Preamble – Early History In 1976, the rules for the World Championship of Makes (Sports Cars) changed to use the...
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It is 44 years since the all-conquering Porsche 956 burst onto the racing scene. Over a twelve-year period, from 1982...
The homologation of the Porsche 935 exactly 50 years ago marks the moment when an idea became a fully-fledged racing...
Hans Herrmann’s career was marked by numerous victories and unforgettable moments at Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, and the Targa...
As early as their drive home from Le Mans in 1997 Porsche racing chief Norbert Singer and racing engineer Herbert...
Before diving into the nitty gritty of this fabulous new publication, you may want to read the book review of...
Highlights 962-010’: the very last works chassis to be used by the factory team Driven to 2nd place at Le...
Photography by Matty White Media Every June, Le Mans isn’t just a race—it’s an event. A 24-hour endurance battle that...
The number 6 Porsche 963 from Porsche Penske Motorsport finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans in second place. In...
With 19 overall and 111 class victories, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans history. The 24-hour race...
Background The original 917 was developed by Porsche beginning in 1968 in anticipation of changes to FIA homologation rules allowing...
In the second race weekend of the 2024/2025 Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS), Manthey again demonstrated strong performance with their...
Le Mans, the movie This Porsche 917K was immortalized as the race winner in Steve McQueen’s 1971 film Le Mans,...
Photography by Matty White Media. A supremely promising early phase of the World Endurance Championship in 2024 shone favorably on...
The 2024 Le Mans 24-hour race ended on Sunday at 4 pm with the 111th class win for a Porsche...
Much of what Porsche learns in motor racing benefits the production models and thus the customers. The story of the...
The Porsche 963, manned by factory drivers Dane Cameron from Huntersville, North Carolina, and Felipe Nasr from Brazil, secured a...
WEC & IMSA The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna hosts the FIA WEC for the first time on the Formula 1...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
The Kremer Brothers, Erwin and Manfred, have been in the racecar preparation and construction business for nearly 40 years. Their...
The undisputed King The Porsche 917, conceived in the late 1960s, emerged from Porsche’s strategic intent to conquer the World...
Porsche Penske Motorsport will once again field three Porsche 963 race cars at the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans...
Regarding 1950s Porsche Spyders, the sheer number of podium finishes reveal a tale of one the greatest sports cars ever...
In a garage full of legendary vehicles, one in particular stands out: the Porsche 935. The Porsche 935 was the...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to...
One of the most colorful episodes in the history of Porsche was their 13th Le Mans victory in 1994 with...
Background In the early 1970s, a new European Grand Touring Championship gave the competition 911s a fresh lease of life....
Invitation to race from Charles Faroux Charles Faroux was a car enthusiast, a racing official, a leading French motor-publication editor...
We have partnered with Sports Car Digest to bring amazing Porsche content from the SCD archives to Stuttcars. This piece...
Motor racing has always involved risk for the drivers, and sometimes for spectators too, as was seen to horrific effect...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
All Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG In the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hour race, the...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The stage was set Having just celebrated its 75th anniversary, Porsche was ready to put another overall win in the...
Preview The Porsche Penske Motorsport works team has one goal at the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le...
With Stuttgart neighbor Mercedes on the rampage, Porsche had trouble on the track in the late 1990s GT1 era. But...
Porsche & Le Mans Newly released “Racing with Giants” video features archival footage of Le Mans past and present, along...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The terms Porsche and racing have now become virtually synonymous. In no small part, this is due to the German...
The three Porsche 963 fielded by Porsche Penske Motorsport at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will be decked...
Accused of sandbagging at Daytona, two WSC-95 spyders were in storage until called to duty by Team Joest. Porsches by...
Hertz, Singer and Tom Brady’s apparel brand BRADY™ combine at 100th Le Mans 24 Hours Hertz Team JOTA, the new...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans. Even just the name evokes memories of classic races, unbelievable tragedy, and some of...
Race day dawned with a blanket of morning mist covering the area. It was a crisp morning as I departed...
Without doubt, this race is recognised as the most important, the most charged and the one that everyone who is...
Porsche is back! The German carmaker departed the world of endurance racing at the end of the 2017 season. In...
Endurance racing legend Brian Redman is once again hosting Targa Sixty Six, a vintage race car gathering he founded in...
Porsche 356 SL bodies lined up in the Reutter workshop (Werk 2) in 1951. This facility was used as the...
The weather had been warm all week, but on race day, the heavens opened just in time for the start,...
Round 1 of the 9th season of the WEC was contested at the legendary Spa circuit on 1 May 2021....
On 15 June 1969, Jacky Ickx crossed the finish line in the 37th Le Mans 24 Hours a matter of...
The interesting thing about racing is that nothing is certain. You can prepare yourself and the car perfectly, but then...
Movie star and racing driver Steve McQueen had an idea to make a film based on the Le Mans 24H...
Both Mark Webber and Peter Dumbreck flipped their Mercedes CLR-GT1s during practice for the 1999 Le Mans 24 hour race....
The works Porsche 911 GT1 was leading with a decent margin by 2pm on Sunday. Around after 1.40pm, Ralf Kelleners...
Porsche GT1 versus McLaren F1 GTR Great battle between the Porsche GT1 and the McLaren F1 GTR at Le Mans...
The Porsche 936 was a racing car introduced in 1976 by Porsche as a delayed successor to the Porsche 908,...
Reportage sur les 24 heures du Mans 1963. Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rover, Lotus...
Mit den Porsche 718 RSK fährt Porsche auf den dritten Platz. Zwei Klassensiege und die Teamwertung können die Zuffenhausener bei...
The 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 26th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 21 and...
Porsche at Le Mans – The Ultimate Guide to Every Year & Every Result Circuit de la Sarthe is situated...
This feature, the fourth in our mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 3: 2013-2016) and highlights...
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news this week of the passing of not one, but...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) revealed just yesterday, Tuesday 9 March 2021, the 62-strong entry list for this year’s Le...
In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories,...
At Porsche Road & Race, we receive many books for review, and these include books on all manner of high...
Clearly it isn’t a Porsche, but it must rank as one of the best looking sports cars of its era....
It all started back in early March of 2020. I had a trip planned to visit the Porsche Museum in...
The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record....
Under unseasonably hot conditions for late September, the 88th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is finally a reality....
More than 4.75 million visitors have passed through the doors of Porsche’s Museum in Stuttgart since the company officially opened...
With the dawning of the 1982 season, the introduction of the Group C era ushered in a new breed of...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
Over the years, there has been a lot written on the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race...
I first caught sight of the Ferrari 333 SP at Kyalami in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 1998. It was...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covers the 1970s in his well-known and valuable decade-by-decade history of the Le...
It was with great sadness that the motoring and motorsport world learned last week of the passing of Hans Mezger,...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
As the weekend of the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours approaches, 13-14 June, we take a look back at...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Simply titled, SportErfolge (English: Success in Sport), this book came my way quite by surprise. It is not a book...
Former Porsche works driver, Gérard Larrousse, celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday 23 May 2020. Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse...
On the world stage, GT racing has enjoyed as many ups as it has had downs over the years, but...
This weekend is just one month short of what would have been the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours race...
This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2: 2010-2012) and...
California may seem like the ideal place on earth to live, with its legendary beaches, surf and laid back lifestyle,...
ENDURANCE is a look back at the two greatest endurance races that the Porsche GT Team faced on back-to-back weekends...
Two of the world’s greatest endurance races for GT vehicles within eight days on back-to-back weekends show how Porsche Motorsport...
