page_title: Porsche Holding
section_title: Motorsport
hierarchical_section_title: Porsche Holding / Motorsport
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Porsche 908-3 mit Vic Elford beim 1000-km-Rennen auf dem Nürburgring eingangs Südkehre. Elford/Ahrens gewannen das Rennen vor Herrmann/Attwood
context_page_description: Porsche Holding is the largest car distributor in Europe. In 2011, the company was sold by the Porsche family and Porsche SE to Volkswagen AG who are majority stakeholders in the company.
context_section_description: In the late 1960s, Porsche entered many sports cars in races, and to support the factory effort (then calling itself Porsche System Engineering), external semi-factory teams were set up to share the work load. In 1969, Porsche Salzburg became such a de facto second works team, sponsored by Porsche Konstruktionen. Early in the season, at the Nürburgring, cars were entered as Salzburg Porsche Konstruktionen, but later at Austria's Österreichring, it became Porsche Salzburg for short.
  Porsche Salzburg became an entrant in the 1969 World Sportscar Championship season and 1970 World Sportscar Championship season, representing Porsche in motorsport. In 1970, the team of John Wyer was the designated factory partner. The Porsche factory itself did not compete anymore, focussing on development, but Salzburg continued. Usually two cars were entered, for Vic Elford and Hans Herrmann. Salzburg operated the winning Porsche 908/3 in the 1000km Nürburgring for that year, and the winning Porsche 917KH at the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans.  After 1970, the name of Porsche Salzburg disappeared from entry lists, as Martini Racing took over as the second factory-backed team besides Wyer.
caption: Porsche 908/03 of Vic Elford/Kurt Ahrens, Jr., winner of the 1970 1000km Nürburgring, entered by Porsche Salzburg
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