Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
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She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
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Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
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Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
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A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
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...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
