Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
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In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
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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...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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....
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout 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...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
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Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
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...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
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 popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
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The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
