In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
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Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
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Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
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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The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
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...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
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One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
