Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
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In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
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The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
