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Now in its 20th year, RM’s 2018 Amelia Island sale is once again set to take place in March 2018....
Round 1 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the Daytona International Speedway will be with us this weekend. It has been...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
This year, 2018, Porsche will celebrate its 70th anniversary. Although the official date for the registration of the first car, 356-001,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
A large package landed on my desk just before Christmas, and being weightier than normal my interest was aroused, so...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
If your favourite sports car comes from the Porsche stable, then you will want to know about this product –...
The Le Mans winner’s trophy for the 24 Hours of Le Mans has found a new home at the Porsche...
With a company like Porsche developing powerful and efficient race engines, it was inevitable that other body and chassis builders...
After three years of restoration, the Porsche Museum will finally present one of the newest additions to its collection –...
Porsche paid tribute to the worldwide achievements of teams and drivers during the 2017 season at its ‘Night of Champions’...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Simply entitled Porsche Carrera, this monumental work by Rolf Sprenger and Steve Heinrichs is nothing short of sensational. The two...
The 22nd edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 (covering the 24th season of auctions), can comfortably be regarded...
The 22nd edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 (covering the 24th season of auctions), can comfortably be regarded...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Somerset driver Ryan Cullen finished his Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup series with two confidence-boosting performances in Mexico. The 26-year-old qualified...
The story of Mark Donohue’s racing achievements has been told in numerous magazine articles over the years. His achievements too,...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The curtain came down on the 2017 WEC after the Bahrain 6 Hour race this last weekend, and although the...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
A rare and iconic ex-Le Mans Porsche 550A Spyder will come under the hammer at Bonhams’ Scottsdale sale on 19...
There can be few people better qualified to write about a race car than those who drove that car in...
This last weekend witnessed the Shanghai showdown, a contest in which the two top prototype race car manufacturers battled it...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG this week announced the death of Peter W. Schutz. The former President and CEO...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG this week announced the death of Peter W. Schutz. The former President and CEO...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup has a new champion. The 24-year-old German, Sven Müller, secured the title of the international...
In true Porsche GTS spirit, the output of the 2.5-litre, four-cylinder flat ‘boxer’ engine has been increased to 360 bhp courtesy of a new intake system and an optimized turbocharger. These improvements generate 15bhp more power compared with the 718 S model, and up to 35 bhp more power than the prior GTS models. A manual six-speed gearbox is standard, with the Porsche PDK available as an option. Standard equipment includes the Sport Chrono Package, Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV) with a mechanical rear axle limited slip differential and Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM).
At the ten-hour Petit Le Mans race contested on the tradition-steeped Road Atlanta racetrack last Saturday, the new 911 RSR...
The 911 RSR, which the Porsche GT Team also campaigned in this year’s Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC, is...
In the early 1950s, Porsche was still a very young company, and they certainly did not have the budgets enjoyed...
Sunday 15 October 2017 saw the running of Round 7 of the WEC Fuji, in Japan. It is quite typical...
Porsche is the most successful marque in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and British drivers have played an important role in delivering these historical achievements, and in celebration of this success a special limited edition model – the 911 Carrera 4 GTS British Legends Edition was created. Designed by the drivers who took wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the factory team – Richard Attwood (winner 1970), Derek Bell MBE (winner 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987) and Nick Tandy (winner 2015) – this model was developed by Porsche Cars GB and Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur.
The Simeone Foundation Auto Museum, this week, announced their annual Spirit of Competition award winner. The Spirit of Competition represents...
Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this lavishly illustrated book is...
Porsche has fought hard for their dreams over the years – just like they have done in motorsports for more...
This book not only describes the huge success of Jochen Mass as a racing driver, but it also reveals more...
IMSA visited the iconic Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the penultimate race in the 2017 championship. The Laguna Seca circuit...
Porsche set a new record for road-approved sports cars on the 20.6-kilometre Nürburgring Nordschleife in the 911 GT2 RS on...
Located in the town of Ummendorf, approximately 130km south east of Stuttgart, Proton Competition has been working on Porsche race...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The Porsche Carrera Cup GB rolled into Silverstone for the penultimate meeting of the season. The Free Practice sessions on Friday...
This last weekend saw a convincing performance by the factory Porsches, in both the LMP1 class and GTE Pro class...
Without any doubt, one of the most exciting classes or motor racing during the 1970s was the GT class, which...
The 911 GT3 with Touring Package was unveiled yesterday at the 67th International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany. Available...
To reach the finish on the ideal line without losing too much time is something Marco Ujhasi completely understands as...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
There has been much chatter on the Internet and on various social media platforms recently as to what would happen...
Porsche Junior Matt Campbell (AUS/Fach Auto Tech) scored his second victory of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season on Sunday...
The Porsche LMP1 team scored the perfect result in Mexico at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with a 1-2 finish for...
Not only Porsche enthusiasts all around the world, but rallying aficionados too, will appreciate the skills and achievements of Walter...
It was a long time in coming, or so it seemed, but when the 2017 Porsche 911 RSR was unveiled...
As the season approaches its latter stages, the duel for the crown of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup has come...
Although it was expected to be a difficult race, qualifying eighth and ninth out of nine cars in the GTLM...
Following a successful return to Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Snetterton a fortnight ago, John McCullagh returned to the Redline...
As their race director and one of the leading figures in their experimental department, Peter Falk contributed significantly to the...
It may be scheduled for a year hence, but this is one event you want to put into your diary....
Team75 Bernhard is located in Bruchmuhlbach-Miesau, in the district of Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, about 90 miles (144km) north west from...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
John McCullagh announced his return to the Porsche Carrera Cup with a magnificent third-place finish for Round 8 of the...
This last weekend’s 2017 Silverstone Classic was a triumph in many ways, but probably most of all for the spectators...
The Total 24 Hours of Spa, a round of the Blancpain GT Series, gets underway this weekend on the famous...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
If you would like to own a piece of motor racing history, no, make that a very significant piece of...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
What a wave of jubilation must have swept through the pit garage of the #92 Porsche RSR of Michael Christensen...
This weekend, the World Endurance Championship (WEC) moves to the Nürburgring in western Germany for round 4 of the series....
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
While all the hype surrounding the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hour race in France was occupying everybody’s mind, an endurance...
There was great excitement in Porsche circles around the world, when it was announced earlier this year that the Italian...
2017 24 Hours of Le Mans In Review is a video by Mobil 1 The Grid showing the highlights of...
Introduced in June 2017, the new 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series is the most powerful all-wheel drive turbocharged member of...
The 2017 Le Mans 24 Hour race will go down in history as one of the most dramatic in years....
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Held on the weekend of 3-4 June 2017, the test day for this year’s Le Mans was run under clear...
Sixty-six years ago, on 24 June 1951, the first Porsche was pushed tentatively onto the starting grid of the 1951...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Born: 8 May 1981 Where: Hasselt, Belgium Lives: Waiblingen, Germany Height: 1.80m Career 2017 Porsche works driver 2016 Audi works...
Every so often, Porsche creates a short production run of cars that celebrates the attributes of one of their special...
Born: 7 February 1992 Where: Mainz, Germany Lives: Bingen, Germany Height: 1.81m Career 2017 Porsche works driver 2016 Porsche Junior,...
It’s called, ‘being in the right place at the right time’! Only the previous day, I had spent photographing the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
It was a case of ‘what might have been’ as the two LMP1 Porsche 919 Hybrids experienced frustrating delays during...
Born: 25 May 1981 Where: Hannover, Germany Lives: Würzburg, Germany Height: 1.80m Career 2017 Porsche works driver, 2nd Daytona 24...
The origin of the model name, Porsche Carrera, is not only interesting but also somewhat hazy. It all started in...
Born: 19 November 1981 Where: Duisburg, Germany Lives: Tokyo, Japan Height: 1.84m Although it is his first year as a...
Having won the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hour race with Porsche’s LMP1 team, driver Nick Tandy returned to the Circuit...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Porsche made a solid start to their 2017 WEC campaign, when the #2 LMP1 919 Hybrid (Bernhard/Bamber/Hartley) finished second in...
It was a dry day at Silverstone on the first day of practice for this year’s WEC opening round at...
Now in its fourth year of competition, the Porsche 919 hybrid continues to be developed into a more efficient racer....
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
