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Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
This weekend sees the first double-header at Sebring with the running of both round 6 of the World Endurance Championship...
There was a double victory for Porsche at Sebring, as the #91 Porsche 911 RSR of Gianmaria Bruni/Richard Lietz won...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be...
On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be...
For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a...
Following a fifteen-year absence from the top tier of prototype racing on the world stage, Porsche officially returned to the...
Dirk Werner, Matt Campbell and Dennis Olsen clinched victory in the opening round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Competing across the series, the Porsche GT Team set out on a mission to win twice in two days at...
The week’s preparations started well for the factory Porsche team, as the two cars locked out the front row of...
Our second trip to Spa in the 2018/2019 Super Season takes place at a time when the teams, across all...
Spa woke to snow falling at 06h30 yesterday morning, and by the time I had made it to the circuit,...
Sport vs. Sporty vs. Sportiest On paper, you might not be surprised to see the result in the Top Gear...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Although the factory squad was crowned the World Manufacturers champions for the first 2018/2019 Super Season, their success in the...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Before we arrived in Le Mans for the start of the 2019 week of activities, we knew that the weather...
The more things change, the more they stay the same…someone famous once said. Perhaps the same can be said for...
Endurance racing should be a test of sustained strength and stamina over a prolonged period of time. It is not...
Depending on your view, the Gods of the Green Hell either restored Porsche to its rightful place on the top...
POV Drive In A Porsche 911 3.0 Carrera RSR Factory Porsche racer Patrick Long has a million-dollar historic 911 3.0...
The biggest car race in the world on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife with 160 teams facing the challenge. The 25...
I have worked at many race tracks in the UK and Europe over the years, but the Nürburgring has always...
Boasting the largest starting grid of the weekend with 201 qualifiers, the ADAC 24h-Classic race was always going to be...
In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will...
What better way to introduce a new race car model, than to do so as the 2018/2019 Super Season World...
Improving a Car That’s Already Excellent The Porsche 911 RSR is a car that has won more than 20 FIA World...
On Board Hot off the heels of the unveiling of the new Porsche 911 RSR, we’re looking back with the...
Project 1 burst onto the World Endurance Championship (WEC) scene at the start of the 2018 Super Season. We covered...
Over the years, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has hosted hundreds of historic Porsches in its paddocks and up Lord...
They were all there, from a Pre-A 356 to the latest 991.2 GT3 Clubsport, by way of the most mouth-watering...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
On the 2010 Le Mans starting grid before the race was the (foreground) #76 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3...
Were you there? The 2007 FIA GT Silverstone RAC Tourist Trophy was the second race of the season in this...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
A Unique Tribute From its humble beginnings, this 1970 911 enjoyed a varied life, most notably as a rather tasty...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
IMSA once again came to Laguna Seca for the penultimate round in the 2019 Championship. There was a buzz of...
The age of motorsport, when an aspiring photographer could amble around the paddock snapping world championship drivers, team personnel and...
Last held officially as a 9-hour race back in 1982, Kyalami will play host to the revival of a great...
Porsche 993 Cup 3.8 RSR On Track Video dedicated to a 1995 Porsche 993 Cup 3.8 RSR driven by Ralph...
IMSA of course has several Marquee events, including the Daytona 24-hour, Sebring 12-hour, Watkins Glen 6-hour, and the Petit Le...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
It’s funny how things have a way of working out perfectly on the spur of the moment. Recently we covered...
In 1963 Enzo Ferrari made a decision that had far-reaching consequences, when he snubbed an attempt by Ford to buy...
On 23 November 2019, the sound of approximately 15,000 bhp will break the long silence that has persisted over the...
The ‘sunset’ for Team Perfect Circle in Kyalami 9 Hour occurred just three hours into the race when a mechanical...
It must rank as one of the most awesome races in the world. This year was my first visit to...
The Roar at Daytona was completed on Sunday 6 January. This has become a standard three-day test put on by...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covering the Le Mans 24 Hours decade-by-decade, concerns the 1960s. Many will agree...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
This year was the 58th Running of the Daytona 24. It started in 1962 at just three hours in length,...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
The 27th publishing of this superb edition of Porsche Sport 2019 by Gruppe C Verlag, opens with this paragraph, “The year...
After the music had died down, and the last of the revellers had left the party that had just a...
PORSCHE ROAD & RACE has been out looking for some of the Porsche drivers and finding out what they have...
PORSCHE ROAD & RACE caught up with the amiable Jörg Bergmeister, to ask him how he has been dealing with...
Two of the world’s greatest endurance races for GT vehicles within eight days on back-to-back weekends show how Porsche Motorsport...
ENDURANCE is a look back at the two greatest endurance races that the Porsche GT Team faced on back-to-back weekends...
California may seem like the ideal place on earth to live, with its legendary beaches, surf and laid back lifestyle,...
Some awesome youtuber went ahead and compiled an awesome set of Porsche GT3 rally videos and we are in heaven....
Motor racing in America in the late 1950s was beginning to show a much more organised front across the nation....
Best of Porsche Rally Cars...
This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2: 2010-2012) and...
On the world stage, GT racing has enjoyed as many ups as it has had downs over the years, but...
As the weekend of the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours approaches, 13-14 June, we take a look back at...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Few people outside of the UK would have noticed that last year, a new land speed record was set on...
Over the years, there has been a lot written on the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race...
19Bozzy92 has come out with another glorious video, this time from Monza during the 2020 Kateyama Test Days event held...
With the dawning of the 1982 season, the introduction of the Group C era ushered in a new breed of...
19Bozzy92, our favorite YouTuber, has caught an absolute stunner this time around, across two videos. The stunner in question is...
More than 4.75 million visitors have passed through the doors of Porsche’s Museum in Stuttgart since the company officially opened...
Under unseasonably hot conditions for late September, the 88th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is finally a reality....
The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record....
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
It is with great sadness that the motorsport world learned last week that Zef Eisenberg, aged just 47 years, was...
Regular Goodwood attendees would have been starved of all the glorious action in 2020 that this venue has to offer,...
The phone rang, it was my old friend Carlos de Quesada. “I’ve just bought a 935 to restore,” he told...
Yes, you might think the title is a mis- print, but it is not. HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) put on...
JLP-4 was the final race car in the line of Porsche 935 specials built for the John Paul father and...
Ultimate Track Test Introducing the ULTIMATE 911 – the Porsche 911 GT2 RS! When it comes to road-going sports cars,...
Sights & Sounds of the 997 GT3 Supercup Cars...
At Porsche Road & Race, we receive many books for review, and these include books on all manner of high...
Sublime Or Sacrilege? ‘If you want to build something, build it how you want it.’...
From 19-21 February 2021, Brian Redman will again host a superb gathering of top-notch high-performance sports cars and race cars...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
I first came to this race in 1971, so this would be my 50th year at the Daytona 24 hours....
Porsche 996 GT3-R – Loud, Flat Out and On Track The car at Spa drove in the “Global endurance Legends”...
