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Some men have crazy dreams and seek out a way to follow them. But how do you start an adventure or a quest; how do you gather compatriots around you? You do that with a call to arms. That’s what happened at Speedsport Tuning when Todd Pajonas walked into the...
Porsche will unveil the new 911 RSR racing car at the Los Angeles Auto Show (November 18-27). The eagerly awaited and much speculated about 2017 racer will put to rest all the theories circulating on the new RSR. Absolute secrecy has prevailed as to the car’s layout and engine, but...
Regarding 1950s Porsche Spyders, the sheer number of podium finishes reveal a tale of one the greatest sports cars ever built. Considered by many to be the most beautiful of all the Spyder variants, the Type 718 RSK won its class at the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 24 Hours...
Porsche Penske Motorsport is determined to continue its impressive streak in the 2024 season. After clinching wins at the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in Daytona and at the first race of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship WEC in Qatar, the works team now heads to...
The ‟Grello” of the Porsche customer team Manthey EMA crossed the finish line first at the Nürburgring 24 Hours but was ultimately classified second: A 100-second penalty relegated the 911 GT3 R of Ayhancan Güven and factory drivers Thomas Preining and Kévin Estre to second place. Third place went to...
Le Mans: The Official History Of The World’s Greatest Motor Race 1980–89 This edition, spanning 1980-1989, covers one of the most exciting post war periods in motorsport. The 1960s and 1970s were of course both decades that were every bit as exciting, but the 1980s perhaps represents the final decade...
After the music had died down, and the last of the revellers had left the party that had just a few hours earlier welcomed in a new decade, little thought was given to life much beyond the next day or perhaps the next week, at best. And yet here we...
More podiums for Porsche on the West coast swing Porsche Newsroom: Porsche Penske Motorsport has achieved another podium result in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. At the wheel of the No. 6 Porsche 963, Nick Tandy from the UK and Frenchman Mathieu Jaminet secured second place at round four in...
The two Porsche 963 cars fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport factory team concluded the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season finale in Bahrain in positions 13 and 14. With this result, Porsche wraps up its 2025 campaign third in the manufacturers’ standings. However, there was plenty of reason to...
Under unseasonably hot conditions for late September, the 88th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is finally a reality. Postponed from its traditional mid-June date, the world famous endurance race fell victim to the global Corona virus pandemic, but at least we have a date for the race, and...
The 1979 Sports Car season at Dick Barbour Racing would once again start with probably the toughest race, the Daytona 24 hours. In late 1978 we had just sent the Team’s Porsche 934 1/2 down to Mexico City for the Trans Am race in November of 1978. Janet Guthrie had...
At the halfway point in the 2018/2019 WEC Super Season, Porsche leads the field in the GT Manufacturers title by a healthy margin. This position was undoubtedly helped by the huge points haul following the momentous 1-2 result in the Le Mans 24 Hour race back in June. But the...
Porsche 996 GT3-R – Loud, Flat Out and On Track The car at Spa drove in the “Global endurance Legends” series, which were “slow” demo/show laps. The white car at Zandvoort ran in the “Aston Martin Master Endurance Legends” series, which is a racing series for old Le Mans cars...
The life of Jonkheer Gijsbert “Gijs” van Lennep is by no means short of special moments. In 1971, he won the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 917, repeating the feat in 1976 in the Porsche 936. He drove in Formula 1 and won the sports car...
A field of 27 Porsche GT3 Cup cars line up prior to the start of the season finale in Austin, Texas The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup has a new champion. The 24-year-old German, Sven Müller, secured the title of the international Porsche makes cup at the season finale in Austin,...
Romain Dumas, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 14th December 1977 Where: Alès, France Lives: Basel, Switzerland Marital Status: Partner Elysia, one son (Gabin) Height/Weight: 1.74 m/62 kg Hobbies: Rallying, jet-ski, jogging, squash A full season in the FIA World Endurance Championship as a Porsche works driver, including...
Photography by Matty White Media. Comtoyou Racing made history by winning the 2024 CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa for Aston Martin, ending a 76-year wait for the brand’s victory at the event. The race was highly competitive, featuring dramatic moments, particularly in the final hour. The Belgian squad’s triumph was...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today, Christophorus and 9:11 Magazine brings the former Targa Florio class champion, whose nickname is Sascha, back home. Following a vigorous turn of the crank, the gas pedal is applied ever...
A high-profile guest driver will tackle the third round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup: The ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock is returning to take on the seasoned specialists at the Red Bull Ring. From 28 to 30 June 2024, Glock will contest the international one-make cup at the wheel...
You just picked up a nice sports car—like a Porsche 718 or Porsche 911—to bomb around town in. Your gearhead friends egg you on to take it for some laps around the local circuit in order to experience what your new ride is truly capable of. The prospect of doing...
On March 15, the all-Porsche championship’s weekend featured its second 40-minute race, showcasing 43 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars competing for dominance on Sebring International Raceway’s 3.74-mile track. The initial two rounds highlighted victories by first-time race winners in the top Pro class, as well as seasoned champions reclaiming...
Porsche 962C In-Car Video Filmed between 2010-2016 at Circuit Zolder, Spa-Francorchamps, Zandvoort, Le Mans and Goodwood....
Daytona 24 Hours, 31 January/1 February 1981: Bob Garretson, Bobby Rahal and Brian Redman driving the #9 Porsche 935 (chassis #009 00030) would go on to win the race by 13 laps, having started from 16th on the grid The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in...
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Porsche 911 Carrera RSR (1974) by Historika – Monza Historic 2020 + OnBoard, 3-Litre Flat-Six Sound! This great and original 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR, chassis 0060015, took to the track in the 2020 edition of the Monza Historic by Peter Auto. Prepared by Historika Klassik Porsche, competes with Andrew...
Porsche 962c Group C at Spa and Zandvoort Filmed between 2010-2016 at Circuit Zolder, Spa-Francorchamps, Zandvoort, Le Mans and Goodwood....
The more things change, the more they stay the same…someone famous once said. Perhaps the same can be said for the 2019 starting grid for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will kick off tomorrow, Saturday 15 June, at 15h00. With the titles decided in the LMP1 and GTE...
The Martini team run by Hans-Dieter Dechent had three cars, two to race, and one T-car. The #3 was driven by the two Austrians, Helmut Marko and Rudi Lins Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point in time....
Awesome In car action! Jochen Mass – Spa 1000kms – Porsche 962 1st September 1985, Spa Francorchamps, Belgium – Thunder down the start-finish straight and through the famous dip at Eau Rouge with our in-car camera in the cockpit of top German driver Jochen Mass in the No.1 works Porsche...
Depending on your view, the Gods of the Green Hell either restored Porsche to its rightful place on the top step of the podium or robbed the Mercedes AMG from a sure win in the 2018 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Looking back… Dramatic weather arrived starting around 2:30am after 11 hours...
#56, Team Project 1, Porsche 911 RSR, LMGTE Am, driven by: Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Lindsey, Egidio Perfetti on 11/06/2018 at the 24H of Le Mans, 2018 The career of Patrick Lindsey, one of the Project1 Porsche RSR drivers, will hit a high point on the weekend of 16/17 June 2018...
Introduction Having watched this particular car race at the age of ten, you can imagine the excitement I felt when given the chance to fully document it for its current owner. Much time was spent tracking down period photographs of its debut at the Sebring 12 hours in 1977. Then,...
The Targa 66 event, founded by Brian Redman, is a prestigious motorsport gathering that pays homage to the rich heritage of sports car racing. Named in honor of the Targa Florio, a legendary road race in Sicily, Italy, the Targa 66 club invites enthusiasts and collectors to experience the thrill...
Riley Dickinson reminded his 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup North America competitors at Sebring International Raceway just why he is a former champion in the series. The 2023 Pro title winner returned with a vengeance after a one-year hiatus and completed an opening round sweep with Kellymoss. After scoring the Race...
12 Hours of Sebring, 17 March 2018: In the paddock ahead of practice, the #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki Porsche scored just a single win in the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship about three-quarters into the season, but now the Porsche GTLM team have...
Valuable data and insights were gathered with a view to the 24-hour race in the Eifel Nürburg. Manthey EMA has made a successful start to the 2024 season on the Nordschleife, crowning an already successful first race weekend in the Eifel with victory in the second round of the Nürburgring...
It’s been a good 2 years since the Porsche Taycan (the brand’s first EV) debuted on the world stage. As time has unfolded, there’s been no denying the positive impact and commercial success that the Taycan has brought to its automaker. Sales figures for the Taycan have been excellent—in fact,...
This last weekend’s 2017 Silverstone Classic was a triumph in many ways, but probably most of all for the spectators who were treated to some spectacular racing. Of interest to our readers though will be how the Porsche cars fared over the weekend in the wide variety of race classes....
POV Drive In A Porsche 911 3.0 Carrera RSR Factory Porsche racer Patrick Long has a million-dollar historic 911 3.0 Carrera RSR from 1975 to pedal, less than half the horsepower of the fastest cars in the class, and uses every ounce of talent and racecraft he owns in a...
Patrick Pilet, Porsche driver of #92, at the Silverstone 6h, 10 – 12 April 2015 Born: 8 October 1981 Where: Auch, France Lives: Le Chesnay, France Marital status: Married Height/Weight: 1.76 m/67 kg Hobbies: Golf, cycling, fitness, cinema He is a man for all occasions. Regardless of the championship, Patrick...
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There will be four Porsche 911 GT3 R on the starting line of the world’s toughest street race, the FIA GT World Cup in Macau (China) from 15 to 18 November. The Manthey-Racing team will be fielding two of the vehicles to be driven by Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor....
Since its launch, the Porsche 911 has played a key role in motorsport, especially in endurance racing. Two years after its debut, the 911 S won the 2-litre GT class at Le Mans. By the mid-1970s, Porsche introduced the RSR—a race-focused 911 that became the foundation for decades of success...
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Three decades and counting Over the past 30 years, SpeedSport Tuning has transformed from a small Porsche “neighborhood garage” to a highly respected company serving street, competition, and vintage enthusiasts. With current gross sales exceeding $7M annually, their attention to detail and customer service continues to be a recipe for...
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Porsche 997 GT3 Rally Cars Sounding Spectacular...
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Michelin is now the track sponsor. Their brand-new tower which has just opened, is 100 miles up the road from their US headquarters in South Carolina IMSA of course has several Marquee events, including the Daytona 24-hour, Sebring 12-hour, Watkins Glen 6-hour, and the Petit Le Mans. The Petit Le...
From the 1950s onward No stranger to the Monterey Peninsula, Porsches have always been one of the most successful marques to be celebrated during car week in Monterey. Long before “Car Week” existed, the inaugural race weekend at Laguna Seca Raceway in 1957 revealed a front row of two Porsche...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit “Come Together” somewhere in the back of my head. I have often used the metaphor of how some of the most interesting motor racing tales are based on an almost...
Porsche’s highs and lows at the Sebring 12 Hours The Porsche 963 narrowly missed out on securing its first triumph in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship due to an accident. In the bid for overall victory, Mathieu Jaminet in the No. 6 car and Felipe Nasr in the No. 7...
On Board Hot off the heels of the unveiling of the new Porsche 911 RSR, we’re looking back with the classic 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR charging up a wet hill at Festival of Speed...
Kyalami 9 Hour, 21-23 November 2019: #09 Team Perfect Circle Porsche 911 GT3 R On 23 November 2019, the sound of approximately 15,000 bhp will break the long silence that has persisted over the famous Midrand circuit as twenty-eight top GT3 race cars tear down the start/finish straight in the...
Autograph card signed by Jürgen Barth (ca. 1980) More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome is hardly headline news until you realise that the author, exceptionally, is a Porsche insider, but not just any insider. Jürgen Barth...
The Porsche Penske Motorsport works team and the winner of 53 Formula 1 Grands Prix, Sebastian Vettel, are looking forward to putting the Porsche 963 through its paces. This coming week, the German will take the wheel of the hypercar at the Motorland Aragón. Porsche Penske Motorsport forges ahead with...
Following a successful return to Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Snetterton a fortnight ago, John McCullagh returned to the Redline Racing line-up for Rounds 10 and 11 of the thrilling championship at Knockhill. Porsche Carrera Cup Round 10: Knockhill The weekend began with a Porsche exclusive test session on Tuesday...
2023 Porsche 963 Technical Specifications Team Porsche Penske Motorsport is sending the new Porsche 963 LMDh prototype into battle for total victories: Two 963 hybrid prototypes each will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship from 2023. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get...
Official Daytona ’85 poster By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear to most that the Porsche 935 was reaching the end of its useful racing life. While it had been a great car, it just could not...
(2016-2018) Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991.1) Technical Specifications Powering the new 911 GT3 R is a cutting-edge four-litre flat-six unit which is largely identical to the high-performance production engine of the road-legal 911 GT3 RS. Direct petrol injection, which operates at pressures up to 200 bar, as well as variable...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP 2000 was originally designed to take victory at the Le Mans 24. However, midway through the development, the company decided, for budgetary reasons, to discontinue the project after the car...
Round 2 Held for a second year at historic Weathertech Raceway, Laguna Seca, the 2022 Velocity Invitational is poised to offer the finest combination of vintage racing and luxury lifestyle in North America. Last year’s event included a world-class display of Porsche 917s, many of which went out on track...
IMSA R3 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Long Beach, 13 April 2019: The #911 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy leads the #912 of teammates Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor away from the start The week’s preparations started well for the factory Porsche team, as the...
Words by Glen Smale / Images by Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG The motorsport world woke up on Monday this week to learn of the passing of one of the sport’s greatest drivers. Vic Elford, or ‘Quick Vic’ as he was affectionately known, passed away on Sunday 13...
The Cup car, styled in a spectacular manner, stands as the first racing car based on the current 992 generation road car and marks the first one-make cup racer from the German sports car manufacturer to showcase a broad turbo-spec body. The updated 992-generation 911 GT3 Cup boasts numerous enhancements...
Round 1 of the 9th season of the WEC was contested at the legendary Spa circuit on 1 May 2021. The result of this race in the GTE Pro class went in Porsche’s favour with the #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Kévin Estre/Neel Jani taking a commanding win. The #91...
There has been much chatter on the Internet and on various social media platforms recently as to what would happen to the WEC in 2018. Well, to some extent, the wait is over as the FIA/ACO issued a press release last Friday at the Mexican round of the championship in...
Background In the early 1970s, a new European Grand Touring Championship gave the competition 911s a fresh lease of life. This model almost completely filled race grids. By the Autumn of 1972, Porsche launched its new 911 ‘Carrera’ with engine capacity raised from 2.4 to 2.7-litres, and a batch of...
The 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 26th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 21 and 22 June 1958. It was also the fifth round of the 1958 World Sports Car Championship. Ferrari had 10 cars start the race with only two finishing but one, a...
Porsche Junior driver, Julien Andlauer, has made his mark in the Porsche Carrera Cup France series where he drives the #555 Martinet By Alméras. © Alexis Goure (2017) Writer Lucian Sonea sat down at the Le Mans Test day for an interview with Porsche Junior Julien Andlauer. The response from...
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Awesome In car action! Jochen Mass – Spa 1000kms – Porsche 962 Some maniac decided it was a good idea to take a Group C Porsche 962 and use it on the roads. ...
(From L-R) 1995 Porsche WSC-95 in which Tom Kristensen registered his first Le Mans win (1997) and the first Porsche to win Le Mans outright, the #23 Porsche 917K driven by Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood at the 1970 race Regular Goodwood attendees would have been starved of all the...
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Porsche 911 RSR – Porsche GT Works Team #91: Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz; Porsche GT Works Team #92: Kévin Estre, Michael Christensen This weekend sees the first double-header at Sebring with the running of both round 6 of the World Endurance Championship WEC, as well as round 2 of the...
Porsche juniors Alessandro Ghiretti and Theo Oeverhaus are looking forward to an entertaining season: In 2025, the two young drivers sponsored by Porsche Motorsport will compete in both the international Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the eight race weekends of the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland. A total of 24...
One of the most colorful episodes in the history of Porsche was their 13th Le Mans victory in 1994 with the racing version of a road car derived from a racing car. This hubris served the car company well and less so a participant. This was the car that Porsche...
Rolex 24 at Daytona, 26-27 January 2019: The #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki leads the GTLM class off at the start of the race The 2019 season opener at Daytona will certainly go down in history as memorable, but perhaps not for the...
Reportage sur les 24 heures du Mans 1963. Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rover, Lotus...
The terms Porsche and racing have now become virtually synonymous. In no small part, this is due to the German manufacturer’s stunning 19 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans—more than any other manufacturer. However, the keen enthusiast will know that it took Porsche almost 20 years to...
Manthey EMA finished the first race of the 2025 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) in third place. DTM teammates Thomas Preining (Austria) and Ayhancan Güven (Turkey) drove the Grello Porsche with starting number 911 at the 70th ADAC Westfalenfahrt and secured their first podium finish in the first race of the season,...
Activities have concluded for Porsche at the 2018 WEC Prologue, and by all accounts, it went very smoothly. Run over two days in the south of France at the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track (Paul Ricard HTTT), this event gave the teams an ideal opportunity to test their cars...
Nürburgring, 12 May 2018: The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo (left) just prior to the 24-hour race. Timo Bernhard was on hand to perform several demonstration laps for the eager crowds along with the Museum’s Porsche 956/83-005 (right) which was driven by Hans Stuck In July 2017, Porsche shocked the motorsport...
Porsche Sport 2017 – Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be without. In fact, if you read this book from cover-to-cover, you would be one of the most knowledgeable people around concerning the...
As the weekend of the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours approaches, 13-14 June, we take a look back at some of the events that took place during the race week in 2019. Had things been running normally in 2020, we would have been on the ground at Le Mans...
Daytona paddock – 24 January 2018 Continuing with our Daytona diary, Martin has sent us the following selection of images from the Rolex 24. So catch up with the action… Wednesday’s on track activity was limited to practice for the Ferrari challenge and the IMSA Continental Challenge. The Weathertech cars...
Porsche’s EV Hypercar to center stage The exciting Mission X concept study will visit the U.S. for the first time this fall, celebrating its U.S. debut at Rennsport Reunion 7 at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California from September 28 to October 1. “Rennsport is the perfect location to...
Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, a rather striking paint scheme! Despite crewing for one of the teams at this year’s Rolex 24, our man on the ground, Martin, had some time to wander around the Daytona paddock. He sent back some impromptu shots of the goings on before work...
Manthey EMA will field a Grello Porsche in the 2024 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. Porsche drivers Kévin Estre (France), Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium), Thomas Preining (Austria) and Ayhancan Güven (Turkey) will pilot the car with starting number 911. After two retirements in the last two years, Manthey is aiming for...
Richard Lietz, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 17 December 1983 Where: Waidhofen, Austria Lives: Ybbsitz, Austria Marital status: Single Height/Weight: 1.83 m/73 kg Hobbies: Rallying, jogging, climbing, cycling Richard Lietz, a man for all seasons, and for all racing series. The Austrian celebrated the greatest success of...
