The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza was more than just the scene of this year’s pre-season FIA/WEC Prologue, it also witnessed...
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‘Genius on wheels’ is the name of the exhibition at the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen that honours rally racing legend...
Following their second- and sixth-place finishes at Daytona a few weeks back, the Porsche GTLM squad were understandably upbeat about...
The 65th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring fuelled by ‘Fresh from Florida’ takes the green flag at 10:40...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 broke cover in October 1972, being revealed to the public for the first time...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Mention the name Porsche and motor racing, and minds immediately focus in on one of the famous race cars to...
After Daytona and Dubai, the twelve-hour race in Bathurst, Australia is the third major long-distance race of the season. On...
Amid much Paris-style razzmatazz, the ACO today announced the entrants for this year’s 24 Hour race. It goes without saying...
The 2017 Daytona 24 hours has an interesting field and mix of cars, especially in the GT class. Although I...
This Porsche 996 GT3 R is being offered for sale by Coys of London. When it was launched in 1998,...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
The countdown for the Daytona 24 Hours is on. At ‘The Roar before the Rolex 24,’ drivers and teams used...
The Porsche 911 family is expecting a new member. In March 2017, five new variants will join the range: the...
The 2016 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season began at Silverstone, on a cold, bright day in March. For the first...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
When Brian Long’s latest 911 tome arrived, I could see the postman physically relieved to be handing over the package....
It has been said before that there have probably been more books written on the Porsche 911, than almost any...
It is by now well known that Porsche won the prestigious Le Mans 24-Hour race in 2016, the company’s 18th...
The 2016 motorsport season ended successfully for Porsche at the Intercontinental GT Challenge 12-hour race on the Sepang International Circuit...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
This is the second edition of the well-known and much loved book by Michael L Shoen. The Cobra-Ferrari Wars: 1963-1965,...
Yes, it is getting a little late and you had the best intentions of being better organised this year –...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Porsche AG reopened its pavilion at the Autostadt park in Wolfsburg 15 November 2016, after a significant expansion programme. The...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
A couple of world records were set at the Silverstone Auctions’ NEC sale at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show,...
For the second consecutive year, Porsche has taken all the titles in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)! These include:...
It was announced today (25 November 2016) by Porsche Motorsport, that Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb will be leaving the...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Much has been written about the Porsche 911, in fact there are few manufacturers in the world, that could boast...
The 914 is the Porsche that most sports car enthusiasts turn up their noses at. Let’s face it, the 914...
John Fitzpatrick needs little by way of an introduction. He learned his trade the hard way, by racing his own...
Having had experience in single-seater, GT & LMP1 racing, Marc Lieb has become an integral part of the Porsche Motorsport...
Ever since the company first opened its doors for business in 1948, Porsche sports cars have epitomised the sporting side...
Porsche is returning to LMP1 for the first time since 1998. We took a look back at why the German...
Hotchkis Racing was one of the most successful privateer racing teams in the 1980s and its Wynn’s Porsche 962 was...
It’s out, the new model Porsche 911 RSR was launched this evening at the LA Auto Show. Porsche will tackle...
The team in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid, Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber scored a start-to-finish victory in...
So you think the Cayman is just a Boxster with a roof. Well, perhaps technically it is, but the two...
Most people, even those only vaguely interested in motor sport, will have heard about the Porsche 917. The first of...
Twenty years after the launch of the original Porsche Boxster, a new generation of Boxster was introduced in January 2016,...
The Porsche Museum is a living museum, and is equally at home at its state-of-the-art headquarters in Zuffenhausen as it...
Congratulations and good luck to Porsche Road & Race on the launch of this exciting new website, celebrating something that...
The clue is in the sub-title, The Complete History of Types and Models, as this three-set volume will provide the...
Every now and then a truly good book comes along, one that is not only excellent in its content, but...
The author starts his book, The Monza 1000km: 1965-2008, by calling the first chapter, the years between 1965-1971, the ‘Golden...
This is an autobiography by a man who enjoyed what many would describe as the perfect job. A talented mechanical...
The very existence of the Porsche sports car must rank as one of the more unlikely histories in the automotive...
Porsche Sounds is another fine publication to have been produced by the Porsche Historical Archives in Stuttgart. But why, you...
Author Brian Long needs little introduction to the serious motorsport enthusiast, and in particular, Porsche racing. This title covers Porsche’s...
Porsche’s domination of sportscar racing in the 1960s and 1970s by the 917 is well known, but the manufacturer’s rise...
If there was one Porsche racing car that set the Stuttgart company on the road to motor sport stardom, then...
Every once in a while a man or woman comes along who wants to shake the tree, turn convention on...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
For starters, when you pick up your copy of Kussmaul Chronicles, you can jettison any preconceived ideas of reading a...
Born: 5 April 1975 Where: Nürtingen, Germany Lives: Nürtingen, Germany Marital status: Married, 2 children Height/Weight: 1.74 m/69 kg Hobbies:...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
At the end of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship season Mark Webber will quit his professional racing career. The...
The reigning world champions Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber won a thrilling six-hour race in Mexico City on...
Porsche secured its fifth win of the season at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas on 17...
Porsche came third and fifth with its two 919 Hybrids in a thrilling six-hour race at the Fuji International Speedway...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the racing version of the 911 GT3. In 2016, almost 320 of the near-standard...
Born: 8 October 1981 Where: Auch, France Lives: Le Chesnay, France Marital status: Married Height/Weight: 1.76 m/67 kg Hobbies: Golf,...
An exceptionally original, never restored, beautifully preserved 1956 Porsche 550RS Spyder, estimated at £4.7-6.2 million has been announced for the...
Born: 5 November 1984 Where: Bedford, UK Lives: Bedford, UK Marital status: Married, 1 child Height/Weight: 1.78 m/71 kg Hobbies:...
Born: 27th August 1976 Where: Queanbeyan, Australia Lives: Buckinghamshire, UK Height/weight: 1.83 m/76 kg Marital status: Partner Ann Neal Hobbies:...
Born: 4th July 1980 Where: Stuttgart, Germany Lives: Ludwigsburg, Germany Marital Status: Married to Alexandra, two sons (Benedict and Jonathan)...
The power of the Cayman GT4 Clubsport is powered by a 3.8-litre mid-mounted flat engine developing 385 hp (283 kW)...
Born: 15 September 1956 Where: Oberwölz, Austria Lives: Munich Marital status: Married with one daughter Hobby: Icelandic horses At the...
Born: 22 November 1980 Where: Arras, France Lives: Perpignan, France Marital status: Married, 1 child Height/Weight: 1.76 m/66 kg Hobbies:...
Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser joined Porsche as a mechanical engineering student in 1995. With a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering specialising...
Born: 6 January 1976 Where: Passau, Germany As a team boss, Andreas Seidl is responsible for the technical running of...
Now imagine yourself in a rollercoaster at your local fair with its multiple ups and downs, and even upside down...
In 2014, Porsche marched back into the top class of endurance racing, and announced that they were here to take...
The 1998 GT1 car was a totally rethink and vast upgrade versus the prior year car. 1998 Le Mans 24-hour race In the 1998 jubilee year, the Porsche team celebrated its 16th overall victory in Le Mans with a double win for the 911 GT1 98. On 6th/7th June, the winning car was driven by Laurent Aiello, Allan McNish and Stéphane Ortelli. It was almost 50 years to the day on which the first Porsche sports car saw the light of day.
The 993 Carrera RSR takes the 993 Carrera RS formula and makes it even more track-ready by adding a roll-cage and removing carpet, power windows, and a/c. There were just thirty Porsche 911 Cup 3.8 RSR (Type 993) race cars produced for the 1997 season. This model was the last of the breed of air-cooled, naturally-aspirated 911 race cars to come from the Weissach race department before the introduction of the Type 996 water-cooled cars. To find a 993 3.8 RSR that participated in some of the world’s toughest endurance races in period, and survived unscathed and unmolested, is quite rare.
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.
Built so that the factory Rothmans Porsche Rally Team could hit the international stage, the SC RS used the Turbo’s body with fibreglass bumpers and aluminium doors. In Autumn 1983, Porsche presents the 911 SC/RS for motor racing. The engine originates from the 911 SC, with improved performance achieved by the mechanical ball fuel injection, increased compression, the cylinder heads from the 935 and forged pistons. Racing seats are fitted in place of the standard seats.
One of the most confused of all Porsche is this DKS or Dreikantschaber. It might appear like a mid-engine RS61 Coupe, but it is a rebodied 356B with a rear-mounted engine. Unlike the earlier 356s, this one featured fared-in driving lights and cut-off greenhouse reminiscent of of the RS61 coupe. Porsche didn't give this new a car a name since it was homologated and considered a Carrera 2 by the FIA. It was nicknamed Dreikantschaber.
