Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
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Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
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...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
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Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
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In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
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...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
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Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
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...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
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...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
