Porsche Helps a 96-Year-Old Rally Legend Relive His Greatest Victory
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Once retirement starts, plenty of folks spend that time playing golf, traveling, or simply enjoying a slower pace of life. Sobiesław Zasada evidently isn't one of them. At 96 years old, the Polish rally legend is still involved in motorsport—and his latest adventure has taken him back to Argentina, where he scored one of the biggest victories of his career almost six decades ago. To understand why this return matters, we need to go back to October 1967, when Zasada arrived in Argentina to compete in the Gran Premio Internacional de Turismo—a grueling rally that covered more than 1864 miles. The route took competitors through mountains, deserts, and flooded plains. Nearly 400 entrants took part, including teams with factory backing. Zasada, driving a red Porsche 911 affectionately nicknamed "Porschito," managed to beat them all. PorscheHis co-driver, engineer Jerzy Dobrzański, helped him navigate the challenging course, but it's how he did so that matters most: their Porsche featured an intercom system that hadn't been used in competition there. That tech might sound rather ordinary today, but in 1967, it was a genuine advantage.
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