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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Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
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This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
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...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
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The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
