Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
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Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
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The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
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Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
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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...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
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...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
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 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
