1983 Porsche 956 chassis #110 – Matthew Howell © 2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s The 1983 Group C World Endurance Championship was arguably one of the most exciting and competitive racing seasons in years. So, why was 1983 a good year in Group C? Well, this was the first year...
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...
911 LoveRS: by Jürgen Lewandowski and Bart Lenaerts – © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale If the title, 911 LoveRS, leaves you with a slight question mark in your mind, turn the pages, and you will quickly get a feel for what the book is all about. 911 LoveRS by Jürgen Lewandowski...
WEC Silverstone 6 Hour, 19 August 2018: Crowds lining the spectator balcony of The Wing look down at the packed grid prior to the start of the race During the closing stages of FP2, I was photographing at Club Corner, just as the cars entered the start/finish straight. The #91...
WEC Silverstone 6 Hours, 18-19 August 2018: #91 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Richard Lietz/Gianmaria Bruni, and #92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre, in the pit lane before Free Practice 2 The summer break is over, and it is back to business for the Silverstone Round 3...
Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks © EVRO Publishing Brian Redman is about as down-to-earth as they come, which for a top-flite racing driver, is not an attribute common to all who ply their trade in this field. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Brian on twelve occasions...
Le Mans 24 Hour, 16-17 June 2018: The #92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor, finished first in the LMGTE Pro class After the summer break, the WEC heads to Silverstone this coming weekend for WEC Round 3 of the 2018/2019 Super Season. Having...
Group shot of (from L-R): Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar rally car; 959 road car; 961 race car (1986) The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961 showed that it had the stamina to go the distance in endurance racing...
Porsche 911 Sport Classic arrives at Salon Privé 2017 (Courtesy of Salon Privé) The 2018 Concours Masters at Salon Privé on Saturday, 1 September will celebrate 70 years of Porsche with a spectacular timeline of models. The Stuttgart manufacturer has achieved much within the past seven decades, and as a...
IMSA Road America, 5 August 2018: A victorious Wright Motorsports after the race The IMSA race this last weekend, round 8 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, produced rather mixed results for the Porsches. While honours deservedly went to the #58 Wright Motorsport team of Patrick Long/Christina Nielsen in the...
Porsche 356 No.1 Roadster, 1948 Born on 8 June 1948, the Porsche 356 No.1 was presented to the world, immediately setting standards by which the famous Stuttgart marque is still known today. Created around the philosophy of lightweight and nimble, the 356 quickly made a name for itself as a...
24 Hours of Spa, 28-29 July 2018: Pre-race starting grid Porsche took up the battle in the 2018 Spa 24 Hours with four 911 GT3 R race cars. The Spa 24 Hours is regarded as one of Europe’s major long-distance classics alongside the 24-hour races of Le Mans and the...
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 Spyders 1956-1964: Type 550A, RSK and 718 With just 125 pages in total, this book is not a detailed narrative description of the Porsche Spyders between 1956-1964. But what it is, is a useful record of the Type 550A, RSK and 718 models, richly supported with period photography....
Ian Fraser-Jones – ‘Out’ after a one mile push, the car having stopped due to a gearbox failure, the car’s only mechanical failure – Angola 1959 Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve the performance and reliability...
A great many of Derek Bell’s racing achievements were achieved while behind the wheel of a Porsche racing car and for this reason, it was perhaps inevitable that Derek Bell – All my Porsche races, would one day be committed to print, highlighting his extraordinarily successful career. Contrary to what...
Le Mans Classic, 6-8 July 2018: Grid 6 – The #67 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 (1975) driven by Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen, won the GTS class and finished a fine eighth overall in Grid 6 Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen are class winners again, winning the GTS class...
12 Hours of Sebring, 18 March 1978: The #9 Dick Barbour Racing Porsche 935 driven by Brian Redman, Charles Mendez and Bob Garretson In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some of the races, mainly the ones that...
Le Mans Classic, 6-8 July 2018: Grid 6 – The #10 Porsche 935 K3 (1979) was driven by Nicolas D’Ieteren/P. Lalmand and finished fifth overall in class It is unique in the motor racing world, and in historic racing circles, nothing comes close to the quality and quantity of machinery...
Porsche 356 Carrera GTL Abarth on 05/07/2018 at the Le Mans Classic, 2018 Although the temperatures have hovered around the 30° C mark each day of the event, it feels a lot warmer as a sunny 2018 Le Mans Classic got underway. As the clock ticked past noon on Friday,...
Exciting starting grid at the Le Mans Legends 2007 This coming weekend sees the running of the ninth Le Mans Classic on the famous Circuit de la Sarthe. The event, created by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Peter Auto almost two decades ago, has become the jewel in the...
1987 model 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport Coupé The 911 Carrera Club Sport was Porsche’s attempt at rolling back the years and once again, stoking the fires of high performance, lightweight motoring. Porsche Road & Race pulls back the covers to reveal the origins of the 911 Carrera CS. Originally...
Porsche 930 to 935: The Turbo Porsches – by John Starkey © Veloce Publishing Ltd Much has been written about Porsche’s racing exploits over the years, but there is perhaps one model that has served, more than any other, as the pillar of the company’s achievements. Prototypes have come and...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 16/17 June 2018: The podium for the GTE Pro class – (centre) 1st #92 Porsche GT Team (Christensen/Estre/Vanthoor); (left) 2nd #91 Porsche GT Team (Lietz/Bruni/Makowiecki); (right) 3rd #68 Ford Chip Ganassi USA (Hand/Bourdais/Mueller) A little more than twenty four hours ago, sixty cars lined up against...
Porsche Junior driver, Julien Andlauer, has made his mark in the Porsche Carrera Cup France series where he drives the #555 Martinet By Alméras. © Alexis Goure (2017) Writer Lucian Sonea sat down at the Le Mans Test day for an interview with Porsche Junior Julien Andlauer. The response from...
The Porsche #LeMans24 Class of 2018, on 12/06/2018 at the 24H of Le Mans, 2018 Qualifying 1 (Q1) for the Le Mans 24 Hour went off on Wednesday night without too much fanfare or drama. Before that Free Practice 1 (FP1) in the afternoon offered the teams the opportunity to...
Mobil 1 The Grid recently enjoyed a tour of the Porsche Experience Center in Carson, California, which serves as the hub for the manufacturer’s US sportscar effort. Porsche factory driver Patrick Long and Denmark’s Christina Nielsen were the expert guides. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to...
#56, Team Project 1, Porsche 911 RSR, LMGTE Am, driven by: Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Lindsey, Egidio Perfetti on 11/06/2018 at the 24H of Le Mans, 2018 The career of Patrick Lindsey, one of the Project1 Porsche RSR drivers, will hit a high point on the weekend of 16/17 June 2018...
Speaking to Mobil 1 The Grid, Laurens Vanthoor reflected on his journey so far and his recent success with the German manufacturer. 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 935-78 Moby Dick (chassis 935/78.006 ), photographed at the Porsche Warehouse in May 2017 Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche, Norbert Singer pushed the rules to the limit, and gave us the Porsche 935/78 Moby...
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,...
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...
WEC Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: #92 Porsche 911 RSR (LMGTE Pro) driven by Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre – this car finished second in class at Spa This weekend sees the official Le Mans Test day on Sunday 3 June for those teams participating in the 86th running...
Dubai 24 Hours, 11/13 January 2018: The #12 Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Lars Kern, Sven Müller, Otto Klohs and Mathieu Jaminet finished second in the A6-PRO class Our contributor in France, Lucian Sonea, recently conducted an interview with Mathieu Jaminet, one of Porsche’s Young Professional Drivers....
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...
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...
© 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...
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...
Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: #56 Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR (LMGTE Am) driven by Jörg Bergmeister, Patrick Lindsey and Egidio Perfetti Perhaps the opening race of the 2018 WEC season at Spa did not end quite the way the Project 1 team had hoped, but they came...
Nürburgring 24 Hours, 12/13 May 2018: (left) #911 Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Kévin Estre, Romain Dumas, Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber; (right) #912 Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Richard Lietz, Patrick Pilet, Frédéric Makowiecki and Nick Tandy – in the pits during practice Porsche will...
(from L-R): 1982 Porsche 956 C and 2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo Just before the Nürburgring 24-hour race will be green flagged on May 12, Porsche will present a dream team at the Nürburgring Nordschleife for the benefit of the expected 200,000 spectators. There, Timo Bernhard and Hans-Joachim Stuck will...
PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM: Porsche at the top 24-hour races – Nürburgring/Le Mans/Daytona © Delius Klasing & Co. KG Bielefeld So, what is this book, PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM, all about? Basically, renowned photographer Frank Kayser teamed up with journalist Heike Hientzsch, to capture the pain and the glory experienced by the Porsche crew and team...
WEC Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: The calm before the storm – conditions were perfect for the opening race of the 2018 WEC season The first race of the 2018 WEC season certainly didn’t disappoint. From the starter’s green lights, right up until the chequered flag, the excitement hit...
WEC Spa 6 Hours, 4 May 2018: #86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE Am driven by: Michael Wainwright, Ben Barker and Alexander Davison The first race of the season, the 2018 6 Hours of Spa, is almost upon us. Thursday saw Free Practice 1 and 2 (FP1 and FP2) and...
This group photo shows the vast range and quality of the cars entered in the 2018 edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2000 The Tour Auto Optic 2000 is one of the most prestigious historic racing events in the world. As early as 1899, l’Automobile Club de France organised its...
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...
1974 Porsche 911 Turbo #1 chassis no. 911 560 0042. First owned by the late Louise Piëch (older sister of Ferry Porsche), the car is now on display in the Porsche Museum In 1973, the Porsche 911, by now a decade old, was ready for a make-over. The 3-litre engine...
Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out with North America’s Greatest Race Series 1966-74 © Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc First impressions – Can-Am 50th Anniversary is a big book! It’s not that it is so thick, but dimensionally it is large in length and breadth, so you had best find yourself...
Nürburgring-Nordschleife, 16 April 2018: Porsche works driver, Kevin Estre, sets a new lap record for a roadgoing sports car of 6:56.4 minutes behind the wheel of the new 911 GT3 RS On 16 April, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS set another benchmark for road-approved sports cars at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit...
Type 964 family line-up in 1990 showing the Carrera 4 range: (from front to back) Cabriolet, Targa and Coupé From a technical perspective, the 911 Carrera Type 964 represented one of the most significant steps forward for Porsche, for many years. The new Type 964 looked like a 911 that...
Hobbo – Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs © EVRO Publishing Most people will enjoy a 30-40 year working life, and then go on to retirement. Others take a different route, and add a second string to their bow, extending their working life and adding a lot...
Long Beach, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, 14 April 2018: #912 Porsche 911 RSR of Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber bounces over the kerbs during the race The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down the order in the...
A busy GK Lindsay workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, ca.1958 Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve the performance and reliability of its road and race cars. Here we look into the first part of a two-part...
Mobil 1 The Grid joined Porsche GT Team during the recent Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring for a behind-the-scenes look at how the team goes racing. Hear from Team Manager Morgan Brady, Lead Mechanic Phil Reinhard and drivers Gianmaria Bruni, Laurens Vanthoor, Earl Bamber, Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet and...
Spa-Francorchamps, 9 April 2018: Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, Porsche LMP Team In the year following a third consecutive WEC title, Porsche is taking its World Championship winning race car around the world on a ‘goodbye tour’. The Stuttgart company is well aware that a little bit of good PR never...
Paul Ricard, FIA/WEC Prologue, 6/7 April 2018: #91 Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE Pro driven by Richard Lietz/Gianmaria Bruni (left), #92 driven by Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre (right) Activities have concluded for Porsche at the 2018 WEC Prologue, and by all accounts, it went very smoothly. Run over two days in the...
12 Hours of Sebring, 17 March 2018: The #912 Porsche 911 RSR of Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Gianmaria Bruni during the race Changes to the Sebring 2019 schedule were announced during the week which will benefit all endurance racing fans. Following a recent meeting between the FIA World Endurance...
The front door of Autobau, which is built inside a turn of the 20th century alcohol storage facility There is a collection of cars that every racing and car enthusiast should see. It is at the Autobau, located in Romanshorn, Switzerland. On the southern shore of Lake Constance, the Autobau...
Luftgekühlt 4, Port of Los Angeles, 7 May 2017 This year’s venue for the Luftgekühlt 5 gathering will be the recently opened Ganahl Lumber Company South Bay at 2600 Del Amo Blvd in Torrance, CA. Luft 5 will be taking place on Sunday 22 April 2018 from 09h00-15h00. Luftgekühlt 4,...
Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR has been given a special jubilee design Project 1 may be a new team on the block in WEC, but this year, the team celebrates its 25th anniversary in motorsport. This season is certainly its biggest commitment to date as 2018 will see the team...
Rallye Paris-Dakar 1984: Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 4×4 (Type 953) – driven by (from L-R) #175 Jacky Ickx, #176 René Metge, #177 Roland Kussmaul For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever. He left Porsche officially at the...
000 Magazine (issue #002): dedicated to in-depth Porsche topics, from 1948 until today So, you think that $250 is a lot of money for an annual subscription for just four issues of a magazine. On the face of it you could be right, but then you would be comparing 000...
Goodwood 76th Members’ Meeting, 17/18 March 2018: #58 Porsche 935 K3 (1980) driven by Urs Beck in the Group 5 ‘Special Production’ event over the weekend I know that motor racing circuits around the UK are renowned for being cold places, and that’s because many of them were built around...
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...
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...
12 Hours of Sebring, 17 March 2018: In the paddock ahead of practice, the #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki Porsche scored just a single win in the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship about three-quarters into the season, but now the Porsche GTLM team have...
Porsche 935/78 “Moby Dick” Coupé, photographed at the Porsche Warehouse in May 2017 Set for this weekend, 17-18 March, the 76th Members’ Meeting at the Goodwood Motor Circuit is bound to be an absolute humdinger. If you are a Porsche enthusiast, then I hope that you have your ticket safely...
Sebring 12 Hours, 23 March 1968: #49 Porsche 907 KH driven by Jo Siffert (left) and Hans Herrmann, with Fritz Spingler (with hat behind car). Siffert and Herrmann were the winners in the #49 Porsche The 12 Hours of Sebring, the toughest and oldest sports car race in the USA,...
Le Mans 24 Hour, 10/11 June 1978: The Porsche 935/78 ‘Moby Dick’ pulls away at the start of the race – this car was third fastest in qualifying Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s at the...
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...
Le Mans: The Official History Of The World’s Greatest Motor Race 1980–89 This edition, spanning 1980-1989, covers one of the most exciting post war periods in motorsport. The 1960s and 1970s were of course both decades that were every bit as exciting, but the 1980s perhaps represents the final decade...
Weissach – Porsche Werk 8 – on 9 June 2016 By the late 1950s, the German Wirtschaftswunder was well underway and as the economy grew, so traffic density increased. This was particularly noticeable around Stuttgart often making testing on local Autobahnen inconvenient and it caused Ferry to think about creating...
Type 964 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 retained much of its original 1963 styling (1989MY) Last month we looked at some of Porsche’s milestones around the time of the company’s 50th anniversary in 1998. This month we track back a further ten years to 1988, and we look back 30 years...
Porsche 959 Coupé (only 292 models produced in 1988 in order to obtain Group B racing homologation), 6-cylinder boxer turbo, 2849cc, 450bhp Open to visitors from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th February, the 2018 edition of Rétromobile held in Paris at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Park has been a...
Hans Herrmann at the Retro Classics in Stuttgart, Germany 2010 Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his 90th birthday this year on February 23. The endurance and Monoposto specialist, born in Stuttgart in 1928, is regarded as...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 13 June 2015: The start of the race sees the lead LMP1 cars shooting ahead of the rest of the field, which is still making its way through the Ford Chicane. The starter can be seen waving the flag at the end of the Rolex platform...
2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS With a clear focus on motorsport, the Porsche Motorsport department will present its latest project at the Geneva Motor Show, the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Following in the revered tradition of RS derivatives of the 911 coupe, the new model combines a race car...
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2008: Rothmans works Porsche 956 008, Kremer Racing Leyton House Porsche 962 CK6, Joest Racing Porsche 962 011 in the paddock before their run up the Hill The 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed will be particularly notable this year, as the nation’s favourite motoring event celebrates...
1972 Porsche 911 2.4 S, Inchydoney Hotel, West Cork, Ireland – we were peppered with heavy rain showers on the day of the photo shoot. You could almost draw a line from the clouds above past the back of the car, and see that we were getting drenched, but just...
1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo: Courtesy of Gooding & Company – ©Mathieu Heurtault Three historic turbocharged competition Porsches are to be presented at Gooding’s Amelia Island auction on 9 March 2018. The three race cars represent three important steps in Porsche’s history of turbocharged race car development. These are: Year...
#91 and #92 Porsche 911 RSR with drivers and team attend scrutineering for the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Place de la République on 12 June 2017 Porsche aims to contest the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hour race with four works cars in the GTE Pro class, as...
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...
Born: 28 October 1988 Where: Lyon, France Lives: Höchst, Austria Marital Status: Single Height/Weight: 1.84 m/72 kg Hobbies: Badminton, skiing, all types of sport Kévin Estre heads into his first season as a Porsche works driver and thus has come full circle. The Frenchman honed his craft as a race...
Neel Jani, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H 2016 Born: 8th December 1983 Where: Rorschach, Switzerland Lives: Port, Switzerland Height/weight: 1.72 m/62 kg Marital status: Married to Lauren Hobbies: Sports, cross-country skiing, tennis, cycling The Swiss driver with Indian roots lives up to the image of what a race car...
Richard Lietz, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 17 December 1983 Where: Waidhofen, Austria Lives: Ybbsitz, Austria Marital status: Single Height/Weight: 1.83 m/73 kg Hobbies: Rallying, jogging, climbing, cycling Richard Lietz, a man for all seasons, and for all racing series. The Austrian celebrated the greatest success of...
Brendon Hartley, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 10th November 1989 Where: Palmerston North, New Zealand Lives: Monaco Height/weight: 1.84 m/65 kg Hobbies: Playing the guitar, fitness, poker, squash, tennis, mountain biking When he first turned up in the Formula 1 paddock back in 2008, he looked more...
Timo Bernhard, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 24 February 1981 Where: Homburg/Saar (Germany) Lives: Bruchmühlbach-Miesau (Germany) Marital status: Married to Katharina, sons Paul and Ben Height/Weight: 1.74 m/60 kg Hobbies: Fitness, music, rally, running He has won all major sports car endurance races: Daytona, Sebring, and the...
Jörg Bergmeister, Porsche works driver, 2016 Le Mans 24H Born: 13 February 1976 Where: Leverkusen, Germany Lives: Langenfeld, Germany Marital status: Single, 1 child Height/Weight: 1.94 m/80 kg Hobbies: Snowboarding Of all the successes that Jörg Bergmeister has celebrated with Porsche, he is particularly proud of his victories at the...
Romain Dumas, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 14th December 1977 Where: Alès, France Lives: Basel, Switzerland Marital Status: Partner Elysia, one son (Gabin) Height/Weight: 1.74 m/62 kg Hobbies: Rallying, jet-ski, jogging, squash A full season in the FIA World Endurance Championship as a Porsche works driver, including...
Michael Christensen, Porsche works driver, Le Mans 24H, 2016 Born: 28 August 1990 Where: Greve, Denmark Lives: Vienna, Austria Marital status: Single Height/Weight: 1.81 m/75 kg Hobbies: Football, fitness, Play Station In the autumn of 2011, a dream came true for Michael Christensen. The Dane pitted himself against many other...
Born: 9 July 1990, Wanganui, New Zealand Lives: Kuala Lumpur (MAL) Marital status: Single Height/Weight: 1.83m/74kg Hobbies: Fitness, surfing, skiing Earl Bamber managed to scale the summit of long distance racing in record time. After winning the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship, one of the most extensive and sustained youth...
#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...
Porsche Victory in Le Mans 2017 The latest edition of the Porsche Victory in Le Mans series is out and it is as good, if not better, than any of the other editions that have gone before it. The publishing house, Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag, has a long history in...
Dawn parade – photographers and enthusiastic race goers break the skyline at the Mount Panorama circuit ahead of the Bathurst 12 Hour race The Bathurst 12 Hour race serves as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. First held in 1991, the Bathurst 12 Hour initially catered for production-based...
Rolex 24 at Daytona, 27/28 January 2018: Martin Raffauf’s 2018 Daytona Notebook takes a comprehensive look at the whole Daytona race week. Martin has been going to Daytona in one form or another for 47 years, so one could say he is something of an expert on the race. Editor...
The fabulous story of this car’s life begins in 1970 with the construction of chassis #021, one of the first batch of twenty-five 917s to be built. In April 1970, the newly completed chassis #917-021 was sold to the Finnish AAW team, finished in the red and yellow colours of...
Rolex 24 at Daytona, 27/28 January 2018: #912 Porsche 911 RSR, drivers: Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Gianmaria Bruni Disappointing is the only way that you can describe the result for Porsche at Daytona this last weekend. Porsche and Ferrari are the only two manufacturers who can claim an unbroken...
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...
WHEN the F.I.A. changed the regulations in the middle of last year governing sports prototype racing, it didn’t give a fair chance to the two long-distance races early in the year at Daytona and Sebring to obtain a very good entry. With the demise of the giants the Porsche team...
This is the start/finish line and main grandstand Thursday’s qualifying at Daytona was a tense affair, with the top spot being snatched in the prototype and GTLM classes by the smallest of margins, in the closing stages of the session. Martin has sent a batch of interesting shots and we...





































































































