Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
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When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
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...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
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...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
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,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
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 world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
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...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
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 story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
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 Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
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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9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
