Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
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In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Norbert Singer must rank as one of the most successful race engineers in Porsche’s long and glittering motorsport history. Porsche...
Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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,...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
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...
Between the years 1962-1964, South African André Loubser worked for Porsche in Stuttgart. In Part I of this two-part mini-series,...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
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The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
The Porsche 956 and its successor the 962, are widely and justifiably regarded as the most successful sports racing prototypes...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
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...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Porsche Celebrates 75 Years It’s a big year for Porsche as the famed manufacturer celebrates 75 years of engineering excellence...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road –...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Dan Gurney, the well-known racing driver, passed away on 14 January 2018. Where does one start with a driver like...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
The PFM 3200-powered Mooney is legendary among aviators. They all want this ‘Porsche of the skies’ – and today there...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Goodwood Members’ Meeting to celebrate 75 years of Porsche with spectacular on-track demonstrations Goodwood is delighted to announce that the...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
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Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
