Porsche 804

The Porsche 804 is a single-seat, open-wheeled Formula One racing car that Porsche built for the 1½ litre formula and raced for a single season, 1962. Ferdinand Alexander "Butzi" Porsche designed it, with chassis design led by Helmuth Bott, as the successor to the four-cylinder 787, which Ferry Porsche retired after poor results in 1961. The 804 had a tubular steel frame and an aluminium body, with a fibreglass nose and cockpit surround added later in the season, and it was the first Porsche to come standard with disc brakes. It carried the new flat-eight engine with a horizontal cooling fan and weighed about 455 kg. Four cars were built. It gave Porsche its only Formula One wins as a constructor, at the 1962 French Grand Prix and the non-championship Solituderennen, both driven by Dan Gurney.