Jack Olsen's 14-year relationship with this 1972 Porsche 911 is very simple: it's all about trying to get a better lap time at Willow Springs. That's it.

Every year, it's tweaked and adjusted, on an extremely limited budget. And each year, Olsen tries to go faster.

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Three things are constants. There's the track, relatively unchanged in this timeframe. Its absolute limit is its absolute track record, set in 1987 by Michael Andretti in an IndyCar at 1:06.050 (although Olsen cites Nigel Mansel's marginally slower 1:06.3 lap of 1982 as the record in the video). The second is Olsen, always the driver. The third is the underlying car; while its parts are ever-changing, the chassis remains the same.

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Very little of the 911 is un-tweaked, but everything is done with an eye towards longevity and cost. The bodywork is fiberglass—cheaper than carbon fiber. Brakes are massively oversized, but Olsen justifies this investment by getting more than a decade out of rotors. Fuchs centers were welded into Corvette barrels, which Olsen claims can allow him to run a year on $800 track-suitable compounds. The engine is from a 993-era 911, stock, but relocated forward in the chassis. And he has a mere $80 into his foam-and-aluminum rear wing setup, but it's is good for 1.5 seconds. I like the way this guy operates.

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This isn't the first time we've written about Olsen's car, but this video does a masterful job of showing where Olsen's sensibilities overlap with our own—which is to say, completely. Give any R&Ter a ratty 911 and watch us follow roughly in Olsen's footsteps. His mantra also rings true: in a race car, on a track, "you can only think about one thing. You are completely lost in a simple task that you repeat" every lap. This is very true; an eloquent summary of the intoxication of the track.

For the Porsche, give Olsen credit. For the philosophy, give him extra credit.

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