While diplomats and cartographers may technically show the roads around Le Mans as French soil, Porsche has laid claim to...
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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...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
What makes the Porsche brand so legendary? What inspires people to keep it young and full of life 75 years...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
By the time that we reached the IMSA Riverside Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in April, the Dick Barbour Racing...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a...
75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering...
Over the years, we have attended many motor races and seen first-hand how the performance of the evergreen Porsche 911...
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...
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The Porsche Museum has just acquired a significant addition to its permanent exhibition. It is the oldest surviving car that...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather....
9:11 Podcast In the current episode of the 9:11 Porsche Podcast, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche talks about the company’s history, the...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Peter Gregg was the IMSA driver every one strived to beat. He started in the early ‘70s with Porsches and...
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
If you think post-war sports cars or muscle cars from the late 1960s are the staple of the collector car...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
One of the motoring highlights of my 2016 season, if not of all time, has to be driving a fabulous...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
This book-set, Brumos: An American Racing Icon, was authored by Sean Cridland and contains 1,600 pages and over 2,900 images chronicling...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
This feature, the second in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (2005-2008) and highlights the...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
More than five decades ago, Porsche tested the exhaust turbocharger in motorsport. Shortly afterwards, the turbocharger was introduced into series...
In 1982, Porsche introduced the Type 956, the race car manufacturer’s entrant in the newly created Group C racing series...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
When discussing breakthroughs in sportscar technology, the Porsche 959 merits its own chapter, if not a book. Introduced in the...
Celebrating the birth of a legendary brand In 1948, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car: with his...
It is interesting how, sometimes when you trace an old classic car or historic racer back to its roots, you...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
Le Mans in 1980 was in kind of a transition. The Porsche 935 K3 had won the prior year. Kremer...
In the week leading up to the Le Mans Test Day, Porsche announced their new liveries for the 24-hour race...
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Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
In this feature, the fifth in our series that looks at the different eras of Porsche’s participation at Le Mans,...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Porsche introduced their new 3.8-litre 911 GT3 RSR (Type 997) for the 2007 season, replacing the 3.6-litre 996 GT3 RSR....
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before...
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The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Background Tartan fabrics symbolize tradition and craftsmanship, belonging, and confidence. Exactly 50 years ago, three tartans were on the options...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
In the vast design world, few names resonate with as much acclaim and distinction as Porsche. While many associate this...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
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...
Alois Ruf Porsche Newsroom: As a teenager, Alois Ruf sees an early predecessor of the Porsche 911 on the autobahn,...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Launching the Firehawk Series For the 1985 Sports Car Racing scene in the USA, IMSA had decided to start a...
Overview Mountain championships, endurance races, Formula 1, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans after Le Mans – no matter what...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track. The LMP...
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
On 4 April this year, Richard Attwood will celebrate his 80th birthday, but speaking to him just a few months...
Over a hundred years ago, Ferdinand Porsche designed an extraordinary race car, the Austro-Daimler ADS-R, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Today,...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
The world of barn finds is an intriguing one, filled with hidden gems. It is a space littered with forgotten...
As the Dauer Porsche 962 LM GT celebrates its 25th anniversary (1994-2019), PORSCHE ROAD & RACE looks back at how...
