Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
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The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
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One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
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...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
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...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
