The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
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The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
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In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
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....
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
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...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
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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...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
