Le Mans winner Timo Bernhard, who joined Ickx on the revealing of the overhauled automotive, discovered the expertise of the Dakar racer fascinating. “I bear in mind extraordinary rally scenes by which the helicopters had been unable to comply with the automobiles as a result of they had been going so quick,” says Bernhard.

Now almost 4 many years later, Ickx summed up the primary race in three phrases: “Reminiscences, feelings, ardour.”

Head of the Museum Workshop, Kuno Werner, the reveal is  one thing very particular: “The 959 stood idle for a few years earlier than being given the chance of an entire new reunion with its unique driver on this snow and grit. This has been a supply of satisfaction for our whole Porsche Heritage and Museum group.”