Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
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In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
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The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
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...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
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Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
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 Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
