Porsche 787

The Porsche 787 was a Formula One racing car that Porsche built and raced for a single season, 1961. When the FIA limited Formula One engines to 1.5 litres for 1961, the same as Formula Two, Porsche could use its Formula Two cars almost unchanged. The 787 was the first Formula One car Porsche designed as such, with the involvement of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and its chassis was 100 mm longer than the 718/2 to take the flat-eight Type 753 engine then in development. That engine did not arrive, so the car kept the air-cooled four-cylinder Type 547 boxer with Kugelfischer fuel injection, and a new front suspension replaced the trailing arms. It retired at Monaco, finished tenth and eleventh in the Dutch Grand Prix, and was found short of power and handling. Only two were built, and both were scrapped in 1964.