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Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
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75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
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The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
