Porsche 956 the legendary race car that became Gobot Crasher

I specifically selected this song (under the Fair Use Doctrine) for this clip of the Porsche 956 I'm using (also under the Fair Use Doctrine) when doing this video because the words fit the story of this car and also because I think that if the gobot Crasher were real, she would absolutely have liked this song.

Plus, it just has a darn good beat.

I am using this video and song under the terms of Fair Use for education/commentary. This essay, video and song are my homages paid to a brilliant race car that changed history as well as my homage to gobot Crasher, my most favorite gobot EVER. And a little bit to Stefan Bellof, too. My condolences to his family and friends.

This clip is from a video Gooding&Company put on youtube in 2015. The song added was my own idea. The essay is also my creation, paraphrased.

Europe's 1986 song The Final Countdown asks,

"I guess there is no one to blame......We're leaving ground!
Will things ever be the same again? It's the final countdown!"

For the car racing world, and for Machine Robo and Gobots fans, the answer was no. History - and things - would never be the same again.

The FIA, or Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile was, and is, the governing body for world motor sport and the federation of the world’s leading motoring organizations. It is a French association with its headquarters in Paris, France, that was founded in 1904. It brings together hundreds of different race car organizations from over a hundred different countries around the world. The story of Porsche 956 began with them.

The FIA introduced a group C category for racing cars in the early 1980's so, to be in keeping with this new class, Porsche (named after Ferdinand Porsche, the Austrian who founded the company in 1931) designed the Porsche 956. Norbert Singer was the project manager in charge and he wanted to win the Le Mans race in 1982. (Le Mans is an annual race held near the town of Le Mans, France.) So Singer lead the charge in developing this new car.

The Porsche 956 forever changed the shape of race cars. For one thing, any cars built before the 956 had their weight attached to the chassis (chassis is the basic framework of a car) instead of having it integrate and blend in with the design of the chassis. With the Porsche 956, any weight was built right into the framework, allowing the car to be more streamlined and go much faster.

Also enabling much faster speeds was the fact that the car was made from aluminum, for minimum weight, and it also had a different rear wing design as well. The car was fitted with a much lower and smaller ‘low drag’ wing to enable speeds over 360 km/h.

The car was designed to also enable it to use fuel more effectively, and it also has something called the ground effect. This means that the way the car's underside was built, the car was in effect "sucked down" towards the race track. This allowed it to swerve and turn corners much better.

The new designs worked. Porsche 956 won the Le Mans from 1982, the year of its first win, to 1985. Porsche 956 was also the winning car for four consecutive years (1982-1985) in the World Endurance Championship.

The Porsche 956 dominated the 1980's. And not just the 1980's. Stefan Bellof, (may he RIP) the German race car driver, set a record in 1983 using the Porsche 956 that was not beaten until June 2018. He set a lap record of 6 minutes, 11 seconds, and 13 miliseconds at the Nurburgring race track located in Germany. (Bellof unfortunately died while car racing in 1985. His car crashed.) This record was beaten by another Porsche model. I guess only Porsche can beat Porsche. ;)

I think the Porsche 956 is amazing. I really do. Changing the course of history in a good way is a great achievement.

If there is any such thing as reincarnation, then I want to come back as a Porsche 956.

I think my audience who read this can tell I love this car. And the gobot Crasher. Haha.

Given all this about this wonderful, amazing, pretty car, it was not surprising that this car was chosen by Popy, a division of Bandai, the Japanese toy company, to become its Porsche Robo, in its line of Machine Robo figures, its MR-20, released in 1982. (They were at first simply miniature robots that could become vehicles, not half organic living beings or anything, as Gobots were later on.) The miniature figure that became Crasher at first was white and matched the Porsche 956 here in this video even down to its little light blue Rothmans stickers. It had no sex/gender, but later became the lady gobot Crasher. The white figure to this day is still called Crasher, white Crasher. Crasher's figure was later changed to black and orange/red, to match her tv series appearance (it was thought that it would make her seem more ominous) She remained a Porsche 956 however. In the beginning though, she was an "it", the miniature white version of this video Porsche 956 here. This is how Crasher began her life.

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