It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the passing of one of Porsche’s stalwarts, Rolf Sprenger,...
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In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
I have been looking forward to seeing this new book from Dalton Watson, covering the very colourful life and times...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Whether you love it or hate it, the 914 served as a very important family member in the Porsche model...
Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It covers the seven generations of...
At Porsche Road & Race, we receive many books for review, and these include books on all manner of high...
The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the earliest models to...
A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race and since the 1970s ‘Carrera’ has been a model name...
JLP-4 was the final race car in the line of Porsche 935 specials built for the John Paul father and...
Clearly it isn’t a Porsche, but it must rank as one of the best looking sports cars of its era....
Consider what it would be like to be given the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes, into Porsche’s inner design...
An Original Owner Car The Porsche 911 Carrera 4S coupe is a much-loved car by so many folks, and if...
Most motorsport enthusiasts will have attended historic races, events such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed or Revival, or similar...
An Automotive Icon One of the most iconic Porsches of all time is the 356A Cabriolet and now you have...
The phone rang, it was my old friend Carlos de Quesada. “I’ve just bought a 935 to restore,” he told...
Don’t Wait for the New GT3 Just a little bit ago, I published a story about the new GT3 from...
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news of André’s passing this last weekend. André was an...
This is Stéphane Coradi’s third publication, and the third of his books that I am reviewing. It must be said...
There is a model in Porsche’s family line-up that receives little coverage and, as a result, it does not enjoy...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The Car You Need Say hello to your next Porsche. This 1991 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 is a gorgeous example....
A Beautiful Piece of Porsche History The 1960 Porsche 356B Roadster is an automotive icon. The vehicle is one of...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Porsche 935 Tribute For Sale The 2019 Porsche 935 was a car that paid homage to a legendary car, the...
Want to Join the Outlaw Gang? Rod Emory makes some of the most insane modified Porsches out there. This Porsche...
Over the years, there has been a lot written on the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race...
A Beautiful Example With a Red Interior The Porsche 356B Coupe is a car that stands out in many people’s...
For some Porsche enthusiasts, the road to ownership follows a course which perhaps starts as an interest back as a...
I first caught sight of the Ferrari 333 SP at Kyalami in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 1998. It was...
The GT2 has been Porsche’s top performing roadgoing turbo model since ‘95, but the addition of the ‘RS’ lifts this...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covers the 1970s in his well-known and valuable decade-by-decade history of the Le...
It was with great sadness that the motoring and motorsport world learned last week of the passing of Hans Mezger,...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Simply titled, SportErfolge (English: Success in Sport), this book came my way quite by surprise. It is not a book...
Former Porsche works driver, Gérard Larrousse, celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday 23 May 2020. Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse...
On the world stage, GT racing has enjoyed as many ups as it has had downs over the years, but...
The introduction of the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, to give it its full name, marked the beginning of an unprecedented...
A True Porsche Specimen The Porsche 356A Speedster is a beautiful car and an important part of Porsche’s long motoring...
Most motorsport enthusiasts are agreed on the fact that the 1960s was one of the most innovative and exciting decades...
Motor racing in America in the late 1950s was beginning to show a much more organised front across the nation....
America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest market, and this was important for the young and growing company. In some...
Autoblog today published an in depth article investigating the new aerodynamic features of the upcoming 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S. Not...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Porsche, along with world famous auction house R. M. Sotheby’s, are auctioning off the last ever produced Type 991 911...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
For two years in the early 1960s, South African André Loubser had the time of his life, working not just...
When the second edition of this fine publication was released back in April 2019 in German, I enquired immediately as...
It was Max Hoffman, the New York-based Porsche importer, who was instrumental in getting the factory to produce a lightweight...
Berlin Motor Books, a boutique book publisher located not far from the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) in Berlin, has been...
As I’ve explained on the few occasions I’ve burst into print in Porsche Road & Race, my enduring love affair...
The 27th publishing of this superb edition of Porsche Sport 2019 by Gruppe C Verlag, opens with this paragraph, “The year...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covering the Le Mans 24 Hours decade-by-decade, concerns the 1960s. Many will agree...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
It must rank as one of the most awesome races in the world. This year was my first visit to...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
It’s a case of, more of the same for the 2018-2019 Edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook. Once again,...
For many years now, the name ‘Carrera’ has been associated with Porsche sports cars. But the story of how the...
For many years, Excellence Was Expected, the book on Porsche’s models, motorsport, company history and much more, has been regarded...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
In 1963 Enzo Ferrari made a decision that had far-reaching consequences, when he snubbed an attempt by Ford to buy...
Brian Long’s original book on the Porsche 356 was published in 1996, and this was later printed in softback form....
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Porsche 917 – Zuffenhausen’s Le Mans and Can-Am Champion, is the third title we have reviewed in the Ludvigsen Library...
One of the Best ‘Outlaws’ on the Planet Emory Motorsports is a company that makes the best Porsche “Outlaw” cars....
I met the author, Serge Vanbockryck, a good number of years back at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and since...
The age of motorsport, when an aspiring photographer could amble around the paddock snapping world championship drivers, team personnel and...
It is a fact that most of us with an interest in roadgoing or race cars, will have a favourite...
The name, Randy Leffingwell, will be familiar to most Porsche enthusiasts. Leffingwell worked in Kansas City, Chicago and for the...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
On 4 November 1961, the Kyalami International Grand Prix Circuit opened its doors for the first event to be held...
Ferdinand Karl Piëch was born in Vienna, Austria, on 17 April 1937, to Louise (daughter to Ferdinand and sister of...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Yes, I know, this is not a book about Porsches, but it does cover one of the 962’s greatest rivals...
There seem to be a number of books entering the market right now on Porsche’s motor racing history. This is...
Porsche Carrera GT The Porsche Carrera GT has become one of the most iconic and sought after Porsche models in...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
PORSCHE ROAD & RACE is proud to announce that contributor Richard Wiley was recently honoured by the South African Guild...
In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Simply titled, IMSA 1969-1989, this recently published book gives the inside story of how John Bishop built one of the...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Mention the words ‘Targa Florio’ and any motorsport enthusiast’s thoughts will drift off to those tortuous roads, tight bends, sheer...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
