The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
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Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
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Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
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When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
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...
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...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
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Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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,...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
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...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
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 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
