Porsche Issue 409 - Porsche New Zealand

Homecoming

Back to the roots: more than a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today, we bring the former Targa Florio class champion, whose nickname is Sascha, back home.

Jan Heidak driving the Austro-Daimler ADS-R in Wiener Neustadt

Jan Heidak and Workshop Manager Kuno Werner with the Austro-Daimler ADS-R in Wiener Neustadt

Austro-Daimler ADS-R

Jan Heidak driving the Austro-Daimler ADS-R in Wiener Neustadt

Jan Heidak and Workshop Manager Kuno Werner with the Austro-Daimler ADS-R in Wiener Neustadt

Alexander Graf Kolowrat, left of one of the four Sascha prototypes, Ferry Porsche (right) und his father Ferdinand (behind Ferry), Riesrennen race in Graz, Austria, 1922

Alfred Neubauer, mechanic Georg Auer and the Austro-Daimler ADS-R on the Austro‑Daimler test track, 1922

Cars and drivers returning from Targa Florio at the main entrance to the former Austro-Daimler factories, 2 April 1922

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