Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
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Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
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...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
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...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
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Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
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...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
