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Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
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,...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
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...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
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The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
