This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
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One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
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In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
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....
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only 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...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
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...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
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...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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,...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
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...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
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...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
