It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
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The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
