After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
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Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
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Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
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 vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
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...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
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...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
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...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
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Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
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...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to 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....
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
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...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
