Visitors to the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed enjoyed another stellar celebration of motoring and motorsport, with a variety of Porsche models from the new 992-generation 911 to the all-electric and Taycan Turbo GT drawing large crowds across the long weekend in southeast England. Inspired by Motorsport: innovative performance hybrid...
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19Bozzy92 has come out with another glorious video, this time from Monza during the 2020 Kateyama Test Days event held there. Kateyama is an Italian racing organizer that works with multiple world-class circuits to allow for privateers and smaller teams to have adequate testing on those tracks. They arrange for...
Endurance racing legend Brian Redman is once again hosting Targa Sixty Six, a vintage race car gathering he founded in 1991 where owners can “properly exercise” their sleek machinery in a controlled atmosphere. This year’s event will be held from February 11-13 at the 10-turn Palm Beach International Raceway just...
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Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the 80th Members’ Meeting presented by Audrain Motorsport will host a spectacular on-track demonstration celebrating 75 years of Porsche. Just as Stuttcars has covered previous Porsche outings at Goodwood, we’ll be...
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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...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 23-24 June 1951: In the foreground of the workshop at Teloché is the #46 Porsche 356 SL driven by Edmond Mouche and Auguste Veuillet, while in the background is the #47 Porsche 356 SL which was damaged in practice by Rudolph Sauerwein Porsche has been represented...
In the beginning… The engine of the Porsche 911 has come a long way over the past 60 years, now with four times the power from twice the displacement. Its drive technology has continued to develop, but the fundamental concept has remained unchanged—whether naturally aspirated, as a turbo, or in...
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...
Having won the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hour race with Porsche’s LMP1 team, driver Nick Tandy returned to the Circuit de la Sarthe last year to compete in the GTE Pro category. Mobil 1 The Grid caught up with Tandy to find out more about the Le Mans challenge and...
Porsche has started into its racing year with a 1-2 qualifying lock-out followed by a double podium and moved into the lead of all three standings in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the Mexico City E-Prix. For the second consecutive race, reigning world champion Pascal Wehrlein scored...
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With the dawning of the 1982 season, the introduction of the Group C era ushered in a new breed of closed race cars that conformed to an 800kg minimum weight requirement amongst a host of other dimensional and fuel consumption regulations. In many ways, Group C which rand for more...
Movie star and racing driver Steve McQueen had an idea to make a film based on the Le Mans 24H racing. He had a personal Porsche 908 K Flunder Spyder (chassis 908-022) in which he had scored second in 1970 Sebring 12H. For the Le Mans the car was converted...
Between 1987 and 1990, Porsche forged a remarkable path in American motorsports, with one of its most memorable moments being the team’s short-lived, yet intense, stint in CART/IndyCar. Join us in the first part about the story of this adventure, as the Zuffenhausen-based company tried to establish itself in the...
California 8 Hours, Laguna Seca, 30 March 2019: The #911 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R was driven by Romain Dumas, Sven Müller and Mathieu Jaminet Dirk Werner, Matt Campbell and Dennis Olsen clinched victory in the opening round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at the twelve-hour race...
Born: 19 November 1981 Where: Duisburg, Germany Lives: Tokyo, Japan Height: 1.84m Although it is his first year as a Porsche LMP1 works driver, German-born André Lotterer needs little by way of an introduction. Lotterer, it seems, was born to race, having attended races with his father from a young...
Porsche & Le Mans Newly released “Racing with Giants” video features archival footage of Le Mans past and present, along with interviews with multiple drivers and Porsche team principals, including Allan McNish, Patrick Long, Jacky Ickx and Nick Tandy. Porsche has long competed at Le Mans, though recently solely in...
Chassis #000 00023 gets a check out on the autobahn by the Kremer brothers prior to Le Mans. Manfred Kremer drove it Erwin Kremer and Jerry Woods followed in a 928 chase car. Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the...
As early as their drive home from Le Mans in 1997 Porsche racing chief Norbert Singer and racing engineer Herbert Ampferer started scheming their plans for the 1998 season. It would be a crunch year for Porsche’s revived racing program, which was now under heavy attack from Mercedes-Benz. They were...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it is long-distance sports car racing, particularly in Porsches, where Bell forged his legacy as a champion with five overall victories at Le Mans, three victories in the 24 Hours of...
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...
Le Mans Classic, 6-8 July 2018: Grid 6 – The #67 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 (1975) driven by Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen, won the GTS class and finished a fine eighth overall in Grid 6 Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen are class winners again, winning the GTS class...
Born: 25 May 1981 Where: Hannover, Germany Lives: Würzburg, Germany Height: 1.80m Career 2017 Porsche works driver, 2nd Daytona 24 Hours (GTLM) 2016 BMW works driver IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (2 podiums), 5th Nürburgring 24 Hours (GT3), Spa 24 Hours Blancpain Endurance Championship 2015 BMW works driver, 2nd Tudor United...
Porsche has started the 2024 motorsport year with a victory: Watched by 40,000 avid spectators in the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Pascal Wehrlein won the Mexico E-Prix, the season-opening round of the ABB Formula E World Championship at the wheel of his Porsche 99X Electric. Race 1 It was a perfect...
Reportage sur les 24 heures du Mans 1963. Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rover, Lotus...
Pendine Sands, Wales, 18 May 2019: The 2015 Porsche 911 Turbo S waits on the beach to be driven by Zef Eisenberg Few people outside of the UK would have noticed that last year, a new land speed record was set on the famous Pendine Sands beach. Pendine Sands is...
1987 Porsche 962 IMSA GTP Accelerations, Flames & Single Turbo Flat-6 Sound! This video is about a 1987 Porsche 962 (chassis 962-C04) which I recorded at Monza Circuit during the Monza Historic weekend by Peter Auto, racing in the Group C Racing championship. The 962 was Porsche’s replacement for...
Porsche Sport 2018 – © Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a book you want on your bookshelf. I have sung the praises of these publications before today, and for good reason, but...
Porsche is returning to LMP1 for the first time since 1998. We took a look back at why the German manufacturer’s return is so important. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....
The #8 Kremer K3 Porsche 935 entered by Dick Barbour and driven by John Fitzpatrick, in the pit lane ahead of the 1980 Norisring race. The author, Martin Raffauf, is at the car’s right front wheel The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy...
Round 1 WEC, Silverstone 6 Hours, 14-16 April 2017: #92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre leaves the pit garage It was a long time in coming, or so it seemed, but when the 2017 Porsche 911 RSR was unveiled at the LA Auto Show on...
The Fanatec GT World Challenge America championship hit the Sebring International Raceway for rounds three and four of the 2024 season, with Florida’s scorching heat making it a sizzling weekend for racers and fans alike. The 90-minute races were a thrill-fest, packed with heart-pounding wheel-to-wheel action as both Pro and...
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...
Race to the clouds The Brumos Collection and Brumos Racing announced today that they will compete for the second straight year at the 101st running of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, brought to you by Gran Turismo, on June 25, 2023. Also known as The Race to the...
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...
1998 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (996) Technical Specifications Type Racing Car Built at Germany Engine Flat-6 Displacement 3598 cc / 219.6 in³ Bore 76.4 mm / 3.01 in Stroke 100 mm / 3.94 in Power 275.9 kw / 370.0 bhp @ 7000 rpm Specific output 102.83 bhp per litre Torque...
HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) held its now annual 24- hour historic event at Daytona on November 5-6. The 24-hour is formatted the same way as the Le mans Historics. Cars are divided into groups (7 total) and each group must complete four “1- hour” sessions. Note, groups C & D...
© White Racers from Zuffenhausen: Porsche 904, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910 In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will have a couple more to do. White Racers from Zuffenhausen, is another in this series, and as we...
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Misha Charoudin and Uwe Alzen take the Phoenix Racing Porsche Carrera S Cup for a couple of spins around the Nürburgring....
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Sublime Or Sacrilege? ‘If you want to build something, build it how you want it.’...
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Five thousand fans and dozens of historic, priceless and deeply cool cars come together in Zell am See for the fifth F.A.T. Ice Race – a modern event that’s already a generation-spanning tradition. It’s winter, it’s cold, and at the weekend that meant one thing: time for the F.A.T. Ice...
“What in the world is an American woman doing here with this car?” Jacky Ickx was incredulous. The legendary Formula One, sports car, and Dakar driver materialized in the desert bivouac next to Amy Lerner’s 1982 Porsche 911 SC. Lerner had come a long way to run her Porsche sports...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be distilled into one word; racing. Even before the days of cars that would bare his name, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche believed competition was the ultimate test for proving excellence in design...
1999 – 2001 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (996) Technical Specifications Type Racing Car Built at Germany Engine Flat-6 Displacement 3598 cc / 219.6 in³ Bore 76.4 mm / 3.01 in Stroke 100 mm / 3.94 in Power 275.9 kw / 370.0 bhp @ 7000 rpm Specific output 102.83 bhp per...
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...
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Photography by Chuck Andersen. The 34th annual Brian Redman Targa 66 returned to its home base at Homestead-Miami Speedway, bringing together vintage race car enthusiasts for a weekend of high-revving excitement and camaraderie. Held in mid-February, this non-competitive event allowed participants to push their classic and modern race cars on...
It is by now well known that Porsche won the prestigious Le Mans 24-Hour race in 2016, the company’s 18th such victory in this classic French endurance race. To put this achievement in perspective, Audi have won the title thirteen times and Ferrari nine times. Just as they did in...
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Neel Jani, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H 2016 Born: 8th December 1983 Where: Rorschach, Switzerland Lives: Port, Switzerland Height/weight: 1.72 m/62 kg Marital status: Married to Lauren Hobbies: Sports, cross-country skiing, tennis, cycling The Swiss driver with Indian roots lives up to the image of what a race car...
Sabine Schmitz at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, 20 May 2012 It is with great sadness that we bring you the news this week of the passing of not one, but two, significant names in the world of Porsche motorsport. Mosport 1000 km, 11 August 1985: (From L-R) Manfred Kremer, Manfred...
We have partnered with Sports Car Digest to bring amazing Porsche content from the SCD archives to Stuttcars. This piece was originally published on February 2, 2015 and is here for Stuttcars members to enjoy! The first efforts with the 924 rally car involved a non-turbo version, the Monte Carlo...
Mont Ventoux, 18 June 1967 – Rolf Stommelen won this hillclimb driving a Porsche 910/8 Bergspyder Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of his biography implies, he could drive anything anywhere, this was largely true. Although his...
Photography by Chuck Andersen. The 2024 HSR Sebring Classic 12 Hour, Pistons & Props, delivered a weekend of thrilling racing, dramatic finishes, and standout performances at Sebring International Raceway. Paying homage to the iconic 12 Hours of Sebring, the event featured historic cars, fierce competition, and a healthy dose of...
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...
WEC BAPCO 6 Hours of Bahrain, 18 November 2017: #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid driven by Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley The curtain came down on the 2017 WEC after the Bahrain 6 Hour race this last weekend, and although the winner of the 2017 WEC LMP1 class was...
Words by: Glen Smale Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Interserie championship was established in 1970 as the European equivalent of the Can-Am series in North America. Known as the ‘European Can-Am’, the Interserie replaced the Nordic Challenge Cup (NCC), which ran in 1969 in Finland...
Daytona 24 Hours, 3-4 February 1973: The start 1973 Daytona 24 hours led by John Watson in the Mirage on pole 1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after running only a 6-hour length in 1972. Ferrari in...
Turn Up the Volume to the Perfect Flat 6 Screaming Sounds This video is about a couple of Porsche 996 GT3 RSs I saw during a few hillclimb races and a Red Bull livered 996 GT3 RSR I recorded at Monza Circuit. The RS is moved by a 3.6-liter flat-six...
Run by Competent Motorsport, the Pirelli Trophy West USA is an amateur one-make racing series in which Porsche club racers take to established tracks around the country to battle it out on-board an array of Porsche GT3 and GT4 machinery. Mobil 1 The Grid took a trip to Laguna Seca,...
The No. 6 Porsche 963 wrapped up round six of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season in fourth place. Despite a difficult six-hour race at Watkins Glen, this result propelled Matt Campbell of Australia and Frenchman Mathieu Jaminet to the top of the drivers’ championship leaderboard, overtaking their fellow Porsche...
Porsche honored As the honored marque of this year’s Festival of Speed the sportscar manufacturer showed off with different actions. “We’re delighted that Goodwood gave us this brilliant opportunity to share our passion with enthusiasts, Porsche fans and owners here in the UK,” Krishan Bodhani, CEO, Porsche Cars Great Britain,...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 18-19 June 2016: Frédéric Makowiecki, Jörg Bergmeister and Earl Bamber posted a DNF having completed 140 laps due to a suspension problem in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2:...
Born: 7 February 1992 Where: Mainz, Germany Lives: Bingen, Germany Height: 1.81m Career 2017 Porsche works driver 2016 Porsche Junior, 1st Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Championship, 1st Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland Championship 2015 Porsche Junior, 2nd Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Championship, Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland Championship 2014 Porsche Junior, 1st...
Development of the 1979 Kremer-Porsche K3 Kremer Racing, headed up by the two brothers Erwin and Manfred, from Cologne, Germany, had been heavily involved in racing 911s since 1965 for their customers. They used various factory racing 911s, such as ST, and RSRs as a starting point and they started...
ADAC 24h-Classic, Nürburgring, 20-23 June 2019: Spectating at Brünchen during the Nürburgring ADAC 24h-Classic Boasting the largest starting grid of the weekend with 201 qualifiers, the ADAC 24h-Classic race was always going to be a busy event. Also, the wide spectrum of cars and the performance differential between the front...
(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...
At the age of 70, there aren’t many things left to tick off Jeff Zwart’s to-do list. When he’s not directing award-winning commercials, thrashing a Porsche up Pikes Peak, or choreographing the now iconic Luftgekühlt gathering, he spends his time at home on the ranch in Colorado, from where he...
2023 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Le Mans Centenaire Edition (992.1) Pictures & Gallery...
The #912 Porsche RSR that Gianmaria Bruni will share with Laurens Vanthoor There was great excitement in Porsche circles around the world, when it was announced earlier this year that the Italian Ferrari driver, Gianmaria Bruni, had split from his AF Corse Ferrari team and was to join the Porsche GTE ranks....
Born: 9 July 1990, Wanganui, New Zealand Lives: Kuala Lumpur (MAL) Marital status: Single Height/Weight: 1.83m/74kg Hobbies: Fitness, surfing, skiing Earl Bamber managed to scale the summit of long distance racing in record time. After winning the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship, one of the most extensive and sustained youth...
In this video from Daniel Abt, we get to see a 992-era 911 GT3 go head-to-head on a series of drag races against its racing version: the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Both of these cars are powered by a naturally aspirated 4.0-litre that revs to 9,000 rm and produces 503...
Ice Races GP, Zell am See, 19-20 January 2019: #118 Porsche 911 SC driven by Michael Stock After a 45-year hiatus, the popular Ice Race GP at Zell am See near the picturesque Austrian town of the same name, was revived last month to great acclaim. Thanks to an abundance...
Sports Car Racing in the South: Texas to Florida 1957-1958: by Willem Oosthoek © Dalton Watson Fine Books Motor racing in America in the late 1950s was beginning to show a much more organised front across the nation. However, race tracks were spread far and wide, and understandably, the media...
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...
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...
Photos: Martin Raffauf, Porsche, NBC/Peacock 61st Rolex 24 at Daytona starts new GTP era After months of anticipation, the 61st Rolex 24 at Daytona ushered in the new GTP era and the racing debut of the Porsche 963. Porsche partnered with Penske and had logged thousands of miles of testing. ...
Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this lavishly illustrated book is the seventh title in this decade-by-decade series. The series covers what has become the most important and celebrated endurance race on the international motorsport calendar, from its very beginning to...
Just over a month ago, the Porsche Carrera Cup North America waved the checkered flag on its 50th race, marking a significant milestone in its burgeoning history. While there have been many one-make racing series over time in North America, including the origins of the now world-wide Mazda MX-5 Cup...
Team player, media professional and of course, driving talent: These are just three of many important attributes taken into consideration during the selection of the Porsche Junior 2024. Twelve candidates have the chance to take the next big step in their young career on the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. They...
The three Porsche 963 fielded by Porsche Penske Motorsport at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will be decked out in a distinctive design. However, the fundamental look of the 963 will stay the same. The colourful designs were unveiled today (Friday, April 28) as part of the FIA...
All Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG In the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hour race, the Iron Dames team of Sarah Bovy, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting driving the No. 85 Porsche 911 RSR, was the only all-female squad in the centennial race. This was the...
Le Mans 24 Hour, 16-17 June 2012: The #55 JWA-Avila Porsche 997 GT3 RSR driven by Paul Daniels, Joël Camathias and Markus Palttala gets the full attention of the team in the pits. This car would finish 33rd overall and eighth in the GTE Am class This feature, the second...
Le Mans 24 Hours, Saturday 11 June 2022: The pre-race grid is packed with enthusiastic race goers Race day dawned with a blanket of morning mist covering the area. It was a crisp morning as I departed my accommodation to the east of Le Mans at around 07h15, and making...
Background The list of overall Porsche victories at the Sebring 12 Hours is long and prestigious: 1960 – Gendebien/Herrmann (Porsche RS-60) 1968 – Siffert/Herrmann (Porsche 907) 1971 – Elford/Larrousse (Porsche 917 K) 1973 – Haywood/Gregg/Helmick (Porsche Carrera RSR) 1976 – Holbert/Keyser (Porsche Carrera RSR) 1977 – Dyer/Frisselle (Porsche Carrera RSR)...
Reproduced with permission from SportsCarDigest. Every legend has its debut day: this was the case of the Porsche 911, which, in 1965, had its baptism of fire in the feared Monte-Carlo Rally. This was the first chapter in the victorious path of the 911, an adventure marked by great challenges...
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WEC 6 Hours of Fuji, 15 October 2017: The #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Bernhard/Bamber/Hartley leads the #1 sister car of Jani/Lotterer/Tandy at the start of the race, followed by the #8 and #7 Toyotas Sunday 15 October 2017 saw the running of Round 7 of the WEC Fuji, in...



































































































