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Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
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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...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
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The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
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...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
