An all-carbon fiber Porsche 935 will compete at next month’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with veteran racer Jeff Zwart behind the wheel.
Porsche is building just 77 examples of the 935 and, in late June, Zwart enjoyed his first opportunity to test out the GT2 RS-based model at Willow Springs Raceway in California. While the 98th annual Pikes Peak hill climb was supposed to start in the last week of June, it has been pushed back uetil August 30.
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Jeff Zwart is the perfect man for the job. Not only is he a successful filmmaker, photographer, and Porsche collector, but he has competed at Pikes Peak no less than 17 different times in 12 different Porsche 911 models. Zwart made his first appearance at the hill climb event driving a Mazda rally car in the late 1980s. He was named ‘Rookie of the Year’ in his first outing and was immediately hooked.
In the ensuing years, he has driven heaps of different 911 models at the event. In 2010, for example, he set a class record behind the wheel of a GT3 Cup car. In 2011, he returned with a street-legal 911 GT2 RS press car and set a production car record for the time.
“When the 935 debuted at Rennsport Reunion in 2018, naturally I thought it would be a great Pikes Peak car because it’s twin-turbocharged and basically a GT2 RS road car underneath, so it has all that road-going driveability, which is important for Pikes Peak, yet it’s got the whole motorsport chassis built around it,” Zwart commented.
