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Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
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...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
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...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
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Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
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Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates 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 Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
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One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
