Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
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In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
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...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
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...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
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Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
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A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
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 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
