In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will...
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Boasting the largest starting grid of the weekend with 201 qualifiers, the ADAC 24h-Classic race was always going to be...
I have worked at many race tracks in the UK and Europe over the years, but the Nürburgring has always...
The biggest car race in the world on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife with 160 teams facing the challenge. The 25...
POV Drive In A Porsche 911 3.0 Carrera RSR Factory Porsche racer Patrick Long has a million-dollar historic 911 3.0...
Depending on your view, the Gods of the Green Hell either restored Porsche to its rightful place on the top...
Endurance racing should be a test of sustained strength and stamina over a prolonged period of time. It is not...
The more things change, the more they stay the same…someone famous once said. Perhaps the same can be said for...
Before we arrived in Le Mans for the start of the 2019 week of activities, we knew that the weather...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Although the factory squad was crowned the World Manufacturers champions for the first 2018/2019 Super Season, their success in the...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Sport vs. Sporty vs. Sportiest On paper, you might not be surprised to see the result in the Top Gear...
Spa woke to snow falling at 06h30 yesterday morning, and by the time I had made it to the circuit,...
Our second trip to Spa in the 2018/2019 Super Season takes place at a time when the teams, across all...
The week’s preparations started well for the factory Porsche team, as the two cars locked out the front row of...
Competing across the series, the Porsche GT Team set out on a mission to win twice in two days at...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Dirk Werner, Matt Campbell and Dennis Olsen clinched victory in the opening round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at...
Following a fifteen-year absence from the top tier of prototype racing on the world stage, Porsche officially returned to the...
For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a...
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...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
There was a double victory for Porsche at Sebring, as the #91 Porsche 911 RSR of Gianmaria Bruni/Richard Lietz won...
This weekend sees the first double-header at Sebring with the running of both round 6 of the World Endurance Championship...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
In July 2017, Porsche shocked the motorsport community when it announced the end of its top tier prototype racing program...
We met up with Patrick Pilet recently at the Carrera Cup prize giving ceremony and were able to have a...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The 2018 prize giving ceremony for the Porsche Carrera Cup France took place on Wednesday 30 January in Paris. Not...
After a 45-year hiatus, the popular Ice Race GP at Zell am See near the picturesque Austrian town of the...
In its final performance at a major endurance race, the Porsche 911 GT3 R has won its farewell race in...
Falken Motorsports starts 2019 with a new Porsche 911 GT3 R, which will be used alongside the proven BMW M6...
Falken Tyre Europe GmbH is the European subsidiary of Japanese tyre manufacturer Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. The Falken brand was...
The 2019 season opener at Daytona will certainly go down in history as memorable, but perhaps not for the reasons...
Driving the #911 Porsche 911 RSR, Nick Tandy put together a brilliant lap in qualifying at the Daytona 24 on...
Here, Pfaff Motorsports give us a brief look into the time and dedication required to prepare their Porsche 911 GT3...
Despite crewing for one of the teams at this year’s Rolex 24, our man on the ground, Martin, had some...
The 57th Rolex 24 at Daytona on the weekend of 26-27 January will kick off IMSA’s 50th anniversary season and...
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 On Track This is a 911 that wrote a big part of Porsche history....
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The world has become obsessed with anniversaries or facts that you can leverage, in order to bring your message across....
Run by Competent Motorsport, the Pirelli Trophy West USA is an amateur one-make racing series in which Porsche club racers...
Porsche scores fourth place at Macau in the 2018 FIA GT World Cup in Macau. In a fiercely contested race...
Both the factory Porsche 911 RSRs finished on the podium at the final round in 2018 of the WEC in...
There will be four Porsche 911 GT3 R on the starting line of the world’s toughest street race, the FIA...
Perhaps it was inevitable that Michael Ammermüller took the title, but there was a thrilling finale to the 2018 Porsche...
The 2018 Supercup finale in Mexico will quite literally go down to the wire! Fans in Mexico can look forward...
After racing at Spa, Zandvoort, Dijon, Magny Cours and Barcelona, the Porsche teams and drivers went to the south of...
At the halfway point in the 2018/2019 WEC Super Season, Porsche leads the field in the GT Manufacturers title by...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Without any doubt, one of the highlights of my year in motorsport in 2018 was the opportunity to pilot the...
There are a few major endurance races around the world that roll off the tongue quite easily and quickly, such...
Ultimate Track Test Road Racers. Ford GT, Porsche 911 GT2 RS, AMG GT R and Lotus Exige Cup 430 –...
There will be few who would argue that the decade of the 1960s was one of the most innovative and...
The IMSA series came once again to WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway in California for the penultimate round in the 2018...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Best On Track POV Video I’ve Ever Seen This Porsche 911 Carrera RSR being hammered on-track is the stuff of...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
During the closing stages of FP2, I was photographing at Club Corner, just as the cars entered the start/finish straight....
The summer break is over, and it is back to business for the Silverstone Round 3 of the World Endurance...
Brian Redman is about as down-to-earth as they come, which for a top-flite racing driver, is not an attribute common...
After the summer break, the WEC heads to Silverstone this coming weekend for WEC Round 3 of the 2018/2019 Super...
The IMSA race this last weekend, round 8 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, produced rather mixed results for the...
Porsche took up the battle in the 2018 Spa 24 Hours with four 911 GT3 R race cars. The Spa...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
I have always wondered, what the Goodwood FOS (Festival of Speed) was all about. Was it a race, a hill-climb,...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen are class winners again, winning the GTS class for vehicles in the 1972 to 1981...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
This coming weekend sees the running of the ninth Le Mans Classic on the famous Circuit de la Sarthe. The...
A little more than twenty four hours ago, sixty cars lined up against the pit lane wall, and without exception,...
Writer Lucian Sonea sat down at the Le Mans Test day for an interview with Porsche Junior Julien Andlauer. The...
Qualifying 1 (Q1) for the Le Mans 24 Hour went off on Wednesday night without too much fanfare or drama....
The career of Patrick Lindsey, one of the Project1 Porsche RSR drivers, will hit a high point on the weekend...
Well it’s official, pigs can fly! The #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre/Laurens Vanthoor/Dirk Werner may not have...
This weekend sees the official Le Mans Test day on Sunday 3 June for those teams participating in the 86th...
Our contributor in France, Lucian Sonea, recently conducted an interview with Mathieu Jaminet, one of Porsche’s Young Professional Drivers. You...
The evening before the opening round of the WEC season at Spa, Porsche Road & Race had the opportunity of...
THE GENESIS OF PORSCHE MOTORSPORT…watch the restoration by Rod Emory of the #46 Porsche 356 SL that won its class...
Born in Rome (you don’t get much more Italian than that!) on 30 May 1981, Gianmaria ‘Gimmi’ Bruni began his...
Perhaps the opening race of the 2018 WEC season at Spa did not end quite the way the Project 1...
The opening race of the 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup France season took place at Spa Francorchamps over the weekend of...
Porsche will be represented by a large fleet of vehicles at the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring: 43 Porsche 911...
Just before the Nürburgring 24-hour race will be green flagged on May 12, Porsche will present a dream team at...
So, what is this book, PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM, all about? Basically, renowned photographer Frank Kayser teamed up with journalist Heike Hientzsch, to...
The first race of the 2018 WEC season certainly didn’t disappoint. From the starter’s green lights, right up until the...
The first race of the season, the 2018 6 Hours of Spa, is almost upon us. Thursday saw Free Practice 1...
The Tour Auto Optic 2000 is one of the most prestigious historic racing events in the world. As early as...
Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa in the six-hour race at the famous circuit in the Ardennes...
First impressions – Can-Am 50th Anniversary is a big book! It’s not that it is so thick, but dimensionally it...
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Mobil 1 The Grid joined Porsche GT Team during the recent Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring for a behind-the-scenes...
