As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
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Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
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...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
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 a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
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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 Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
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...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
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...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
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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Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
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...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
