Norbert Singer fan club members and activities

Herr Singer is doing lectures, with more & more students. And he does analysis for ACO for WEC races.

Please help him get an invitation to attend the next Rennsport in Laguna, California, set for October 2015. That is a fantastic event (https://www.pca.org/news/2014-10-09/official-rennsport-reunion-v-be-held-laguna-seca-october-2015) & is just perfect for Herr Norbert Singer, whose brilliance, leadership & determination was behind so many of those fantastic Porsches. Let them (the Rennsport folks) know you'd like to meet him there & when you do see him, be sure to let him know you're in the Norbert Singer Fan Club. Tell him how much we all appreciate what he's done. He's a great guy. You'll like him. Ask him to show you our secret handshake. Haha.

Meanwhile, another interesting Singer article appeared in 911 & Porsche World magazine, the best source for interesting, deep & historic Porsche stories. This article traced development of the Martini RSRs, which benefited greatly from Herr Norbert Singer's out-of-the-box creativity. And to get more webtraffic, please note that one of the photos below includes some nudity.

    Herr Singer is still a consultant for ACO and does analysis from the WEC and sometimes ALMS races. He will be at Spa in early May and of course at the LeMans 24 hour race.

    He is making a presentation about Porsche and LeMans in St. Pölten, Austria.

    He also conducts special tours through the Porsche Museum, telling special, personal stories, about the cars there. This is material above and beyond what you get from the official tour guides there, which is already quite good, and this comes directly from Singer, the man himself.

    This author has enjoyed a personal tour by Herr Singer of his Porsche race car creations, and has enjoyed Singer's presentations on other occasions. It is hard to describe just how fantastic it is to hear his personal stories of his thinking, engineering and leadership behind these world-conquering race cars, the teams, and the associated players and personalities. He is also a really nice guy that loves to answer your questions. Imagine the wonderful stories, such as you can read about in his book 24:16, as they come alive to you directly in person, unfiltered and unedited, by the man himself that made it all happen. You really ought to buy 24:16 and take it to one of his tours at the Porsche Museum for the time of your life. You could ask him, for example, "Why can't I remove the rain channels on my 911 to lower aerodynamic drag?" (hint: see page 60 of 24:16) His description of overcoming the amazing engineering challenges behind the braking system for a Le Mans-winning car is by itself worth the trip.

Although the specifics are, as always, covered in secrecy, racing fans the world over can take comfort in knowing that he's still involved in racing. Now that Porsche may be competing at LeMans for 2013, could he be involved? Good luck getting anything official on that, but it would be hard to see how Porsche could not ask Herr Singer to help.
Enjoy the excellent piece by Bill Oursler about Singer's masterful navigation of the Dauer 962 through the rule book & the field of the world's top competitors to LeMans overall victory number 13, in Porsche Panorama, October 2012.

Herr Singer was the Tech Presenter and Dinner Speaker at the Zone 1 Tech Tactics event, held at Farnbacher Loles shop in Danbury Ct 28 February 2009.
http://zone1.pca.org/

This is already a fantastic event. I understand it to be the largest and most respected, with some of the best Porsche speakers world-wide. Consistent with that reputation, this year they're featuring Herr Singer. You can hear his address twice. He'll sign your copy of his book 24:16 They'll also have Singer Fan Club buttons (wear it to races and get pit access! OK, maybe not. But it's cool and shows you know The Man), you can take part in the "Norbert Singer Mass Fan Club Induction," and even learn the secret handshake!

Herr Singer addressed a packed room, one otherwise large enough to hold a formal ballroom dance, and that with room leftover for some Can-Am cars, all enjoying his first-hand accounts of developing Porsche's world-beating race cars. A warm, informal address, quite informative, and punctuated with genuine humor. You need to catch one of his presentations, even if you don't care about race car development, per se. It is a fascinating view of a brilliant and creative mind, ahead of its peers, much as they say it was like to listen to Beethovan discuss his thoughts at the town square.

He's also consulting for race teams and teaching, such as the "Technische Hochschule" at Esslingen, which also has a race team.

And his book (see below) has been a great hit! Singer is also a photographer and put a great number of never-before-seen photos in his book, along with the kind of behind the scenes commentary that only The Man Who Actually Did It, can add! This is not a book about someone like Singer, it's by Singer.

Fortunately for all of us, you'll frequently catch him at the more significant races worldwide. Be sure to tell him you're a Member. Even better, get his book and bring it with you for him to sign.

The official announcement is a little too subdued, like Singer himself. But Herr Singer is also known, and appreciated, for telling the whole story, without corporate embellishments which can make the official news so bland. It should be a great book! They're expecting a sellout. Get one now.

The 24:16 Book launch was, appropriately, at LeMans, which Singer owns. (OK that's a US slang phrase, don't anyone go get offended)
From the left are Martin Allerton (Managing Director of Polygon and Executive Editor of the book), Michael Cotton (author of the book), Norbert Singer and Stephane Ortelli (1998 le mans winner and current Aston Martin works-driver).

Herr Singer has retired from Porsche, but is still quite active supporting Porsche RSR customers. Recently he was testing at P. Ricard France, and Misano Italy. Then it was Istanbul for the LeMans European Series.

Fan Club member Denis Bourquardez sends us this shot above of Singer at Paul Ricard. He's helping with Porsche's RS Spyder, campaigned by Roger Penske in the American LeMans Series.

Christophorous' excellent article about Herr Singer's retirement includes his comments about his favorite Porsches.here(pdf)

The Porsche Carrera GT - very much an "appearance" by Norbert Singer as we suspected all along.

Herr Singer at one of Trackschedule's Test Days

Daytona Rennsport Reunion
(and other appearances)
2004

Photos here of Norbert Singer's visit - he was a concours judge for 956s and 962s, etc. How intimidating is that?

The ACO awarded Herr Singer its "Spirit of LeMans", placing him with Derek Bell, Paul Frere and Dr. Piech.

Porsche says Singer is working on the Cayenne windshield wipers - a new plan to win LeMan from the "Car Parts Class"? Or, something bigger, like a Moby Dick Cayenne!?!....->

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