Porsche Laptime - Otto Mathé

Zell am See, Professor Ferdinand Porsche Memorial Race, February 12, 1956. Ice racing is always good for a thrill. But today’s contest on frozen Lake Zell will give the three thousand motorsport fans in attendance something to talk about for years. Otto Mathé from Austria’s Ziller Valley covers the four-kilometer circuit in just 157 seconds and wins the race with a record-setting average speed of 93 kmh. He manages this feat in a “Porsche Special” of his own design—an open-wheel race car made of Porsche components that looks like a crumpled piece of silver paper. The fans call it “Fetzenflieger,” which means something like “shreds on wings.”

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