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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It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
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...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
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In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
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She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
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In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
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...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
