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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In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
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In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
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...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
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...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
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Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
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...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
