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Powered by the Type 912 flat-12 engine of 4.5, 4.9, or 5 litres, the 917/30 Can Am variant was capable of a 100 km/h time in 2.3 seconds, 200 km/h in 5.3 seconds and a top speed of up to 390 km/h.
This is not, however, representative of the majority of 917s.
The highest official speed ever clocked for a 917 at Le Mans is 362 km/h.
There are at least eleven variants of the 917. The original version had a removable long tail/medium tail with active rear wing flaps,
but had considerable handling problems at high speed because of significant rear lift.
The handling problems were investigated at a joint test at the Österreichring by the factory engineers and their new race team
partners John Wyer Engineering and after exhaustive experimentation by both groups, a shorter, more upswept tail was found to
give the car more aerodynamic stability at speed.
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This site was last updated: 14/12/16
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