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Sunset for Team Perfect Circle in Kyalami 9 Hour

Kyalami 9 Hour, 23 November 2019 The ‘sunset’ for Team Perfect Circle in Kyalami 9 Hour occurred just three hours into the race when a mechanical fault ended the team’s dreams for a magical race on home soil. For the whole crew, it was a bitterly disappointing end to what...

Porsche News

Mark Webber calls time on his racing career

Mark Webber ahead of his first competitive drive in the Porsche 919 Hybrid at the 2014 Silverstone 6-Hour race on 20 April that year. The #20 Porsche would finish third in its debut race At the end of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship season Mark Webber will quit his...

Book Reviews

The Spa 24 Hours – A History

The Spa 24 Hours – A History, by David Blumlein © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale There are a few major endurance races around the world that roll off the tongue quite easily and quickly, such as Le Mans, Daytona, Sebring and of course the Spa 24 Hours. It is perhaps an...

Notable Chassis

Martini Porsche 917-042 – Le Mans record breaker

#21 Martini Porsche 917 LH (chassis #042) was driven by Gerard Larrousse and Vic Elford in the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hour race – DNF, lost engine cooling fan From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and endurance...

Motorsport & Racing

Kremer Racing mixes with the big players

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 News

Best features of 2019

Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 4 May 2019: Imagine the surprise when we arrived at the track, to be greeted by a scene of snowy white with zero degrees showing on the circuit thermometer, and then to get a further snowy blast at the start of the race. This was...

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Porsche and the US

Porsche 356 Cabriolet competing at an aerodrome race in the USA, ca. 1952/1953 America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest market, and this was important for the young and growing company. In some ways, the importance of this market even influenced the development of certain models. In this feature, Porsche...

Book Reviews

Porsche Turbo

Porsche Turbo: The Inside Story of Stuttgart’s Turbocharged Road and Race Cars – by Randy Leffingwell © Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. It may be a little after the official publication date, but I have only recently come across this book by Randy Leffingwell. As an expert and renowned author...

People & Profiles

Never a dull moment – the career of Toine Hezemans

Toine Hezemans in his Brussels home, 2015 One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father who raced Porsches in the 1950s. This family tradition continued with Toine who began racing 911s in the late ‘60s, but after his...

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Porsche at Le Mans Part IV: 1972 to 1981

#5 Porsche 908/3 – Juan Fernandez/Francesco Torredemer/Eugenio Baturone – NRF The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for two years, but the race authorities (read FIA) had had their fill of Porsche interpreting the rules their way, and...

WEC

Porsche proves that pigs can fly

Le Mans Test day grid line-up, 2 June 2018 Well it’s official, pigs can fly! The #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre/Laurens Vanthoor/Dirk Werner may not have topped the lap charts on Sunday at the Le Mans Test day, but they were just 1.3 seconds off their team...

Porsche History

Porsche’s 356 1500cc Super: The 1½-Liter Adventure

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The Porsche Transaxle Family

1976 Porsche 924 Coupé It is a fact that most of us with an interest in roadgoing or race cars, will have a favourite model that holds a special place in our memory for some reason. That reason might be something significant that happened in your life where a certain...

Events

Vintage Porsches add German colour in Wine Country

Gulf Porsche chassis 917-016 Under the welcoming embrace of sunny California skies over wine country, the Sonoma Speed Festival established a new tradition of historic racing at Sonoma Raceway. Held on the first weekend of June, the Festival sought to emphasise quality over quantity with a compelling collection of rare...

WEC

Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa

View over the Spa-Francorchamps pit complex and race track, showing approaching storm in the distance, 3 May 2017 Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa in the six-hour race at the famous circuit in the Ardennes region of Belgium on 5 May 2018. This is the first race...

Motorsport & Racing

Rolex 24 at Daytona race progress

Final session for 24 hour cars today. Here we see an expensive coat rack getting final prep With the Rolex 24 at Daytona already two-thirds run, we can bring you the latest Daytona race progress. Martin was out and about on Friday once again and reported some interesting pre-race activity...

PRR My Porsche Story

My journey to Porsche ownership

1987 Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera Sport Targa at the top of the Black Mountain Pass (A4069) in South Wales My journey (Chris Stretton) to Porsche ownership started when I was still a teenager in the 1960s. My father, Lionel Stretton, was a serious petrol-head owning many different cars and competing...

Book Reviews

Porsche Graphisme 917 – It’s My World

Porsche – Graphisme 917 by Stéphane Coradi © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale Porsche Graphisme 917: This is Stéphane Coradi’s second publication in less than a year, the man is irrepressible. His enthusiasm for the Stuttgart marque knows no bounds, and combined with a unique artistic talent, this new book is quite...

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A whale of a tale – maintaining an ‘89 911 Carrera Sport in Zimbabwe

Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Clubsport (1985) in the Museum workshop As I’ve explained on the few occasions I’ve burst into print in Porsche Road & Race, my enduring love affair with the Porsche brand was developed and nurtured from the late 1950s. My father, a dentist by profession, was very...

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VIDEO: Porsche Top 5 – Best air-cooled models

From the stunning 356 to the outstanding 917: In the latest episode of the Porsche Top 5 series Patrick Long presents 5 awesome air-cooled sports cars. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account...

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Scarlet the 1957 Porsche 356 A Speedster

1957 Porsche 356 A Speedster – looking chocolate box pretty! It was Max Hoffman, the New York-based Porsche importer, who was instrumental in getting the factory to produce a lightweight sports car for local competition in the USA. Hoffman’s clients were demanding a stripped-down factory version of the 356 to...

Motorsport & Racing

Counting the cost of the Rolex 24 at Daytona

Rolex 24 at Daytona, 26-27 January 2019: The #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki leads the GTLM class off at the start of the race The 2019 season opener at Daytona will certainly go down in history as memorable, but perhaps not for the...

Book Reviews

The Unfair Advantage

The story of Mark Donohue’s racing achievements has been told in numerous magazine articles over the years. His achievements too, in the famous #6 Sunoco Porsche 917/30 in the 1973 Can-Am series, have been similarly covered many times. But until I read The Unfair Advantage, I had little knowledge of...

Book Reviews

Kyalami – A Reflection on the History of the Original Circuit 1961-1987

Kyalami – A Reflection on the History of the Original Circuit 1961-1987, published by Aquarius Publishing CC – © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale On 4 November 1961, the Kyalami International Grand Prix Circuit opened its doors for the first event to be held on the brand-new Johannesburg circuit, namely the Rand...

Porsche News

The new 718 Cayman

Porsche 718 Cayman 2-litre (2016 MY) So you think the Cayman is just a Boxster with a roof. Well, perhaps technically it is, but the two models are distinct in their appeal and in the way they deliver their excitement. If the open-top, wind in your hair thing is for...

Book Reviews

Targa Florio – 20th Century Epic

Targa Florio – 20th Century Epic: Pino Fondi & Gianni Cancellieri © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale Mention the words ‘Targa Florio’ and any motorsport enthusiast’s thoughts will drift off to those tortuous roads, tight bends, sheer drops, villages crowded with eager spectators standing on pavements with race cars rushing by just...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche – It’s My World

Porsche – It’s My World by Stéphane Coradi © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale Porsche – It’s My World: what is this book all about? Well, for starters, you won’t learn anything about Porsche’s cars, it doesn’t contain any technical specifications, and it has no narrative. So, you may well ask, what...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche Sport 2017

Porsche Sport 2017 – Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be without. In fact, if you read this book from cover-to-cover, you would be one of the most knowledgeable people around concerning the...

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Dan Gurney 1931-2018

Solitude, 15 July1962: Dan Gurney behind the wheel of a Porsche 804 Formula 1 at the Solitude Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like Dan Gurney? He was an inspiration to many, admired by both rivals and...

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Anatole Lapine

Anatole Lapine, 1973 Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on quite a CV: Chevrolet Corvette, Opel GT, Porsche 928, Porsche 964. But there is a lot more to this designer whose career spans two continents and most...

Motorsport & Racing

Motorsport Prospects 2020

A busy grid before the start of the Le Mans 24H race on 15 June 2019 – many thousands of fans and hangers-on pack the grid After the music had died down, and the last of the revellers had left the party that had just a few hours earlier welcomed...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Hurley – From the Beginning

© Hurley – From The Beginning (cover) There are just a handful of racing drivers that can list the number and quality of achievements that Hurley Haywood can. True, there might be more than a handful in total, but within each discipline of the sport, there are just a few...

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The 1989 Daytona 24 hours – Texaco Havoline and the Cruise Brothers

Daytona 24 Hours, 4-5 February 1989: The #86 Porsche 962 of Klaus Ludwig, James Weaver and Sarel van der Merwe, makes its way along the Daytona banking I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior for Bruce Leven’s...

Motorsport & Racing

Mini-Series Porsche GT Racing Part 3

Le Mans 24 Hours, 18-19 June 2016: Frédéric Makowiecki, Jörg Bergmeister and Earl Bamber posted a DNF having completed 140 laps due to a suspension problem in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2:...

Porsche History

Porsche’s 70th anniversary – we look back 40 years to 1978

The Porsche 928 was launched in 1978 – this is a 1980 model The Porsche company, now 30 years old in 1978, had moved from being the small-scale manufacturing company to being a significant player, albeit in a niche market. The front-engined transaxle 924 model, introduced in 1976, was now...

Notable Chassis

Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT (Chassis #001)

Lined up in the pit lane before the 1994 Le Mans 24-Hours, is from the left: #36 962 Dauer Le Mans GT driven by Mauri Baldi, Yannick Dalmas and Hurley Haywood; centre is the street-legal 962 Dauer with rather appropriate Boeblingen region (Weissach) registration plate ‘P 962’; on the right...

Motorsport & Racing

Finding Jörg Bergmeister…

Le Mans 24 Hour, 15-16 June 2019: Jörg Bergmeister at scrutineering in the Place de la République, Le Mans city centre, 10 June 2019 PORSCHE ROAD & RACE caught up with the amiable Jörg Bergmeister, to ask him how he has been dealing with the Coronavirus lock-down. With all major...

Motorsport & Racing

Gianmaria Bruni talks about Porsche

WEC Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: Porsche works driver, Gianmaria Bruni, talks candidly to the author during the ‘Meet the Team’ session at the Spa 6 Hour race Born in Rome (you don’t get much more Italian than that!) on 30 May 1981, Gianmaria ‘Gimmi’ Bruni began his racing...

Le Mans 24 Hours Motorsport & Racing PRR Featured Content & Premium Editorials

The Day of Reckoning: 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours

The start of the 89th Le Mans 24 Hours gets underway in the wet, with Derek Bell leading the field in the Porsche 911 pace car. The weather had been warm all week, but on race day, the heavens opened just in time for the start, which meant the formation...

People & Profiles

Gérard Larrousse celebrates his 80th birthday

Gérard Larrousse (2017) Former Porsche works driver, Gérard Larrousse, celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday 23 May 2020. Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse was born in 1940 in Lyon, where his father ran a textile factory. “I was fascinated by motorbikes and sports cars from a young age but my...

Porsche News

Announcing the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series

Introduced in June 2017, the new 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series is the most powerful all-wheel drive turbocharged member of the 911 family. Limited to just 500 units worldwide, this model offers a power output of 607 bhp (446 kW) which represents an increase of 27 bhp over the standard...

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IMSA Laguna Seca, California 2017

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, 24 September 2017: The third placed #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet/Dirk Werner is pushed up into the technical inspection area post race IMSA visited the iconic Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the penultimate race in the 2017 championship. The Laguna Seca circuit has been...

Porsche 935

The many lives of the 935 K3/80 Red Baron

Kremer Porsche 935 K3/80 (chassis #0013) In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at the Group 5 ‘silhouette’ series created by the FIA for the 1976 season. As the records will show, the 935 was a formidable race...

Motorsport & Racing

New look WEC for 2018

There has been much chatter on the Internet and on various social media platforms recently as to what would happen to the WEC in 2018. Well, to some extent, the wait is over as the FIA/ACO issued a press release last Friday at the Mexican round of the championship in...

Motorsport & Racing

2017 Le Mans test day report

All lined up and ready for the group shot on 3 June 2017 on the occasion of the 24 Heures Du Mans Test weekend. The #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid will be driven by Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley Held on the weekend of 3-4 June 2017, the test...

Motorsport & Racing

2021 Daytona 24 hours – A Look Back

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...

Book Reviews

24 Stunden Nürburgring Nordschleife 2019

24 Stunden Nürburgring Nordschleife 2019 © Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag It must rank as one of the most awesome races in the world. This year was my first visit to the famed 24 Stunden Nürburgring Nordschleife, the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, and what a baptism it was. Having covered...

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The rise of the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo

1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 (chassis #911 460 9101) photographed at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, May 2019 The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at the time and what caught your eye. For instance, Richard...

Motorsport & Racing

Can Hypercar do the trick?

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...

WEC

Bahrain WEC finale 2017

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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1973 Daytona 24 Hour – An auspicious debut for the Porsche Carrera RSR

Daytona 24 Hours, 3-4 February 1973: The start 1973 Daytona 24 hours led by John Watson in the Mirage on pole 1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after running only a 6-hour length in 1972. Ferrari in...

Specs & Performance

Porsche 919 Hybrid (2017) – Specs & Performance

Now in its fourth year of competition, the Porsche 919 hybrid continues to be developed into a more efficient racer. Retaining its same 4-cylinder petrol-driven engine, the LM P1 regulations require that the 919 be ever-more efficient while delivering similar performance.Team Principal and acting technical director, Andreas Seidl, said, “For...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche clinches 2024 IMSA MOTUL Course de Monterey

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,...

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1983 Sebring 12 Hour – David and Goliath

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...

Model In Depth

Porsche 911 Carrera Cup (964) (1990 – 1992)

Introduced in 1989 (the year of the 911’s 25th anniversary), the 964 Carrera 4 was a significant new model for the company, but the 4-wheel drive system was deemed unsuitable for the company’s racing series. Manufactured alongside the Carrera 4 at the same time was the more traditional rear-wheel drive Carrera 2, but this model’s launch was only planned for a year later, in the hope that it would not detract from potential sales of the Carrera 4. The 1990 season was the first season that saw the 911-based model become the pillar on which the Porsche Carrera Cup series has been established.

For Sale

FOR SALE: Porsche 908 – The Endurance Specialist

1968 Porsche 908 KH (chassis #010) 3-litre Introduced in 1968, the Porsche 908 was one of the longest running prototypes in the company’s history, as it was still doing duty twenty years later in 1988. The 908 took on many different forms, Long Tail (LH), Short Tail (KH), 908/02 Spyder,...

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Porsche’s Underrated 911s: The G-H-J-K Series from 1974 to 1977

The unsung hero of the range, the standard 911, was also the mainstay of the Porsche line-up during the troubled 1970s. It wasn’t long after the 1973 oil crisis, that infamous moment when OPEC decided to push the price of oil through the roof, that sports car sales began to...

Porsche News

Roadbook – New special exhibition at the Porsche Museum

‘Roadbook. The Porsche Museum on the road around the world’ special exhibition at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart from 30 October 2016 to 23 April 2017 The Porsche Museum is a living museum, and is equally at home at its state-of-the-art headquarters in Zuffenhausen as it is anywhere in the...

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The IROC Porsches

The IROC Porsches: The International Race of Champions, Porsche’s 911 RSR and the Men Who Raced Them by Matt Stone © Motorbooks This is the story of the International Race of Champions Porsche Carrera 911 RSRs and the drivers who raced them. It’s a story that is long overdue, as...

For Sale

FOR SALE: 1970 Porsche 917/10 Prototype

1970 Porsche 917/10 prototype chassis #917/10-001 as offered for sale on 8 February 2017 Mention the name Porsche and motor racing, and minds immediately focus in on one of the famous race cars to pass out through the gates of the Stuttgart manufacturer. Depending on your age or favoured period...

Auction News

Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2017-2018 Edition

© Historica Selecta/Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2017-2018 edition How do you improve on a product that is already the ‘go-to’ publication in the industry? The answer lies in continuing the same level of quality research, listening to the players in the market (buyers, sellers and dealers), and all the while being...

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Finding the ‘Ratt’

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...

Auction News

Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2018-2019 Edition

Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2018-2019 Edition © Historica Selecta It’s a case of, more of the same for the 2018-2019 Edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook. Once again, the authors Adolfo Orsi and Raffaele Gazzi, have delivered an excellent publication providing good quality, industry-leading, analytical information on the classic...

Porsche Video

VIDEO: A Perfect Partnership – Porsche’s Nick Tandy On How Mobil 1 Powers The 919 Hybrid Evo

Mobil 1 The Grid attended the recent Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch, where 2015 Le Mans winner Nick Tandy got his hands on an enhanced version of the 919, dubbed the ‘Evo’. Olivier Champenois, LMP1 Performance Engineer at Porsche, and David Tsurusaki, Global Motorsports Technology Manager at ExxonMobil, explain...

PRR

The Spyder spins its web

Autosport 1000 km, Silverstone, 14 September 2008: In the fifth and final round of the 2008 Le Mans Series season, the #34 Porsche RS Spyder was driven by Peter Van Merksteijn and Jos Verstappen and finished first in the LMP2 class and fifth overall, ahead of a brace of LMP1...

Book Reviews

Carrera 2.7

Blue cover – Limited Edition Much has been written about the Porsche 911, in fact there are few manufacturers in the world, that could boast as having as many books written about one of their models. But as can be expected, many of these books cover selected top models, and...

Carrera Cup

Ryan Cullen rising Porsche talent

Ryan Cullen at the Mexican round of the Porsche Supercup race on 27-29 October 2017 Somerset driver Ryan Cullen finished his Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup series with two confidence-boosting performances in Mexico. The 26-year-old qualified in tenth place at the season-ending final race in Mexico City and then made his...

Book Reviews

Twice Around the Clock: The Yanks at Le Mans

Twice Around the Clock: The Yanks at Le Mans by Tim Considine © Toll Hall Sexton Books Over the years, there has been a lot written on the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race which has earned the reputation as one of the most challenging endurance races...

Porsche of the Day

Porsche of the Day: 2018 Le Mans Scrutineering Ebimotors Porsche 911 RSR

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:...

Motorsport & Racing

Spa 6 Hour race report

#1, Porsche 919 Hybrid at the 6h of Spa, 2017

#1, Porsche Team, Porsche 919 Hybrid, driven by Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer, Nick Tandy at WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2017, Spa-Francorchamps race circuit, on 06.05.2017 It was a case of ‘what might have been’ as the two LMP1 Porsche 919 Hybrids experienced frustrating delays during the Spa 6 Hour...

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Porsche 911 Turbo through the decades

1974 Porsche 911 Turbo #1 chassis no. 911 560 0042. First owned by the late Louise Piëch (older sister of Ferry Porsche), the 2.7-litre 911 Turbo prototype is now on display in the Porsche Museum Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It...

Carrera Cup

Thrilling finale to the 2018 Porsche Supercup in Mexico

Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Mexico, 27/28 October 2018: The start of Round 9 Perhaps it was inevitable that Michael Ammermüller took the title, but there was a thrilling finale to the 2018 Porsche Supercup in Mexico. Consisting of two rounds, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, the title went...

WEC

Pascal Zurlinden speaks about the 2018 Porsche 911 RSR

WEC Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: Pascal Zurlinden chats to a journalist during the ‘Meet the Team’ media session The evening before the opening round of the WEC season at Spa, Porsche Road & Race had the opportunity of chatting to Pascal Zurlinden, Director GT Factory Motorsports, about the 2018 Porsche...

Porsche 962 Porsche 956 PRR Book Reviews

Porsche 956 & 962 Owners’ Workshop Manual

Porsche 956 & 962 Owners’ Workshop Manual by Nick Garton – © Haynes Publishing It is a well-known fact that the Porsche 956 & 962 derivatives were together the most successful sports prototypes that have ever turned a wheel. So totally dominant were these cars during the Group C era...

Book Reviews

Porsche 936

There can be few people better qualified to write about a race car than those who drove that car in competition. When you add into the formula, the fact that the racing driver in question also worked in the motorsport department of the manufacturer responsible for building that car, then...

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Porsche 911 GT1 – The Grand Touring Meister

1997 Porsche 911 GT1-109 photographed in June 2016 Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998. The 911 GT1 became the Grand Touring Meister when it triumphed in the 1998 Le Mans 24 Hours, but its route to...

Book Reviews

Porsche Carrera race engine model

Porsche Carrera 4-cam 4-cylinder racing engine – © Franzis Verlag GmbH Last year we reviewed the Porsche 911 flat-six boxer engine scale model by Franzis, but this year, we have the grandfather of all Porsche racing engines…the Porsche Carrera race engine model. The Type 547 4-cam, 4-cylinder engine was the...

People & Profiles

Nick Tandy (GB)

Nick Tandy, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 5 November 1984 Where: Bedford, UK Lives: Bedford, UK Marital status: Married, 1 child Height/Weight: 1.78 m/71 kg Hobbies: Badminton, darts, golf, iRacing When Nick Tandy clinched Porsche’s 17th overall victory at the long distance classic in 2015, he fulfilled...

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Porsche at Teloché, Le Mans – Logistics Part I

Le Mans 24 Hours, 23-24 June 1951: In the foreground of the workshop at Teloché is the #46 Porsche 356 SL driven by Edmond Mouche and Auguste Veuillet, while in the background is the #47 Porsche 356 SL which was damaged in practice by Rudolph Sauerwein Porsche has been represented...

Porsche Video

VIDEO: Porsche Motorsport – The reason behind

Porsche has fought hard for their dreams over the years – just like they have done in motorsports for more than 60 years. Find out the reason behind their racing activities in this video. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started...

Motorsport & Racing

2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge – Round 2 at Laguna Seca

California 8 Hours, Laguna Seca, 30 March 2019: The #911 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R was driven by Romain Dumas, Sven Müller and Mathieu Jaminet Dirk Werner, Matt Campbell and Dennis Olsen clinched victory in the opening round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge at the twelve-hour race...

Carrera Cup

John McCullagh Column #1

John McCullagh looks forward to another race Congratulations and good luck to Porsche Road & Race on the launch of this exciting new website, celebrating something that is also very close to my heart – the powerful, stunning and exquisite Porsche marque! I’m delighted to be a columnist, and I...

Book Reviews

Ferrari 250 LM – The Remarkable History of 6313

Ferrari 250 LM – The Remarkable History of 6313 by James Page – © Porter Press International Clearly it isn’t a Porsche, but it must rank as one of the best looking sports cars of its era. The Ferrari 250 LM is this writer’s most favourite non-Porsche sports car, it...

Porsche News

WEC Opening Round at Silverstone

#2, Porsche Team, Porsche 919 Hybrid, driven by Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber, Brendon Hartley, during at FIA WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone 2017, Silverstone International Circuit, on 14.04.2017 It was a dry day at Silverstone on the first day of practice for this year’s WEC opening round at Silverstone. This,...

Porsche News

Porsche celebrates 70 years of the Porsche sports car in Berlin

Porsche 356-001 on display in Berlin 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Porsche sports car, a fact that has been well promoted and circulated this year. But Porsche grew out of a passion to create a particular kind of sports car, and that took great effort...

WEC

Porsche prepares to defend its Le Mans title

Porsche 911 RSR: Porsche GT Team (#91) – Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz and Frédéric Makowiecki; Porsche GT Team (#92) – Michael Christensen, Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor Although the factory squad was crowned the World Manufacturers champions for the first 2018/2019 Super Season, their success in the forthcoming 24-hour race...

Porsche Video

VIDEO: What’s your story?

Come behind the scenes of Luftgekühlt 6 with Jeff Zwart and uncover how each perfect moment was created (A video by Mobil 1) No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....

Porsche 718

Grossmutter 718 W-RS Spyder – one of a kind

1961 Porsche 718 W-RS Spyder ‘Grossmutter’ (chassis #047) photographed at the Porsche Museum, May 2019 The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is produced in small numbers, or even just to enhance a claim about something unusual. In...

Events

Targa Sixty Six 2022

Brian Redman standing next to Porsce on track at Targa Sixty Six

Endurance racing legend Brian Redman is once again hosting Targa Sixty Six, a vintage race car gathering he founded in 1991 where owners can “properly exercise” their sleek machinery in a controlled atmosphere. This year’s event will be held from February 11-13 at the 10-turn Palm Beach International Raceway just...

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VIDEO: ADAC Total 24 Hour Race – Second Qualifying

The biggest car race in the world on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife with 160 teams facing the challenge. The 25 kilometer long track through the Eifel forests is also known as the Green Hell. The ADAC Total 24 Hour race can be found exclusively on the channel of the ADAC...

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Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 Edition

Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 front cover – © Classic Car Auction Yearbook/ Historica Selecta The 22nd edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 (covering the 24th season of auctions), can comfortably be regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative publications of its kind available. Classic Car...

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Porsche 917: Archive and Works Catalogue

Most people, even those only vaguely interested in motor sport, will have heard about the Porsche 917. The first of Porsche’s race cars to truly dominate the world of sports car racing, the 917 project was in 1969 almost a step too far for the small Stuttgart manufacturer as it...

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Porsche 935/2.0 ‘Baby’

The 1977 #40 Martini Porsche 935/2.0 Baby (chassis #935 2 001) photographed at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany in May 2017 Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for the Porsche race department. Just to make things interesting,...

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Porsche mourns Peter W. Schutz

Peter W. Schutz, CEO of Porsche from 1981-1987 (ca.1984) Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG this week announced the death of Peter W. Schutz. The former President and CEO of Porsche AG passed away on 29 October 2017 at the age of 87. Schutz is perhaps best remembered for his...

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VIDEO: Porsche at Le Mans: The Definitive History

Porsche at Le Mans: The Definitive History - XCAR

Porsche is returning to LMP1 for the first time since 1998. We took a look back at why the German manufacturer’s return is so important. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....

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The new Porsche 718 Boxster

Porsche 718 Boxster 2-litre (UK market) 2016 model year Twenty years after the launch of the original Porsche Boxster, a new generation of Boxster was introduced in January 2016, with first deliveries in the UK scheduled for the spring of this year. Up until last year, the Boxster was powered...

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FOR SALE: Porsche 996 GT3 R

2000MY Porsche 996 GT3 R (chassis #692090) © Coys This Porsche 996 GT3 R is being offered for sale by Coys of London. When it was launched in 1998, the Porsche Type 996 represented one of the most significant changes to the 911 model range in its (then) 35-year history....

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Porsche Decades by Jay Gillotti

All images: © Dalton Watson Fine Books There are so many books that have been written on just about every Porsche model and motorsport achievement over the years, that it would be a fair to ask why we need yet another one. But therein lies the opportunity, because the subject...

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Book Review: Porsche 911 G-Model: The Book 1974-1989

Porsche 911 G-Model: The Book 1974-1989 by Andreas Gabriel, Manfred Hering & Tobias Kindermann © Berlin Motor Books Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an impressive publication it is. In line with their other excellent publications in...

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Porsche’s fabulous 968 Turbo RS

1993 Porsche 968 Turbo RS The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’ and ‘if only’ but it is also certainly a story of lost opportunities. The end of the 1992 motor sport season saw the curtain fall...

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