The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
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One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
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...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
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...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
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As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to 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...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
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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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,...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
