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...
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The front door of Autobau, which is built inside a turn of the 20th century alcohol storage facility There is a collection of cars that every racing and car enthusiast should see. It is at the Autobau, located in Romanshorn, Switzerland. On the southern shore of Lake Constance, the Autobau...
Porsche is back! The German carmaker departed the world of endurance racing at the end of the 2017 season. In 2020 though, the automobile company announced plans to return, and now, they have taken a massive step in that direction with active track testing of the LMDh prototype. The extreme...
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...
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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...
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...
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)...
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...
Were you there? The 2007 FIA GT Silverstone RAC Tourist Trophy was the second race of the season in this 11-year old championship. This racing series allowed for GT race cars in two classes, GT1 and GT2, where the races were two hours long and required two mandatory pit stops....
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...
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In this documentary film, shot on location at Pikes Peak and directed by Ben Bertucci, we learn from David Donner how he approaches a race as treacherous as the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Donner gives us a glimpse into his history with the event throughout his racing career as...
Video: Onboard with Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR at the Le Mans 24H on 18/19 June 2017...
Highlights Type 992.2 911 based Cup car to take over starting in 2026 season A new name, improved aerodynamics, quicker lap times Improvements make new car simpler for teams to handle and support New 911 Cup continue to roll off the production line at the Zuffenhausen plant Porsche creates more...
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...
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...
Bob Akin’s 935, one of the major protagonists in the 1983 Sebring 12 Hour race. It was driven by Bob Akin, John O’Steen and Dale Whittington and finished second overall. (©Brian Cleary) The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old...
Hans Stuck at the wheel on the way to winning Sebring in 1986. His co-drivers were Jo Gartner and Bob Akin. (Porsche 962 chassis #962-113) The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA, and so the 962 was...
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...
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...
24 Hours of Daytona, 28/29 January 2017: Patrick Pilet, Frederic Makowiecki and Dirk Werner finished second in the GTLM class driving their #911 Porsche 911 RSR At the ten-hour Petit Le Mans race contested on the tradition-steeped Road Atlanta racetrack last Saturday, the new 911 RSR scored its first two...
#1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer and Nick Tandy 2017 This weekend, the World Endurance Championship (WEC) moves to the Nürburgring in western Germany for round 4 of the series. In the LMP1 class, Porsche leads with 111 points, 24.5 points ahead of Toyota (86.5 points). [Ed...
Rolex 24 at Daytona, 30-31 January 2021: Some of the Porsches do a publicity shot at the ROAR I first came to this race in 1971, so this would be my 50th year at the Daytona 24 hours. It is an interesting exercise to look back at what has changed...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical troubles suggested that winning was out of the question. But neither its drivers nor Porsche number 4 believed that. Against strong opposition from Alpine-Renault and Alfa Romeo, Porsche took the...
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...
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...
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...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 19/20 September 2020: The pre-race grid was a busy place despite the presence of the Covid-19 pandemic – note the empty grandstand The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record. Only twice has the...
The No. 7 Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport works team has won the 24 Hours of Daytona. Works drivers Felipe Nasr from Brazil, Dane Cameron from the USA and Matt Campbell from Australia as well as American IndyCar star Josef Newgarden extended Porsche’s record number of victories...
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Words and Images by Kevin Ehrlich and Martin Raffauf An endurance race around the clock can pivot on the events of seconds. The margin at the finish of the 2024 Rolex 24 was only two seconds. Porsche’s Filipe Nasr outlasted Tom Blomquist to claim Porsche’s 19th overall win as a...
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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...
Porsche 962C In-Car Video Filmed between 2010-2016 at Circuit Zolder, Spa-Francorchamps, Zandvoort, Le Mans and Goodwood....
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what series, no matter what track – Porsche’s racing victories formed the bread and butter of Erich Strenger’s work. As a freelance graphic designer from 1951, he designed sales catalogs, driver’s...
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...
Intercontinental GT Challenge: Suzuka Absolute Racing came away with a strong showing in the 1,000-kilometer endurance at Suzuka, capping six and a half hours of flat-out racing on Japan’s legendary Formula 1 circuit. Porsche factory aces Kévin Estre (France) and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium), teamed with fellow Frenchman Patrick Pilet, powered...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 14-15 June 1969: On the final lap, the No. 64 Porsche 908 LH of Hans Herrmann/Gérard Larrousse swapped places with the No. 6 Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx/Jackie Oliver as many as five times. The two cars were so evenly matched that what the Ford lacked...
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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...
With its signature rear-engine layout and unmistakable six-cylinder exhaust note, the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) is the latest addition to the Stuttgart firm’s GT3 car lineup. This impressive vehicle is capable of generating an impressive 565bhp while weighing just 1250kg. Watch it in action as 19Bozzy92 from YouTube managed...
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...
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...
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At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Porsche unveiled the 911 GT3 R Hybrid with an innovative hybrid drive, marking a new milestone in Porsche’s history, which boasts over 20,000 racing victories in 45 years with the 911. This hybrid technology, developed specifically for racing, is notably different from conventional hybrid systems...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 16-17 June 2007: Busy grid just before the start of the race Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR. In many ways, this new model was a better all-round race car, being more...
Edited by Rex McAfee Get Ready for the Daytona 24 If there were ever two words that go together in motorsports, it’s Porsche and Daytona. This weekend, the 24-hour test of man and machine will once again take place, and the new GTP class is bound to keep Porsche fans...
Top Tier Penske Porsche Penske Motorsport has set its sights on overall victory at the upcoming 24 Hours of Daytona. At the opening round of the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the works team competes with two Porsche 963 and a top driver line-up. The hybrid prototype from Weissach heads...
Timo Bernhard, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 24 February 1981 Where: Homburg/Saar (Germany) Lives: Bruchmühlbach-Miesau (Germany) Marital status: Married to Katharina, sons Paul and Ben Height/Weight: 1.74 m/60 kg Hobbies: Fitness, music, rally, running He has won all major sports car endurance races: Daytona, Sebring, and the...
Company Bio Founder Olaf Manthey—a German professional race car driver—founded the company, Manthey Racing GmbH in 1996. Prior to this, Manthey had already established himself as a successful driver in a variety of German racing series, winning two Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) races, along with victories in the Ford Super...
The 2024 season will go down as one of the most successful in Porsche’s long-distance history: in just the second year with the Porsche 963, the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart won seven of eight possible titles together with the works team Porsche Penske Motorsport. The basis for this result...
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...
Porsche 997 GT3 Rally Cars Sounding Spectacular...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 31 May-1 June 1986: Start of the race – Porsches dominate the lead group In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful part of South Africa, the Western Cape, shares with us some hilarious...
Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG Foreword This article is part of our series featuring the historical development of various iconic Porsche models over the years. Be sure to check out our other features: No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium...
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...
Every year, during the Le Mans 24 Hours weekend, some other motor racing series shares the paddock and the race track with the 60 teams taking part at the race world’s famous endurance event. For the 2017 edition, there were two series to accompany the race week: Road to Le...
In the 2024 season, the Porsche 911 GT3 R established itself as the standard-bearer in the world’s premier endurance racing series. Represented by the seasoned customer teams Manthey and AO Racing, the 911 claimed championship titles in both the FIA World Endurance Championship (LMGT3 class) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar...
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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...
After racing at Spa, Zandvoort, Dijon, Magny Cours and Barcelona, the Porsche teams and drivers went to the south of France for the season finale. The 2018 season of the Porsche Carrera Cup France ended last week at Le Castellet – Paul Ricard circuit, where Ayhacan Guven was declared the...
Porsche continues to top the leaderboard in two classifications at the season’s halfway point. Tackling the Monaco race from pole position on Saturday, Pascal Wehrlein extended his championship lead. Background Porsche contests its fifth Formula E season in 2024. In addition to the works-run TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team,...
Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal quantities of bright sunshine and torrential downpours. The Ebimotors team gathered with their #80 Porsche RSR for the family snap just as another downpour descended upon all and sundry (drivers:...
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...
An ecstatic Porsche team after their World Championship victory in Shanghai The team in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid, Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber scored a start-to-finish victory in the Shanghai round of the World Endurance Championships (WEC) on 6 November 2016. This race, the eighth and penultimate...
Back in the States The Le Mans debacle is over, and now it’s time for Porsche Penske Motorsport to head to round five of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as the leader of the team classification. In the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen in the US state of New York,...
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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,...
(2019-2020) Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991.2) Technical Specifications Concept Single-seat customer race car, basis: 911 GT3 RS (991.2) Engine Water-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed boxer engine (rear mounted) Displacement 4,000cm³; stroke 81.5mm; bore 102mm Power 550hp, subject to FIA BoP classification (air restrictor) Single mass flywheel 4-valve technology Direct fuel injection...
The short answer—yes. The simple answer—it really depends. The sweeping answer—keep reading below. If you’ve made it this far into the article, either your curiosity has been piqued, or you’re in the mood to partake in some fact-checking (in lieu of a debate made possible only with face-to-face dialogue). There...
Porsche at Le Mans – The Ultimate Guide to Every Year & Every Result Circuit de la Sarthe is situated 130 miles/209 km west of Paris beside the city of Le Mans in the Sarthe county. The circuit is mostly a combination of country roads closed for the race, but...
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...
Round four at WeatherTech Raceway, Laguna Seca, brought adrenalin levels back up to “red line” for Porsche enthusiasts lucky enough to watch the weekend unfold. This iconic course near the Monterey peninsula has challenged the world’s greatest racers since 1957 when it took over the duties from nearby Pebble Beach,...
The 15th Targa California rally recently concluded with most drivers logging 1,000+ miles over the roads “less traveled” of California’s central region. Porsche has a long history of naming their cars after yesteryear’s most grueling events (e.g. the Carrera Panamericana and the Targa Floria), and while this rally is by...
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...
PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM: Porsche at the top 24-hour races – Nürburgring/Le Mans/Daytona © Delius Klasing & Co. KG Bielefeld So, what is this book, PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM, all about? Basically, renowned photographer Frank Kayser teamed up with journalist Heike Hientzsch, to capture the pain and the glory experienced by the Porsche crew and team...
Memories of Porsche 917-021 at Le Mans 24H and driving at Spa Francorchamps. This video footage was shot to accompany the book ‘Porsche 917-021 – The Fabulous Story’....
Fritz Enzinger, Vice President Porsche LMP1 (Silverstone 2016) Born: 15 September 1956 Where: Oberwölz, Austria Lives: Munich Marital status: Married with one daughter Hobby: Icelandic horses At the end of 2011, the Styrian started to shape Porsche’s return to top motorsport, with a new building, new staff and a new...
The cars proceed into Spa city during the 2017 Spa 24 Hour drivers’ parade The Total 24 Hours of Spa, a round of the Blancpain GT Series, gets underway this weekend on the famous Belgian circuit. This round is also the second in the four-race Intercontinental GT Challenge which is...
I have always wondered, what the Goodwood FOS (Festival of Speed) was all about. Was it a race, a hill-climb, a demonstration of old race cars, or a car show? Well, I had the opportunity to find out this year. In this feature, a ‘First Timers’ view of the Goodwood...
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The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the best-selling race car globally, now in its seventh generation with over 5,000 units produced. The latest model retains the 4.0L naturally aspirated engine from its predecessor and the 992 GT3 road car but with increased power. It now delivers 510 hp at 8,400...
With a company like Porsche developing powerful and efficient race engines, it was inevitable that other body and chassis builders would plant a Porsche engine into one of their own creations. With so many builders doing this, it was therefore inevitable too, that an author would sooner or later pick...
Great sound, great engine! Filmed at Circuit Spa-Francorchamps, Zolder and the Nürburgring between 2011-2017. Great compilation of on-track fun in a bunch of 911 RSR 3.0 racecars....
Porsche Junior Theo Oeverhaus has won the 2025 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup opening round in Imola. After an action-packed race at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, where the first Supercup race in history was contested in 1993, the young German clinched victory ahead of Israeli Ariel Levi and Dutchman...
#91 and #92 Porsche 911 RSR with drivers and team attend scrutineering for the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Place de la République on 12 June 2017 Porsche aims to contest the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hour race with four works cars in the GTE Pro class, as...
The Porsche Carrera World Cup is back. Fifteen years after the inaugural gathering of 911 GT3 Cup cars from around the world, the second edition will be held on the first weekend of March 2026. From its 2011 debut on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the Porsche Carrera World Cup now heads...
In a garage full of legendary vehicles, one in particular stands out: the Porsche 935. The Porsche 935 was the first rear-engine race car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. On the occasion of the classic car’s centennial, we visited the 1979 winning vehicle in its current owner’s...
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. ...




































































































