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Chopard Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx Edition Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times, attained P1 eight times and 25 podium finishes in Formula One, won the Can-Am Championship in 1979 and the Dakar Rally in 1983. As ...  

And yes, i knew mr. Ickx had a great 'dry' sense of humor as well, most Belgian car-nutters are like that :-) Bim

Jacky Ickx's Porsche 936 (1976) Derek Bell's Porsche 962 (1987) L-R: Porsche 911 RSR (1974), 917 (1971), 550 (1958), 904 (1964) Porsche 908 (1970) August Deutsch and Steve McQueen ...  

It was a confirmation of the feeling that I get when driving my old Lotus quickly - I don\'t feel too safe due to the design and the fact it\'s 44 years old. On the other hand it\'s "pure" driving. I liked his observations about meeting the people outside... 

We will do a review of the Chopard Jacky Ickx watch series, of course, when there is a Mk VI. Although I told Jacky that we did not know before the 2015 Le Mans race that a limited edition Chopard Superfast Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx watch would be announced,... 

Jacky Ickx and team mate Ronnie Peterson drove old Lotus 72 cars instead of the undeveloped "newer" Lotus 76 cars. They even make 'Franken-cars' using front ends of Lotus 76 grafted onto the rear of Lotus 72 cars; money was tight! ...  

Mario Andretti is driving this one ...  

How cool is that? I know that the mantra of the era was lightness makes you go faster everywhere. That may explain the smaller front tyre just big enough to do its job whereas the fat rear tyre has to lay down drive traction. In the painting, it looks lik... 

And photo of the art taken from an angle to reduce glare. I\'m not sure they would adjust both diameter and width on those F1 cars that were turning both left and right. Mike

Much appreciated!

It was an excitng time. All the Porsche 'family' were there; real and 'adopted'...Jacky Ickx, Derek Bell, Wolfgang Porsche, all the top Porsche executives and new partners Chopard. After 17 years away, Porsche had a chance of winning Le Mans again and bre...