Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
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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...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
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...
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 to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
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By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
