The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
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Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
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...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
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In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
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...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
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,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
