TUFFI COOKIE

Tuffi Cookie

A racer transformed for the road.

In the right hands, cars can transform: What started its life as one of the very first Porsche 964 Cup racers exists today entirely transformed. With wide arches and a 3.8 RSR engine, it’s an unimaginable transformation, but for Felix Joergens, it’s perfect. He sees himself as the latest in a long line of lucky caretakers after “Tuffi”’s extensive history racing across Europe up until the late 1990s. After winning the Carrera Cup at the hands of the legendary Olaf Manthey in 1991, the lightweight chassis had already made a name for itself. Needless to say Manthey Racing still carries forward their successes from those early years.

After those first and successful races the car went on to race in 1992 as a Carrera 2 N-GT car at the fearsome Nurburgring 24H, switching hands once more to the ownership of Edgar Dören, nicknamed ‘Mr. Porsche’. It was this experienced racer who transformed the cup car to the ‘Group H’ 3.8 RSR guise that it exists in today.

"The car took home victories at the Nurburgring and famously at the 24H of Spa"

By the mid 2000s, the Cup-turned-RSR returned to its former home in Germany for a full restoration. Current caretaker Felix Joergens tells me that other than a few of the original scars on the bodywork, retained for sentimental reasons, the car was disassembled and rebuilt. Today the car is driven on the roads after being registered, but naturally it still has its original “Wagenpass”, the document of its 47 official races and its incredible history.