The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
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The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
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It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
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...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
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...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
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9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
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 mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
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...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
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 Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
