More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
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It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
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Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
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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She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
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...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
