FIA GT World Cup Macau (China), 15-18 November 2018: #911 Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R of Laurens Vanthoor and the #912 Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R of Earl Bamber There will be four Porsche 911 GT3 R on the starting line of the world’s toughest street race, the FIA GT...
The undisputed King The Porsche 917, conceived in the late 1960s, emerged from Porsche’s strategic intent to conquer the World Sportscar Championship, particularly the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This ambition materialized through exploiting a loophole in the homologation requirements, allowing the creation of a vehicle with unprecedented speed and...
Porsche X Iron Dames – because every dream matters” is a slogan that represents the close collaboration between Porsche Motorsport and the renowned initiative to promote women in motorsport. The project kicks off with the start of the Asian Le Mans Series next weekend in Sepang, Malaysia. Four fast female...
Dawn parade – photographers and enthusiastic race goers break the skyline at the Mount Panorama circuit ahead of the Bathurst 12 Hour race The Bathurst 12 Hour race serves as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. First held in 1991, the Bathurst 12 Hour initially catered for production-based...
Preparation is key After almost two years of planning and preparation, Porsche Penske Motorsports’ FIA World Endurance Championship campaign has began this last weekend as the highly-anticipated Hypercar class makes its debut in The Prologue pre-season test in Sebring, Florida. Porsche Penske Motorsport’s pair of FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 13 June 2015: The start of the race sees the lead LMP1 cars shooting ahead of the rest of the field, which is still making its way through the Ford Chicane. The starter can be seen waving the flag at the end of the Rolex platform...
Porsche 962-003 finished 3rd in the 1985 Le Mans 24 Hours and came back in 1986 to win the race overall. Other victories include: Hockenheim 1000 Km, Mosport 1000 Km, Brands Hatch 1000 Km, Monza 360 Km, with numerous other podium results From 19-21 February 2021, Brian Redman will again...
2023 Carrera Cup is here Porsche Motorsport North America is set to contest its most dynamic Porsche Carrera Cup North America season to date. The premier one-make race series in the United States and Canada will be renamed the Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America while also expanding its stage...
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...
Vintage and Modern combined Amid a cadre of historic, even legendary, Porsche race and road cars in attendance at Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7, September 28 – October 1 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, will be 36 equally presented Porsche race cars; all built within the last three...
The 2023 Goodwood Revival featured the Fordwater Trophy race, marking 60 years of the Porsche 911. The race showcased 30 early 901 and 911 models, all running on sustainable fuels. Each race featured two drivers, with a star-studded lineup that included Mark Webber in his historic racing debut, F1 champion...
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...
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...
Vintage and Modern combined Amid a cadre of historic, even legendary, Porsche race and road cars in attendance at Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7, September 28 – October 1 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, will be 36 equally presented Porsche race cars; all built within the last three...
Follmer with Vasek Pollack in 1976.
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before he was two years old and it was in this northern suburb of Los Angeles that he grew up and raised his own family. He was, he says, a reasonable...
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...
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. ...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 16-17 June 2018: #92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Michael Christensen, Kévin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor, class winners in LMGTE Pro crosses the finishing line On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be held on...
Le Mans Test day grid line-up, 2 June 2018 Well it’s official, pigs can fly! The #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre/Laurens Vanthoor/Dirk Werner may not have topped the lap charts on Sunday at the Le Mans Test day, but they were just 1.3 seconds off their team...
The two factory Porsches approach Turn 1 which leaves the oval. The immensity of the grandstands can be seen behind. The factory cars ran well, given that they are brand new cars. Driver line-ups are slightly changed from last year: the #911 will have Nick Tandy, Fred Makowiecki and new...
Photography by Matty White Media. A supremely promising early phase of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 shone favorably on Porsche, where their Factory Hypercars were performing well. Customer Hypercars in the hands of Jota and Proton were dominating, and the GT3 entries run by Manthey were the toast of...
Macau, FIA GT World Cup, 18 November 2018: The #912 Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R was driven by Earl Bamber Porsche scores fourth place at Macau in the 2018 FIA GT World Cup in Macau. In a fiercely contested race on the Guia Circuit, works driver Earl Bamber narrowly missed...
Debut season a success With a fifth-place finish at the WEC season finale in Bahrain, Manthey EMA secured a one-two victory in the 2024 LMGT3 championship for Manthey. Unfavorable Safety Car periods cost both Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 R the chance of a podium finish. The driver line-up of Klaus...
The adventure begins Organized by the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Rennsport Reunion 7 Rally began September 27th at an amazing private collection in Southern California. Porsche enthusiasts ventured through some of the most exciting canyons, and gorgeous vineyard roads, and cruised along California’s most famous highways. Day 1 ended in...
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,...
Story by Glen Smale. All images courtesy of © Porter Press Int. Porsche’s Type 956, 962 and 962C is the world’s most successful prototype race car ever produced. Developed specifically for the Group C class that ran between 1982 and 1992, and the IMSA series in the USA, these three versions...
Porsche in red and black plaid livery on track at Sebring 2022
Photo Courtesy: Chuck Andersen The 2022 IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring will be remembered for Earl Bamber’s late charge to victory lane in his Ganassi Cadillac, a heavy crash that took out GTD and LMP2 favorites, and two Ferraris emerging to stand on the GTD podium. It will not be...
The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup kicks off the new season this coming weekend at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. Once again, the calendar includes eight races as part of the Formula 1 support program. Striving for carbon neutrality At the season opener in Imola, Italy, the flat-six engine of the Porsche...
Rennsport Collective, Donington Hall, 20 July 2019: Porsche 996 GT1 Evo 1997 on display with numerous other Porsche classics They were all there, from a Pre-A 356 to the latest 991.2 GT3 Clubsport, by way of the most mouth-watering collection of 911s, 956 and 962s, including the indomitable 917. The...
We return to the year 1980 and the ill-fated Typ 940 program. By 1979, Porsche had become ubiquitous in the American car market. Offering products that mixed economy, performance, and, more importantly, an identity blended with a unique lifestyle, the Zuffenhausen brand knew it had struck gold. It is no...
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...
Porsche 911 991.1 GT3 RS
Jean Behra following his accident at Caracas 3 November 1957 Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative soul who seemed to thrive only when living on the ragged edge and for whom an exploit was either going...
The former world champion, Jake Dennis, converted pole position into victory in a dramatic 30-lap showdown, reclaiming the lead after a late safety-car interruption by the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT and deploying his final Attack Mode to decisive effect. After a red flag set up a one-lap shootout to the...
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:...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and eight 12-hour wins at Sebring, and upon all of them can be found the fingerprints of Norbert Singer. A 30-year-old graduate engineer with a Masters in Mechanical Engineer, Aviation...
Le Mans 24 Hour, 17-18 June 2017: Patrick Long being interviewed at Scrutineering on 11 June 2017. He drove the #93 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR California may seem like the ideal place on earth to live, with its legendary beaches, surf and laid back lifestyle, but they too are...
Fog delays start The 69th ADAC Westfalenfahrt was the fifth race of the season for the Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring (PETN), in which 27 participants competed in the classes Cup 2 and Cup 3. The four-hour race, which is part of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS), started with a 45-minute delay...
Born: 8 May 1981 Where: Hasselt, Belgium Lives: Waiblingen, Germany Height: 1.80m Career 2017    Porsche works driver 2016    Audi works driver, Winner FIA GT World Cup Macau, Winner Intercontinental GT Challenge, 1st Dubai 24 Hours, 1st Sepang 12 Hours, 3rd Blancpain GT Series 2015    Audi works driver, 1st Nürburgring 24...
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...
Whether you’re a novice or advanced HPDE driver, trying to crack the formula for determining the “best track tire” can be challenging. Many factors go into deciding which tire will work best for you—budget, the type of vehicle you’re driving, intended usage, and sizing availability, to name a few. Nevertheless,...
Amid a milestone fifth season, Porsche Carrera Cup North America continues a tradition unique in the United States. The championship makes multiple stops as a support series at Formula 1® races in North America each season. This year, all three of the Championship classes will appear in doubleheader rounds at...
#19 Porsche 919 LMP1-Hybrid, winner of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans. Even just the name evokes memories of classic races, unbelievable tragedy, and some of the fiercest battles ever fought over an 8.5 mile (13.6 KM) stretch of road known as “le Circuit de la Sarthe.” These hallowed grounds are where Porsche ultimately proved their...
Jake Dennis and Pepe Martí of the Porsche customer teams Andretti Formula E and Cupra Kiro also scored points, finishing fifth and seventh, respectively, making it four Porsche cars in the top nine. In the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship’s 150th race, factory drivers Wehrlein and Müller used the...
Total 6 Hours of Spa‐Francorchamps, 4 May 2019: The #56 Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR being prepped in the pit garage ahead of practice on 2 May Project 1 burst onto the World Endurance Championship (WEC) scene at the start of the 2018 Super Season. We covered their arrival on...