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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Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
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When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
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...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
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Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
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...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
