In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
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Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
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Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
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The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
