Porsche Legend Hans-Joachim Stuck Is 'Lucky' To Have Survived His Racing Career

Porsche Legend Hans-Joachim Stuck Still Has a 911 Porsche Hans-Joachim Stuck is about to bring his Porsche 911 T out for the Spring. The two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and three-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring is 75 years old, still well over six feet tall, and as excited as ever to get his beloved car back out on the road. "It comes back on Monday," Stuck told an assembled group of reporters ahead of this year's 12 Hours of Sebring.

His five-year-old 911 T is fittingly equipped with a PDK, the modern iteration of a family of dual-clutch transmissions that dates all the way back to Stuck's own testing in a Porsche 962 prototype . Porsche Stuck won Sebring twice in the 962, both following a 1975 win in what has become a legendary BMW . He describes the famously bumpy track as a place that requires "a lot of braveness to drive fast," and the race as "an adventure" where he would "expect the unexpected.

" In a 962, though, he found the race somewhat easier to predict. "I was always lucky," Stuck says. "With the Porsche, thanks to Norbert Singer and Roland Kussmaul and the other guys, [we had] a very special setup for Sebring.

Being in a Porsche there was not only fantastic, it was insurance. Singer, who built those cars and created those cars, for him, the driver safety was number one. So it could be said that no wheels were falling off, where other cars I drove in my career, wings were falling off and other things.