Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
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The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
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This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
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Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
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Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
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...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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...
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...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
