Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
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Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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,...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
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...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
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Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
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...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
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Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector 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....
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
