After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
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Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
If you were lucky enough to visit Rennsport Reunion 7 in Monterey, California, then chances are you gazed at one...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
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On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
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Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
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Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
