One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
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F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
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...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
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...
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 name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
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...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
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The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
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...
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...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
