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The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The 65th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring fuelled by ‘Fresh from Florida’ takes the green flag at 10:40...
Following their second- and sixth-place finishes at Daytona a few weeks back, the Porsche GTLM squad were understandably upbeat about...
The 12 Hours of Sebring, the toughest and oldest sports car race in the USA, will be held for the...
Regarding 1950s Porsche Spyders, the sheer number of podium finishes reveal a tale of one the greatest sports cars ever...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
When the idea came up of producing a series of race cars for the mainly-amateur racers who drove such GT...
Background In the early 1970s, a new European Grand Touring Championship gave the competition 911s a fresh lease of life....
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Ed note: The history of specific chassis used in notable races decades ago can be hard to verify but are...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
In a garage full of legendary vehicles, one in particular stands out: the Porsche 935. The Porsche 935 was the...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
On the 2010 Le Mans starting grid before the race was the (foreground) #76 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3...
The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the racing version of the 911 GT3. In 2016, almost 320 of the near-standard...
The 2017 Daytona 24 hours has an interesting field and mix of cars, especially in the GT class. Although I...
Held on the weekend of 3-4 June 2017, the test day for this year’s Le Mans was run under clear...
The Porsche LMP1 team scored the perfect result in Mexico at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with a 1-2 finish for...
At the ten-hour Petit Le Mans race contested on the tradition-steeped Road Atlanta racetrack last Saturday, the new 911 RSR...
What a wave of jubilation must have swept through the pit garage of the #92 Porsche RSR of Michael Christensen...
It was a long time in coming, or so it seemed, but when the 2017 Porsche 911 RSR was unveiled...
The Total 24 Hours of Spa, a round of the Blancpain GT Series, gets underway this weekend on the famous...
The first race of the season, the 2018 6 Hours of Spa, is almost upon us. Thursday saw Free Practice 1...
The Bathurst 12 Hour race serves as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. First held in 1991, the...
Dirk Werner, Matt Campbell and Dennis Olsen clinched victory in the opening round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at...
On 23 November 2019, the sound of approximately 15,000 bhp will break the long silence that has persisted over the...
IMSA of course has several Marquee events, including the Daytona 24-hour, Sebring 12-hour, Watkins Glen 6-hour, and the Petit Le...
The Roar at Daytona was completed on Sunday 6 January. This has become a standard three-day test put on by...
I first came to this race in 1971, so this would be my 50th year at the Daytona 24 hours....
HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) held its now annual 24- hour historic event at Daytona on November 5-6. The 24-hour is...
Located just half a mile from the sandy beaches of Monterey Bay, CA, the Porsche Monterey Classic on Monday night...
Porsche Off the Pace Words: Kevin Ehrlich. Photos: Martin Raffauf, Porsche...
Photos by Chuck Andersen In a fiercely competitive and action-packed manner, the eighth installment of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR)...
At the start of this month, Historic Sportscar Racing hosted one of the most anticipated races of their season: The...
Held at the Sebring International Raceway, this year’s HSR Spring Fling brought together racing enthusiasts, competitors, and spectators to celebrate...
On March 15, the all-Porsche championship’s weekend featured its second 40-minute race, showcasing 43 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars...
Words and Images by Kevin Ehrlich and Martin Raffauf An endurance race around the clock can pivot on the events...
The Porsche Penske Motorsport works team’s Daytona-winning Porsche 963 has finished the 12 Hours of Sebring on the podium. After...
The 15th Targa California rally recently concluded with most drivers logging 1,000+ miles over the roads “less traveled” of California’s...
Five thousand fans and dozens of historic, priceless and deeply cool cars come together in Zell am See for the...
Porsche Junior Theo Oeverhaus has won the 2025 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup opening round in Imola. After an action-packed race...
Photography by Chuck Andersen. The 34th annual Brian Redman Targa 66 returned to its home base at Homestead-Miami Speedway, bringing...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) revealed just yesterday, Tuesday 9 March 2021, the 62-strong entry list for this year’s Le...
Race day dawned with a blanket of morning mist covering the area. It was a crisp morning as I departed...
It must rank as one of the most awesome races in the world. This year was my first visit to...
On the world stage, GT racing has enjoyed as many ups as it has had downs over the years, but...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Our second trip to Spa in the 2018/2019 Super Season takes place at a time when the teams, across all...
It is a story of extreme heights, both literally and figuratively. The Porsche Museum is dedicating a special exhibition to...
Visitors to the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed enjoyed another stellar celebration of motoring and motorsport, with a variety of...
I have always wondered, what the Goodwood FOS (Festival of Speed) was all about. Was it a race, a hill-climb,...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
I have been an avid follower of the Mille Miglia for over a decade, with a bucket list dream to...
Project 1 may be a new team on the block in WEC, but this year, the team celebrates its 25th...
Survivor Some cars are simply machines. Others carry stories in every scratch, every faded number on their doors, and every...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record....
With Stuttgart neighbor Mercedes on the rampage, Porsche had trouble on the track in the late 1990s GT1 era. But...
As early as their drive home from Le Mans in 1997 Porsche racing chief Norbert Singer and racing engineer Herbert...
Boasting the largest starting grid of the weekend with 201 qualifiers, the ADAC 24h-Classic race was always going to be...
I have worked at many race tracks in the UK and Europe over the years, but the Nürburgring has always...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down...
Over the last week-end of September/first of October the competitors in the Carrera Cup France and GT3 Cup Benelux (35...
Born: 19 November 1981 Where: Duisburg, Germany Lives: Tokyo, Japan Height: 1.84m Although it is his first year as a...
Born: 6 January 1976 Where: Passau, Germany As a team boss, Andreas Seidl is responsible for the technical running of...
Improving a Car That’s Already Excellent The Porsche 911 RSR is a car that has won more than 20 FIA World...
What better way to introduce a new race car model, than to do so as the 2018/2019 Super Season World...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
A-zug, Austro Daimler, B-zug, C-zug, Ferdinand Porsche, M17-80hp, Rabe, Zugwagen M12 In July 1906, 30-year-old Ferdinand Porsche, who had previously...
There is a collection of cars that every racing and car enthusiast should see. It is at the Autobau, located...
After racing at Spa, Zandvoort, Dijon, Magny Cours and Barcelona, the Porsche teams and drivers went to the south of...
The curtain came down on the 2017 WEC after the Bahrain 6 Hour race this last weekend, and although the...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Project 1 burst onto the World Endurance Championship (WEC) scene at the start of the 2018 Super Season. We covered...
Two of the world’s greatest endurance races for GT vehicles within eight days on back-to-back weekends show how Porsche Motorsport...
Development of the 1979 Kremer-Porsche K3 Kremer Racing, headed up by the two brothers Erwin and Manfred, from Cologne, Germany,...
If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be...
For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a...
The 27th publishing of this superb edition of Porsche Sport 2019 by Gruppe C Verlag, opens with this paragraph, “The year...
Porsche is taking its GT4 customer racing program upmarket with the all-new 911 GT4 R, marking the first time the...
