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In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
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On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
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Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
