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Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
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Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
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...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
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In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
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Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
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 word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
