The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
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The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
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...
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...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
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Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
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Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
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...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
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...
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The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
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,...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
