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The unsung hero of the range, the standard 911, was also the mainstay of the Porsche line-up during the troubled...
Written by Glen Smale. Images by: Glen Smale & Pocher In a tribute to Porsche’s unrivalled success at Le Mans, Pocher,...
Words by: Glen Smale Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Interserie championship was established in 1970...
Words by: Glen Smale Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG Ferdinand Piëch knew it, the FIA/CSI knew...
Before diving into the nitty gritty of this fabulous new publication, you may want to read the book review of...
Porsche 917 Factory Racing In 1969 Porsche’s new 917 was never intended to be ready for the two Florida races,...
Without question, Ferdinand Piëch’s crowning glory came with the arrival of the Porsche 917 in 1969. This race car brought...
Words by: Glen Smale. Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG International Hill Climbing The FIA European Hill...
Story by Glen Smale. All images courtesy of © Porter Press Int. Porsche’s Type 956, 962 and 962C is the world’s...
Story by Glen Smale. All images © as stated in the book & on the DVD Brilliant…just brilliant!! I don’t...
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Words by Glen Smale. Images by Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG With the introduction of the Porsche 911...
Background While Porsche has long since been revered as a European sports car company, “Supercar” has not been part of...
Words by: Glen Smale Images by: Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Porsche 956, and its later sibling the 962, became...
Words by: Glen Smale Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Dependable 908 As previously noted, thanks...
Images by: Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG Foreword This article is part of our series featuring the historical...
All images: © Dalton Watson Fine Books There are so many books that have been written on just about every...
Round four at WeatherTech Raceway, Laguna Seca, brought adrenalin levels back up to “red line” for Porsche enthusiasts lucky enough...
The Porsche 907 has probably received the least amount of coverage of all Porsche’s 1960s ‘plastic prototypes’. But this lack...
By the time the mid-1960s arrived, Ferdinand Piëch had got his hooks well and truly into Porsche’s motorsport programme. With...
Setting the Scene The 1960s represented for Porsche, the busiest decade in the company’s history to date, with ten new...
They say that the cream always rises to the top, an expression used to illustrate that if something is really...
For some, motor racing is an inevitability. It is a passion that they are born with and it is just...
All Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG In the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hour race, the...
For better, and sometimes for worse, corporate culture and business strategy have historically played a significant role in motorsport. Over...
First air-cooled adventure Ryan Polson’s first word was car. Not Mama or Dada. Car. It seems that Ryan’s trajectory was...
With Stuttgart neighbor Mercedes on the rampage, Porsche had trouble on the track in the late 1990s GT1 era. But...
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In complete honesty, I am guilty of amassing far too many books and magazine collections on European sportscars, especially Porsche....
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Let’s talk about Porsche GT cars—the modern production cars in particular. On the 911 spectrum, this would encompass any of...
Written by: Glen Smale Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG...
Written by: Glen Smale Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG...
Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Porsche 917 was the culmination of a line of...
The Porsche 962, following in the footsteps of the already massively successful 956, was introduced in 1984 in response to...
Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Porsche 908 is widely regarded as one of the...
Round 2 Held for a second year at historic Weathertech Raceway, Laguna Seca, the 2022 Velocity Invitational is poised to...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2022 presented yet another year of stellar lineups for the 200,000 attendees. Attracting a pedigree...
Race day dawned with a blanket of morning mist covering the area. It was a crisp morning as I departed...
Without doubt, this race is recognised as the most important, the most charged and the one that everyone who is...
Words by Glen Smale / Images by Glen Smale & Corporate Archives Porsche AG The motorsport world woke up on...
Porsche is well known for its limited production runs of both its road cars and race cars. This makes those...
I have been an avid follower of the Mille Miglia for over a decade, with a bucket list dream to...
Endurance racing legend Brian Redman is once again hosting Targa Sixty Six, a vintage race car gathering he founded in...
Having spent its early days as a test and development hack, this 911 Carrera RSR rose to the occasion when pressed into...
The weather had been warm all week, but on race day, the heavens opened just in time for the start,...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Round 1 of the 9th season of the WEC was contested at the legendary Spa circuit on 1 May 2021....
This is the story of the International Race of Champions Porsche Carrera 911 RSRs and the drivers who raced them....
There was hardly a Porsche enthusiast who wasn’t deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Porsche’s favourite...
On 15 June 1969, Jacky Ickx crossed the finish line in the 37th Le Mans 24 Hours a matter of...
Those with sharp eyes may have picked up from our Calendar that the Le Mans Classic has been postponed yet...
The interesting thing about racing is that nothing is certain. You can prepare yourself and the car perfectly, but then...
How our man, Richard Wiley, came to be the custodian of two Porsche 911s over a period of nearly nine...
Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller won the GT2 class of the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone on 15 May 2005 driving...
This feature, the fourth in our mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 3: 2013-2016) and highlights...
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news this week of the passing of not one, but...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) revealed just yesterday, Tuesday 9 March 2021, the 62-strong entry list for this year’s Le...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the passing of one of Porsche’s stalwarts, Rolf Sprenger,...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
I have been looking forward to seeing this new book from Dalton Watson, covering the very colourful life and times...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
There was talk of snow over the weekend of 15-17 March 2018 in the east of England, but either very...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
I first came to this race in 1971, so this would be my 50th year at the Daytona 24 hours....
Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
From 19-21 February 2021, Brian Redman will again host a superb gathering of top-notch high-performance sports cars and race cars...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Snapped at the Geneva Motor Show held from 6-7 March 2007, was this new (Type 997) 911 GT3 RS, resplendent...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Whether you love it or hate it, the 914 served as a very important family member in the Porsche model...
Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It covers the seven generations of...
At Porsche Road & Race, we receive many books for review, and these include books on all manner of high...
The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the earliest models to...
A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race and since the 1970s ‘Carrera’ has been a model name...
JLP-4 was the final race car in the line of Porsche 935 specials built for the John Paul father and...
Clearly it isn’t a Porsche, but it must rank as one of the best looking sports cars of its era....
Consider what it would be like to be given the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes, into Porsche’s inner design...
It all started back in early March of 2020. I had a trip planned to visit the Porsche Museum in...
Feel like having a Martini, we have four for you…stirred not shaken!! Up first is the 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera...
Most motorsport enthusiasts will have attended historic races, events such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed or Revival, or similar...
The phone rang, it was my old friend Carlos de Quesada. “I’ve just bought a 935 to restore,” he told...
Under normal circumstances, this year’s Rennsport Collective would have taken place at the beginning of August, when the weather was...
Regular Goodwood attendees would have been starved of all the glorious action in 2020 that this venue has to offer,...
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news of André’s passing this last weekend. André was an...
This is Stéphane Coradi’s third publication, and the third of his books that I am reviewing. It must be said...
There is a model in Porsche’s family line-up that receives little coverage and, as a result, it does not enjoy...
It is with great sadness that the motorsport world learned last week that Zef Eisenberg, aged just 47 years, was...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record....
Under unseasonably hot conditions for late September, the 88th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is finally a reality....
More than 4.75 million visitors have passed through the doors of Porsche’s Museum in Stuttgart since the company officially opened...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Have you ever been to the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen? If not, you would do well to plan a visit...
Over the years, there has been a lot written on the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race...
