The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
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As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
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The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
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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 PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
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She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
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....
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
