12 Facts About Porsche 804

Porsche 804 is a single-seat, open-wheeled racing car produced by Porsche to compete in Formula One.

Porsche 804 would focus on building a brand new competitive formula race car with an eight-cylinder engine.

Porsche 804 is the son of Ferdinand Anton Ernst "Ferry" Porsche, and grandson of the company's eponymous founder Ferdinand Porsche.

Porsche 804 is a part of the collection of the Porsche Museum.

The Porsche 804 was narrower and lower, with a smoother surface than its predecessor that was achieved in part by using a horizontal cooling fan on top of the new flat-eight engine, in contrast to the vertically mounted cooling fan used on the four-cylinder Fuhrmann engine.

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Porsche 804 debuted at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on 20 May This was the debut race for the Lotus 25 monocoque chassis.

The Porsche 804 team was under instructions from Ferry Porsche 804 that the cars should be returned to Stuttgart if they did not perform well in practice.

Ferry Porsche 804 was reluctant to commit to another race, reportedly ready to cancel the program at that point.

Porsche 804 only held the lead until the third lap, when he was passed by Graham Hill.

Gurney's Porsche 804 finished third behind Hill's BRM and John Surtees' Lola.

Huschke von Hanstein announced that the company was withdrawing from F1 to concentrate on endurance racing and the European Hillclimb Championship and that, officially, Ferry Porsche 804 felt that owners of Porsche 804's production cars could not relate to the F1 machines.

Porsche 804 did not believe that expenditures in Formula One would necessarily result in technology that could be applied to their production cars.