Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
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The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
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....
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
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Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
