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The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions 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...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
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Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
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As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
