After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
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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...
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 Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
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...
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 name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
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...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
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Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
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In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
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...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
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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...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
