Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
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In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
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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,...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
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...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
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 crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
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...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
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Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
