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As I’ve explained on the few occasions I’ve burst into print in Porsche Road & Race, my enduring love affair...
The 27th publishing of this superb edition of Porsche Sport 2019 by Gruppe C Verlag, opens with this paragraph, “The year...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
The word unique is a much-overused word today, as it is applied, it seems, to just about anything that is...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
For many years, Excellence Was Expected, the book on Porsche’s models, motorsport, company history and much more, has been regarded...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
Brian Long’s original book on the Porsche 356 was published in 1996, and this was later printed in softback form....
It is a fact that most of us with an interest in roadgoing or race cars, will have a favourite...
The name, Randy Leffingwell, will be familiar to most Porsche enthusiasts. Leffingwell worked in Kansas City, Chicago and for the...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
There seem to be a number of books entering the market right now on Porsche’s motor racing history. This is...
In the early 1980’s there was a divergence in the rules for sports car racing world-wide. IMSA (International Motor Sports...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
One of the Netherlands’ most successful racers, Toine Hezemans is part of a motorsport dynasty that began with his father...
When you were last with Richard Wiley, we were hurtling around a damp La Sarthe in 1988 with Stuck in...
It landed on my desk one day, unannounced and unexpected. The package was large and covered in stickers and labels,...
This is the beginning of a series of book reviews on early American racing, written by some very committed authors...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a...
It is always a pleasure when a top-quality book lands on my desk, so when Porsche – The Golden Years...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the man who tried to kill off the 911. There is far more...
I was really looking forward to the 1989 Daytona 24 Hour race. I had been working as a weekend warrior...
Porsche’s roadgoing model line-up has seldom, if ever, been very far removed from the company’s motorsport programme. This thread can...
Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz, looks back on...
Amongst its numerous attributes, Porsche sports cars have always been about performance, engineering, innovation and being different. From the production...
Owning a sports car is a compromise: on the one hand, it doesn’t have the space of a family estate,...
The Jägermeister 934 is one of the most recognisable liveries in the world of motor racing. It adorned the bodies...
The Story of the Porsche 911 – A Timeline Porsche Prepares To Evolve Beyond The 356 By the early 1960’s,...
The origins of the 1998 Porsche 911 GT1 Le Mans winner can be traced back to a roadgoing version of...
It was eight years ago, in March 2010, that Porsche presented its first hybrid supercar, the 918 Spyder Concept Study,...
Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Porsche – It’s My World: what is this book all about? Well, for starters, you won’t learn anything about Porsche’s...
The story of the fabulous 968 Turbo RS, one of Porsche’s sweetest front-engined racers, might be full of ‘what ifs’...
The Porsche 961 was a special racing car. Based on the roadgoing technical showcase, the Porsche 959, the Type 961...
A great many of Derek Bell’s racing achievements were achieved while behind the wheel of a Porsche racing car and...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
The 911 Carrera Club Sport was Porsche’s attempt at rolling back the years and once again, stoking the fires of...
Much has been written about Porsche’s racing exploits over the years, but there is perhaps one model that has served,...
There are just a handful of racing drivers that can list the number and quality of achievements that Hurley Haywood...
Porsche has made a lot of cracking 911s over 50+ years. We Pick the Best Production, Limited Edition & Race...
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down...
For many years, the éminence grise of Porsche’s competition department, but now in retirement, Roland Kussmaul seems busier than ever....
By the late 1950s, the German Wirtschaftswunder was well underway and as the economy grew, so traffic density increased. This...
Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, celebrates his...
If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
Not a company to stand still for long, Porsche was constantly looking for ways to improve its engines in the...
This year, 2018, Porsche will celebrate its 70th anniversary. Although the official date for the registration of the first car, 356-001,...
To be able to write on your résumé that you worked for one of Porsche’s CEOs would be quite an...
A large package landed on my desk just before Christmas, and being weightier than normal my interest was aroused, so...
If your favourite sports car comes from the Porsche stable, then you will want to know about this product –...
It was a clear day in April, typical of those late winter/early spring days when the weather was trying to...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s handsome, but battered face tells its own story: a combative...
In the early 1950s, Porsche was still a very young company, and they certainly did not have the budgets enjoyed...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
Not only Porsche enthusiasts all around the world, but rallying aficionados too, will appreciate the skills and achievements of Walter...
As their race director and one of the leading figures in their experimental department, Peter Falk contributed significantly to the...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
Sixty-six years ago, on 24 June 1951, the first Porsche was pushed tentatively onto the starting grid of the 1951...
Following their second- and sixth-place finishes at Daytona a few weeks back, the Porsche GTLM squad were understandably upbeat about...
The 65th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring fuelled by ‘Fresh from Florida’ takes the green flag at 10:40...
The 2.6-litre Porsche 956 which raced in the 1982/1983 seasons in Europe, was not accepted for racing in the USA,...
Porsche’s popular 911 model range has evolved hugely over the years, but a few iconic models stand out head and...
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 broke cover in October 1972, being revealed to the public for the first time...
More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company so the publication in English of another tome...
The countdown for the Daytona 24 Hours is on. At ‘The Roar before the Rolex 24,’ drivers and teams used...
The Porsche 911 family is expecting a new member. In March 2017, five new variants will join the range: the...
It is by now well known that Porsche won the prestigious Le Mans 24-Hour race in 2016, the company’s 18th...
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Often overlooked, the Porsche Type 64 holds a significant place in the history of Porsche sports cars. Great strides were...
Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo specialist and engineer...
Much has been written about the Porsche 911, in fact there are few manufacturers in the world, that could boast...
The 914 is the Porsche that most sports car enthusiasts turn up their noses at. Let’s face it, the 914...
Most people, even those only vaguely interested in motor sport, will have heard about the Porsche 917. The first of...
Every now and then a truly good book comes along, one that is not only excellent in its content, but...
The author starts his book, The Monza 1000km: 1965-2008, by calling the first chapter, the years between 1965-1971, the ‘Golden...
This is an autobiography by a man who enjoyed what many would describe as the perfect job. A talented mechanical...
The very existence of the Porsche sports car must rank as one of the more unlikely histories in the automotive...
Porsche Sounds is another fine publication to have been produced by the Porsche Historical Archives in Stuttgart. But why, you...
Author Brian Long needs little introduction to the serious motorsport enthusiast, and in particular, Porsche racing. This title covers Porsche’s...
Porsche’s domination of sportscar racing in the 1960s and 1970s by the 917 is well known, but the manufacturer’s rise...
If there was one Porsche racing car that set the Stuttgart company on the road to motor sport stardom, then...
Every once in a while a man or woman comes along who wants to shake the tree, turn convention on...
For starters, when you pick up your copy of Kussmaul Chronicles, you can jettison any preconceived ideas of reading a...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
Now imagine yourself in a rollercoaster at your local fair with its multiple ups and downs, and even upside down...
