More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
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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...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
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...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
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 Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
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...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
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....
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
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After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
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...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
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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...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
