-cooled community: 964 vs 993. Which of these two icons truly represents the pinnacle of the air-cooled era?Find your dream Porsche on the 9WERKS Marketplace: 9werks.co.uk/marketplace Thanks to our friends heritagepartscentre.com for sponsoring this podcast, get up to 10% off your basket by entering the code ‘9WERKS10’ at the checkout on heritagepartscentre.com‘9WERKS Radio’ @9werks.radio is your dedicated Porsche and car podcast, taking you closer than ever to the world’s finest sports cars and the culture and history behind them.The show is brought to you by 9werks.co.uk, the innovative online platform for Porsche enthusiasts. Hosted by Porsche Journalist Lee Sibley @9werks_lee, and 911 owner and engineer Andy Brookes @993andy, with special input from friends and experts around the industry, including you, our valued listeners.If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us by joining the 9WERKS Driven Not Hidden Collective you can do so by hitting the link below, your support would be greatly appreciated.Support the show"},"annotations":[{"startTime":30.86,"endTime":37.86,"type":"car","title":"Porsche 356","url":"/cars/porsche/356","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Porsche_356_1600_Super_%281963%29_-_9700716044.jpg","quote":"Get up to 10% off your basket for all manner of porches from 356 to 997 inclusive plus the mid-engine and transaxle porches by using the code NineWorks10 at heritagepartcenter.com.","canonicalId":"car:porsche:356","priority":0.25,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Porsche 356 is the early, air-cooled Porsche that helped establish the brand’s sports-car identity. 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The host is saying it’s getting harder to find cars that qualify and are still for sale."}},{"startTime":1279.0,"endTime":1286.1,"type":"term","title":"matching numbers","url":"/glossary/matching-numbers","quote":"when at a certain moment I found the original engine laying around in Florida. So I joined the original engine with the car, which is of course unique because in race cars, matching numbers is not that important.","canonicalId":"term:matching-numbers","priority":0.9,"confidence":0.92,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"“Matching numbers” means the engine (and sometimes other major components) are the original ones that correspond to the car’s documented identity. The host contrasts race-car priorities—where matching numbers often mattered less—with collector priorities, where finding the original engine can make the car more valuable and historically satisfying.","simplifiedExplanation":"“Matching numbers” is when the car’s key parts—especially the engine—are the original ones that were meant to be with that specific car. The host says race teams didn’t always care about that back then, but collectors do."}},{"startTime":1327.2,"endTime":1334.3,"type":"term","title":"RS-hologation","url":"/glossary/rs-hologation","quote":"But you've also have a 2.7 RS, well, lightweight, but it's an RSH, isn't it, an RS-hologation, one of 17? [1334.3s] 17, yeah.","canonicalId":"term:rs-hologation","priority":0.7,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"“Homologation” (here misheard as “hologation”) is the process of building a limited number of road cars so they qualify to race in a specific category. 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This is why he values the car so highly.","simplifiedExplanation":"In this episode, “lightweight” means the Porsche was built to be lighter than a normal one. The host says it uses thinner steel to save weight, which is part of why these versions are rare and desirable. Lighter cars often feel more special and more “purpose-built.”"}},{"startTime":1485.6,"endTime":1495.6,"type":"term","title":"chassis numbers","url":"/glossary/chassis-numbers","quote":"Even the factory has only I think five or six chassis numbers where they can tell you what is homologated on the car. On my car, they cannot tell it.","canonicalId":"term:chassis-numbers","priority":0.6,"confidence":0.78,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Chassis numbers are the unique identifiers assigned to each car, used to track build details and (in this case) what was homologated. 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That’s usually what people mean when they talk about “numbers matching.”"}},{"startTime":1797.1,"endTime":1811.6,"type":"company","title":"Prodrive","url":"/glossary/prodrive","quote":"I was lucky enough, for example, to buy the archive of Prodrive with all the written down notes of all the rallies.","canonicalId":"company:prodrive","priority":0.3,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Prodrive is a motorsport and engineering company known for building and supporting race programs. Here, it’s mentioned because the guest bought Prodrive’s archive containing detailed rally notes tied to specific Porsche chassis.","simplifiedExplanation":"Prodrive is a company that works in racing. 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For collectors, rally results and records help confirm the history of a specific race car."}},{"startTime":1827.0,"endTime":1838.0,"type":"place","title":"Abbeville","url":"/glossary/abbeville","quote":"Second thing is, I organized a 25 years reunion here in Abbeville that also helped me to start knowing people who were involved in the project...","canonicalId":"place:abbeville","priority":0.25,"confidence":0.86,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Abbeville is a town in France that the guest references as the location for organizing a 25-year reunion. In enthusiast circles, reunions like this often help connect owners, drivers, and historians to reconstruct the history of rare cars.","simplifiedExplanation":"Abbeville is a place in France. The guest says he organized a reunion there, which helped him meet people connected to the project and learn more about the cars."}},{"startTime":1963.8,"endTime":2052.26,"type":"car","title":"911 R","url":"/cars/porsche/911","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/2025_Porsche_992_Carrera_convertible_DSC_7024_%28cropped%29.jpg","quote":"Can we, can we please talk about the 911 R? Because there, most people, the every man and woman enthusiast knows about the 2016 R. Some people know about the 1967 R.","canonicalId":"car:porsche:911 r","priority":0.95,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Porsche 911 R is a special, lightweight 911 built to feel like a race car for the road. In this episode it’s treated as a high point of early Porsche engineering, and the host connects its design DNA to later “race 911” models. 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Later, Porsche shifted toward making true race cars from the 911 platform."}},{"startTime":2021.7,"endTime":2046.1,"type":"person","title":"Ferdinand Piech","url":"/glossary/ferdinand-piech-53254317-2017-4025-be0c-87c38d2a6a6f","quote":"it was a young engineer called Ferdinand Piech that came into the factory. And they told him, well, the first thing you have to start with or one of the first jobs was making a race car out of a 911.","canonicalId":"person:ferdinand-piech","priority":0.75,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Ferdinand Piech is a key Porsche executive/engineer figure credited here with pushing the idea of turning a 911 into a race car. In this segment, he’s described as arriving at the factory and being tasked with making a race car out of the 911—starting the broader program. The host also credits him with creating the lightest 911 up to that point and with the plan to build a limited run of cars.","simplifiedExplanation":"Ferdinand Piech is an important Porsche figure who, according to the guest, helped drive the shift toward making the 911 into a real race car. The story here is that he was brought in and told to start with a 911 and turn it into something built for racing. That’s why he’s tied to the origin of the 911 R concept and its legacy."}},{"startTime":2075.7,"endTime":2086.9,"type":"term","title":"prototype category","url":"/glossary/prototype-category","quote":"So the car had to run when it ran in race, had to run in the prototype category against the other cars, 312s and stuff like that.","canonicalId":"term:prototype-category","priority":0.6,"confidence":0.85,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"A prototype category is a racing class for purpose-built race cars that aren’t based on production models. 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The point is that the Porsche 911 R had race-oriented parts made from composite materials, even if it doesn’t look dramatically different at first glance."}},{"startTime":2226.0,"endTime":2226.0,"type":"term","title":"homologated","url":"/glossary/homologated","quote":"And the 2.7 RS is a homologated\nPorsche race car that came along six years later on.","canonicalId":"term:homologated","priority":0.85,"confidence":0.92,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Homologation is the process of meeting racing rules by building a road-legal version of a race car (or a closely related version) in sufficient numbers. In this context, it explains why Porsche’s 2.7 RS is described as a homologated race car—because it was made to qualify for competition.","simplifiedExplanation":"Homologation means a race car has to be made “street legal” (or close to it) so it can compete. The idea is that the race version isn’t just a one-off—it’s based on something Porsche could sell to the public."}},{"startTime":2284.0,"endTime":2292.7,"type":"term","title":"Monza record run","url":"/glossary/monza-record-run","quote":"But white and red came from the Monza record run. The Monza record run, for a long time,\npeople believed that it was white and green, because it was a BP sponsored car.","canonicalId":"term:monza-record-run","priority":0.7,"confidence":0.7,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"A Monza record run refers to Porsche’s attempt to set performance records at Monza, which influenced the car’s livery details. 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The host argues that the single-turbo Porsche 935 drives differently from the more-discussed twin-turbo version, which affects how power arrives and how the car feels on track.","simplifiedExplanation":"A “single turbo” setup uses one turbocharger to make extra power. The host is saying that this changes how the car delivers power compared with a twin-turbo version."}},{"startTime":2632.7,"endTime":2645.2,"type":"term","title":"double turbos","url":"/glossary/double-turbos","quote":"because everybody's talking about the double turbos, and the double turbos drive better and the single turbos differently.","canonicalId":"term:double-turbos","priority":0.75,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"“Double turbos” refers to a twin-turbo arrangement where two turbochargers are used to boost engine airflow. In this context, the host contrasts it with the single-turbo 935, claiming the twin-turbo cars drive better while the single-turbo cars behave differently.","simplifiedExplanation":"“Double turbos” means the engine has two turbochargers instead of one. The host is comparing how that setup changes the driving feel versus the single-turbo version."}},{"startTime":2650.4,"endTime":2684.7,"type":"person","title":"Norbert Singer","url":"/glossary/norbert-singer","quote":"What Norbert Singer did with that was absolutely, I mean, trying to find the loophole in the regulations and make you some the enemy, because everybody's tried BMW, tried it, Ford tried it.","canonicalId":"person:norbert-singer","priority":0.7,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Norbert Singer is a prominent Porsche race-car engineer known for designing cars that exploited racing regulations through clever aerodynamic solutions. Here, the host credits Singer with finding a “loophole” in the rules that helped create the Porsche 935’s distinctive front-end and overall aero package.","simplifiedExplanation":"Norbert Singer is an engineer associated with Porsche’s race cars. The host is saying he was smart about using the rules to design a car that could be faster and more effective aerodynamically."}},{"startTime":2663.3,"endTime":2674.2,"type":"concept","title":"loophole in the regulations","url":"/glossary/loophole-in-the-regulations","quote":"What Norbert Singer did with that was absolutely, I mean, trying to find the loophole in the regulations and make you some the enemy, because everybody's tried BMW, tried it, Ford tried it.","canonicalId":"concept:loophole-in-the-regulations","priority":0.5,"confidence":0.8,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"In racing, a “loophole in the regulations” means exploiting ambiguities or specific rule wording to gain an advantage that the rules didn’t intend. The host frames Singer’s work as finding a regulatory path that competitors (BMW, Ford) couldn’t match, leading to the Porsche 935’s distinctive effectiveness.","simplifiedExplanation":"In racing rules, a “loophole” is a gap or wording in the regulations that teams can use to build something faster. The host is saying Singer found a way to use the rules that other big manufacturers couldn’t."}},{"startTime":2710.6,"endTime":2716.0,"type":"car","title":"Porsche 956","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/1983_Porsche_956-101_FOS21_Kenwood.jpg","quote":"And some people say, well, it's a 956, 962. Yes, they were amazing cars.","canonicalId":"car:porsche:956","priority":0.8,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Porsche 956 is a mid-1980s Porsche Group C prototype race car that competed at the top level of endurance racing. Here it’s mentioned as an alternative to the 935, with the guest arguing that the 911-based approach was more gratifying. The point is the contrast between purpose-built prototypes and race cars derived from the 911.","simplifiedExplanation":"The Porsche 956 was a purpose-built race prototype Porsche used in endurance racing. In this discussion, it’s brought up to compare different ways Porsche built race cars—either starting from a prototype or starting from the 911. The guest prefers the 911-to-race-car route.","imageAttribution":"MrWalkr (CC BY-SA 4.0)"}},{"startTime":2716.0,"endTime":2724.0,"type":"car","title":"Porsche 962","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/1987_Porsche_UK_962.jpg","quote":"962. Yes, they were amazing cars. But in my opinion, making a successful race car out of a 911...","canonicalId":"car:porsche:962","priority":0.75,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Porsche 962 is the successor to the 956 in Porsche’s Group C prototype era, also designed for endurance racing. In this segment, it’s grouped with the 956 as “amazing cars,” but the guest still argues that the 911-derived 935 story is more compelling. It’s part of the broader comparison between prototypes and 911-based race cars.","simplifiedExplanation":"The Porsche 962 is another famous Porsche race prototype from the same endurance-racing family as the 956. The guest mentions it as impressive, but he’s making a different point: he thinks it’s more special when Porsche turns a 911 into a race winner. That’s why the 935 gets the spotlight here.","imageAttribution":"kitmasterbloke (CC BY 2.0)"}},{"startTime":2724.0,"endTime":2771.1,"type":"car","title":"Porsche 935","url":"/cars/porsche/911","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/2025_Porsche_992_Carrera_convertible_DSC_7024_%28cropped%29.jpg","quote":"But in my opinion, making a successful race car out of a 911, the way they did it with the 935 is much, much more gratifying than with the prototypes...\n...most people know the 935, probably know it because it's slam nose.","canonicalId":"car:porsche:911","priority":0.85,"confidence":0.95,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Porsche 935 is a legendary 1970s race car built around the 911 platform, but heavily developed for endurance racing. In this segment, Johan Dirickx contrasts it with prototype race cars and argues that turning a 911 into a successful race weapon (like the 935) is especially satisfying. 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The speaker uses it to compare the 964 3.8’s chassis behavior to the 993 and the 3.6 narrowbody, arguing the 3.8 feels better planted without extra “gimmicks.”","simplifiedExplanation":"Road holding means how well the tires grip the road when you’re turning or driving hard. Higher road holding makes the car feel more stable and predictable in corners."}},{"startTime":2898.3,"endTime":2923.4,"type":"term","title":"oversteer","url":"/glossary/oversteer","quote":"in the way that the rear of the car behaves. And yet the nose of the car is more predictable,\n\nmore planted, I would say, than the 3.6 narrowbody car.","canonicalId":"term:oversteer","priority":0.45,"confidence":0.55,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Oversteer is when the rear of the car loses grip more than the front, causing the car to rotate and potentially slide. The speaker describes how the rear behavior feels and how the nose becomes more predictable and planted, which is essentially a discussion of how the car manages oversteer at the limit.","simplifiedExplanation":"Oversteer is when the back of the car starts to slide out more than the front. The speaker is saying this Porsche feels more predictable and easier to control because the front stays planted."}},{"startTime":2937.0,"endTime":2956.0,"type":"term","title":"drift","url":"/glossary/drift","quote":"And the 3.6, if you can drift to 3.6, you're a great driver because the way your suspension is made in the front makes it very\n\ndifficult to have the counter steering that you need to go sideways.\n\nWhereas with the 3.8, you can go much, much farther.","canonicalId":"term:drift","priority":0.5,"confidence":0.85,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"In this context, “drift” means intentionally driving with the car rotated relative to its direction of travel—typically a controlled oversteer slide. The speaker contrasts how far you can push the 964 3.8 versus the 3.6 narrowbody, and notes that the 3.8 is easier to get back under control.","simplifiedExplanation":"Here, “drift” means sliding the car sideways on purpose while keeping it under control. The speaker is saying the 3.8 makes that easier than the 3.6."}},{"startTime":2937.0,"endTime":2944.1,"type":"term","title":"counter steering","url":"/glossary/counter-steering","quote":"And the 3.6, if you can drift to 3.6, you're a great driver because the way your suspension is made in the front makes it very\n\ndifficult to have the counter steering that you need to go sideways.","canonicalId":"term:counter-steering","priority":0.55,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Counter steering is the steering input you use to manage oversteer—turning the wheel opposite the direction the car is sliding so you can regain control. 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