Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
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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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For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
