The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
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On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
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Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
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...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
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 world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
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 mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
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