(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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Patrick Pilet in relaxed mood during an interview prior to the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours We met up with Patrick Pilet recently at the Carrera Cup prize giving ceremony and were able to have a word with him… Patrick, the 2019 season started one month ago at Daytona 24...
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Porsche Penske Motorsport will once again field three Porsche 963 race cars at the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans in the 2024 season. The organizer, ACO, confirmed that the Porsche works team will campaign a third car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. French works driver Mathieu Jaminet...
WEC & IMSA The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna hosts the FIA WEC for the first time on the Formula 1 circuit. On the same weekend, the Porsche Penske Motorsport crew will race in Long Beach on the west coast of the USA. There, they aim to repeat last year’s success...
Marathon de la Route, Nürburgring, 22-26 August 1967: Getting ready for the 1967 Marathon de la Route outside Werk 2 in Zuffenhausen – in the centre is Vic Elford, one of the winning drivers that year The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was...
Best On Track POV Video I’ve Ever Seen This Porsche 911 Carrera RSR being hammered on-track is the stuff of dreams. This is a 1974 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 (1974) on Zandvoort circuit driven by Harm Lagaaij. The car is owned by Porsche Museum. Camera angle and audio quality are...
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...
The works Porsche 911 GT1 was leading with a decent margin by 2pm on Sunday. Around after 1.40pm, Ralf Kelleners jumped into the Porsche after a pit stop. He would drive for an other stint, only for the Porsche to catch fire at the Mulsanne hump. The leader stops on...
In the realm of high-performance automobiles, few names evoke as much reverence as Porsche’s iconic 911 series. Revered for their precision engineering, relentless speed, and sheer driving pleasure, these vehicles have long been the benchmark for sports cars. However, Porsche’s prowess extends beyond the realm of road cars, with the...
Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA) has announced the 2026 Porsche Carrera Cup North America schedule, featuring a mix of traditional road courses on IMSA race weekends and Formula One support races at Miami and Austin. The championship will compete as part of the Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend for...
The winning drivers from Porsche’s first Le Mans 24 Hour victory on 14 June 1970 (from L-R) Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood (2019) Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most respected and...
Porsche Motorsport heads into 2024 with big aspirations. Next year, the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart is determined to win titles with its factory teams in the world’s largest endurance championships, at Le Mans, and various esports series. A variety of customer racing activities will supplement this program. Porsche announced...
Porsche factory driver Nick Tandy is the unofficial king of endurance racing since January 26 of this year: The Briton clinched victory at the Rolex 24 At Daytona at the wheel of a Porsche 963, completing the coveted “Grand Slam” of endurance racing. Throughout his impressive career, Tandy has taken...
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...
997 Carrera Cup Champions & Results The 997 GT3 Cup was introduced in January 2005 for the upcoming racing season. The 3.6-litre durable old-school unit got 294 kW and maximum 8200 rpm (last 996 Cup: 287 kW and rev limitter at 8000). The transmission was a 6-speed sequential dog-type gearbox...
At the Road Atlanta finale, the factory team scooped the entire title pool in the top GTP class. Porsche Penske Motorsport’s two Porsche 963s finished the ten-hour Petit Le Mans race in second and third place. Works drivers Dane Cameron from the USA and Felipe Nasr from Brazil secured the...
Spa-Francorchamps, 9 April 2018: Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, Porsche LMP Team In the year following a third consecutive WEC title, Porsche is taking its World Championship winning race car around the world on a ‘goodbye tour’. The Stuttgart company is well aware that a little bit of good PR never...
The 2018 Supercup finale in Mexico will quite literally go down to the wire! Fans in Mexico can look forward to a suspense-filled season finale of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. The three competitors in the frame will fight for the championship title at rounds...
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The two Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport works team clinched the first one-two victory at round ten of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Works drivers Nick Tandy from the UK and Mathieu Jaminet from France won the 2:40-hour race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Their Porsche colleagues...
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...
(from L-R): 1982 Porsche 956 C and 2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo Just before the Nürburgring 24-hour race will be green flagged on May 12, Porsche will present a dream team at the Nürburgring Nordschleife for the benefit of the expected 200,000 spectators. There, Timo Bernhard and Hans-Joachim Stuck will...
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....
#2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb awaits scrutineering in the city centre of Le Mans 24H 2016 Amid much Paris-style razzmatazz, the ACO today announced the entrants for this year’s 24 Hour race. It goes without saying that last year’s winners, Porsche, will be...
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...
Project 1 may be a new team on the block in WEC, but this year, the team celebrates its 25th anniversary in motorsport. This season is certainly its biggest commitment to date as 2018 will see the team from Lohne, Germany, participating in the Carrera Cup Deutschland, the Mobil 1...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 14-15 June 1975: Porsche 9083 in the paddock ahead of the race (copyright Yves Ronga) When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got my head down, researching various projects for clients, usually to do...
Saturday disqualification For Janne Stiak, round six of the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland at the Sachsenring was somewhat of a rollercoaster. He crossed the finish line in third place on Saturday but was later disqualified after his car failed technical scrutineering. Sunday Comeback On Sunday, he drove to a...
John McCullagh announced his return to the Porsche Carrera Cup with a magnificent third-place finish for Round 8 of the UK’s fastest single-make racing series at the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk on 29/30 July. Starting in 13th position overall on the grid, John made a good start and began to...
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This weekend, on April 8-10, the streets of Southern California will host the Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands. The classic silhouette of the Porsche 911 is not a rare sighting on the streets of Southern California, but this coming weekend is a little more special...
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Video: Onboard with Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR at the Le Mans 24H on 18/19 June 2017...
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...
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From 1990 to 2019, Porsche has already produced over 4,200 units of the 911 GT3 Cup and each of them are built for the race track. Each example was also intensively tested by professional racing drivers before they are delivered to the customers. Bring A Trailer offers you the chance...
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Prepare to be spoiled at Kalmar events Travelling to the capital of Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle, specially prepared classic Porsche 911s have taken part in the new-look KALMAR Beyond Adventure Arctic Season event. The Rovaniemi location in Finland provided thrilling new tracks, totalling over 300 km, as well...
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...
On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be held on 15-16 June. Just as in 2018, no less than ten 911 RSRs will be in action, with the potential for that number swelling to twelve if the two...
This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2: 2010-2012) and highlights the continued growth and success of the evergreen Porsche 911 on the UK and European motorsport scene between 2013 and 2016. Having benefitted from full media and photographer access...
Yes, you might think the title is a mis- print, but it is not. HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) put on their now annual Historic 24-hour race for vintage cars at Daytona International Speedway from 4-8 November. This event is run in a similar fashion to the Le Mans 24 historic...
It’s out, the new model Porsche 911 RSR was launched this evening at the LA Auto Show. Porsche will tackle the 2017 racing season with its all-out newly developed GT racer which features an ultra-modern, flat-six unit positioned in front of the rear axle. The four-litre, extremely light aggregate features...
The final round of the 2016 FIA WEC gets under way at 16h00 on 19 November. Leading the cars into the first corner of the 6 Hours of Bahrain is the eventual winner, the #8 Audi (Virtual Motorpix/John Mountney) For the second consecutive year, Porsche has taken all the titles...
Located in the town of Ummendorf, approximately 130km south east of Stuttgart, Proton Competition has been working on Porsche race cars for twenty-one years. Motor racing started in the family when Gerold Ried, father to Michael and Christian, began racing with some friends in 1994 and 1995 with a Porsche...
Porsche Off the Pace Words: Kevin Ehrlich. Photos: Martin Raffauf, Porsche 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 Epic Sound of 997 GT3 in Nature...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 13-14 June 1981: Team photo following a successful technical inspection A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1981. But let us not get ahead of ourselves… The 1981 season...
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 has clinched first and second place at round two of this year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Brazilian Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy from Great Britain, and Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium swept to victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring at the wheel of their No. 7 Porsche 963. This victory...
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While this year’s spotlight at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (RMMR) was both the 75th anniversary of Formula 1, Porsche fans had plenty to rejoice about with a strong showing of the Stuttgart marque in numerous classes. But first, a little background on the RMMR. The start of modern vintage...
Photos courtesy Porsche and Chuck Anderson High expectations for Porsche not realized at the Sebring 12 Hours Unlike previous years where Stuttcars have reported on Porsche dominating the 12 hour endurance spectacle, 2023 was a reminder of the “tough luck” side of racing. Porsche was the verge of an improbable...
Porsche Penske Motorsport has a chance to sweep the title in the top GTP class at the final round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The factory squad travels to the 10-hour race at Road Atlanta in the US state of Georgia with its two Porsche 963 as the leaders...
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...
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While Audi has been making waves recently by agreeing to buy up a majority share of the Sauber F1 team, Porsche and Red Bull Racing could not seem to come to an agreement. Despite there being a multitude of reasons why the deal fell through, the biggest takeaway is that...
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Both Mark Webber and Peter Dumbreck flipped their Mercedes CLR-GT1s during practice for the 1999 Le Mans 24 hour race. Eleven years later Webber has flipped again after his Red Bull gave him wings at the 2010 European GP...
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Ultimate Track Test Introducing the ULTIMATE 911 – the Porsche 911 GT2 RS! When it comes to road-going sports cars, it doesn’t get much better than this! It’s worth a whopping £236,000, but for that, you’ll be able to hit 0-60mph in under 3 seconds thanks to its 3.8-litre flat...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) revealed just yesterday, Tuesday 9 March 2021, the 62-strong entry list for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Announced recently too was the revised date for this year’s race, this being at the later than usual start time of 16h00 on 21-22 August. What will...
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From 19-21 February 2021, Brian Redman will again host a superb gathering of top-notch high-performance sports cars and race cars at Palm Beach International Raceway. The exclusive Targa 66 event is open to invitees and their customers over the weekend and this year, Brian will also be celebrating the 30th...
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...
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...
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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...
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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....
Motor racing has always involved risk for the drivers, and sometimes for spectators too, as was seen to horrific effect The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk in the disaster that occurred at the 1955 Le Mans 24...
The Porsche 936 was a racing car introduced in 1976 by Porsche as a delayed successor to the Porsche 908, a three litre sportscar prototype which was retired by the factory after 1971. Its name came from using a variant of the Porsche 930’s turbocharged engine, as well as competing...
The number 6 Porsche 963 from Porsche Penske Motorsport finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans in second place. In a highly exciting battle for overall victory, Matt Campbell, Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor were just 14.084 seconds behind the victorious Ferrari. After 387 laps, the other two identical hybrid...
Sunday 15 October 2017 saw the running of Round 7 of the WEC Fuji, in Japan. It is quite typical to encounter heavy rain, even typhoons, in Japan at this time of the year, as a quick trip back through the motorsport history books will show. The teams and the...
The two Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport factory squad went unrewarded for their tireless fight for the championship. In the last race of this year’s IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship at Road Atlanta, the two hybrid prototypes from Weissach crossed the finish line in fourth and tenth in...
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Porsche 935/78 “Moby Dick” Coupé, photographed at the Porsche Warehouse in May 2017 Set for this weekend, 17-18 March, the 76th Members’ Meeting at the Goodwood Motor Circuit is bound to be an absolute humdinger. If you are a Porsche enthusiast, then I hope that you have your ticket safely...
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Jägermeister Porsche 934 chassis #930 670 0167 The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies of some of the great race cars in the 1970s and 1980s, and irrespective of whether the car won a race or not,...
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...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 9/10 June 1979: Its a tense time as the lead car, the #41 Numero Reserve Kremer Porsche 935 K3 driven by brothers Bill and Don Whittington, and Klaus Ludwig calls into the pits. Winning the Le Mans 24 Hour was without doubt the highlight of the...
1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 Technical Specifications Engine Location Rear Drive Type Rear Wheel Body / Chassis Monocoque chassis and Fiberglass body Model Years 1974 Weight 1808 lbs / 820.095 kg Engine Turbocharged Flat 6 | 911/76 B6 Displacement 2142 cc / 130.7 cu in. / 2.1 Liters...
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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12 Hours of Sebring, 17 March 2018: The #912 Porsche 911 RSR of Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Gianmaria Bruni during the race Changes to the Sebring 2019 schedule were announced during the week which will benefit all endurance racing fans. Following a recent meeting between the FIA World Endurance...
On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be held on 15-16 June. Just as in 2018, no less than ten 911 RSRs will be in action, with the potential for that number swelling to twelve if the two...




































































































