Detailing a 997.2 Turbo S – Paint Correction, Wheels Off + Modesta Coatings We all know how obsessed we are about our Porsches. For those of us who spend hours detailing our prized possessions, this video is going to be totally relatable. Over a four day period, the flat white...
Porsche 997 Carrera gets THE WORKS! Paint Correction, Ceramic Coating, PPF I have a confession to make. I like to watch people detail cars on youtube. I can spend hours watching them take filthy cars and making them look new again. The before and after is what does it for...
Porsche’s Exclusive Manufaktur division Works its Magic on This One-Off Speedster Check out this recent creation of this 911 Speedster, a unique car inspired by the Porsche family itself and brought from dream to reality by the experts at Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur. While the Porsche company cars were painted in shades...
Le Mans Classic, 6 July 2018: #79 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS driven by Boden/Lins Those with sharp eyes may have picked up from our Calendar that the Le Mans Classic has been postponed yet again, until July 2022. We at Porsche Road & Race are as disappointed as the rest...
Silverstone, FIA GT Championship, 15 May 2005: The #66 GruppeM Racing Porsche 996 GT3 RSR was driven by Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller won the GT2 class of the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone on 15 May 2005 driving the #66 GruppeM Racing Porsche 996 GT3...
Snow greeted the early birds on Sunday morning at the Goodwood 76th Members’ Meeting – this is David Clark’s Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, March 2018 There was talk of snow over the weekend of 15-17 March 2018 in the east of England, but either very few gave the warning much...
Geneva Motor Show, 6-7 March 2007: New Porsche 911 GT3 RS on display (Type 997 Gen.1) Snapped at the Geneva Motor Show held from 6-7 March 2007, was this new (Type 997) 911 GT3 RS, resplendent in striking Orange. While particularly well suited for track use, the car also meets...
This shot captures the striking Martini colours and livery on this Porsche so well Feel like having a Martini, we have four for you…stirred not shaken!! Up first is the 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1, a 500 hp, 300 km/h rocket. This car spearheaded Porsche’s turbo era, being...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 15-16 June 2019: The #91 Porsche 911 RSR was driven by Gianmaria Bruni (Italy), Richard Lietz (Austria) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) – they finished second in the GTE Pro class. Here is the #91 Porsche during practice on the Thursday This weekend is just one month short...
Picture perfect – 2-litre Porsche 911 (1966). Permission to shoot the car outside the church at St. George’s Square was arranged with the Town Council of Stamford Designing and developing a new model to replace an already popular and successful one, is for any manufacturer, a difficult and stressful procedure,...
Porsche 911 Carrera 4 – Prora, Rügen, north-eastern Germany, August 2016. One of the completed buildings is to the right, as you look down the long straight road running behind the Prora complex In 2016, we spent a week on the island of Rügen, Germany’s largest island situated on the...
Imagine our surprise when this #4 Motorbase Performance Porsche GT3 Cup, driven by Steve Parish in the Carrera Cup at Thruxton on 1st May 2011, came around for the penultimate lap onto the start/finish straight ‘pushing’ this Dunlop advertising board. Thruxton circuit is the UK’s fastest race circuit, and the...
A 1997 Porsche Boxster (left) and a 1958 Porsche 356 A Speedster (right) The day dawned bright and clear with little sign of any clouds, a typical Highveld winter’s day. After an early morning meeting for coffee, the small group consisting of two owner/drivers, a journalist (myself), a photographer and...
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....
Hans-Joachim Stuck was observed trying to squeeze his lanky frame into the seat of the 935/78 Moby Dick at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed. But even with the help of one of the car’s crew, there was just no way he could shoehorn those long legs into the cabin,...
Hans-Joachim Stuck was observed trying to squeeze his lanky frame into the seat of the 935/78 Moby Dick at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed. But even with the help of one of the car’s crew, there was just no way he could shoehorn those long legs into the cabin,...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 12-13 June 2010 On the 2010 Le Mans starting grid before the race was the (foreground) #76 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR driven by the familiar trio of Raymond Narac/Patrick Pilet/Patrick Long. The #76 car qualified in sixth place in class and 41st overall...
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:...
Porsche Carrera RS 2.7 in the beautiful Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK The Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in October 1972. With the decade of the 1970s came a fresh, loud and colourful outlook on life and even sports cars were...
Porsche Club GB Festival, Eynsham Hall, 2006: On display at the PCGB annual festival was this pre-production Porsche 997 GT3 Gen. 1 – looking resplendent in front of the fountain and with a superb backdrop of Eynsham Hall itself. On the licence plate – BB EM 812 – “BB” refers...
It is forty years since the introduction of Porsche’s first RS, the mighty Carrera RS 2.7, back in 1973. For Porsche, the letters RS, which stand for Rennsport, inspire images of sporting achievement and excellence earned the hard way through countless racing victories. At the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1993,...
Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone, 14 September 2008: The #31 Team Essex Porsche RS Spyder Evo 3.4-litre V8, driven by the highly-experienced pairing of Casper Elgaard/John Nielsen, overcame a couple of challenges in the race. Here the car comes crawling through the Vale complex with its front left wheel missing....
Running in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship, the #53 Renauer Motorsport Team Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (Type 996, 3.6-litre) was driven by the Austrian pairing of Manfred Jurasz and Hans Knauss together with the Swiss driver Theo Heutschi. This was the opening round of the 2006 season...
