Joest, Kremer, Richard Lloyd, John Fitzpatrick… where would Group C have been without the great Porsche customer teams who were let off the leash to race, and sometimes beat, the factory 956s and 962s? Among the colourful throng, Swiss-based Brun Motorsport quickly established itself among the best in those heady days – and in 1986 even upstaged the works Rothmans cars, Joest and Jaguar to snatch a teams’ World Sportscar Championship crown.
Founder Walter Brun has rarely been interviewed, especially for English publications, but now, age 80, he granted Motor Sport an audience to tell us how it all began for him first as a racing driver and then also as an entrant, why Stefan Bellof preferred racing for his team than the factory and how his short, ill-fated dalliance…
