Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim 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...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
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...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
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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Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Le Mans 1990 was a whole new ballgame. The circuit had changed drastically. The famous Mulsanne straight was now going...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
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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The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
