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The 2019 season opener at Daytona will certainly go down in history as memorable, but perhaps not for the reasons...
Driving the #911 Porsche 911 RSR, Nick Tandy put together a brilliant lap in qualifying at the Daytona 24 on...
Here, Pfaff Motorsports give us a brief look into the time and dedication required to prepare their Porsche 911 GT3...
Despite crewing for one of the teams at this year’s Rolex 24, our man on the ground, Martin, had some...
The 57th Rolex 24 at Daytona on the weekend of 26-27 January will kick off IMSA’s 50th anniversary season and...
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 On Track This is a 911 that wrote a big part of Porsche history....
There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus years that have been referred...
Run by Competent Motorsport, the Pirelli Trophy West USA is an amateur one-make racing series in which Porsche club racers...
Porsche scores fourth place at Macau in the 2018 FIA GT World Cup in Macau. In a fiercely contested race...
Both the factory Porsche 911 RSRs finished on the podium at the final round in 2018 of the WEC in...
There will be four Porsche 911 GT3 R on the starting line of the world’s toughest street race, the FIA...
Perhaps it was inevitable that Michael Ammermüller took the title, but there was a thrilling finale to the 2018 Porsche...
The 2018 Supercup finale in Mexico will quite literally go down to the wire! Fans in Mexico can look forward...
After racing at Spa, Zandvoort, Dijon, Magny Cours and Barcelona, the Porsche teams and drivers went to the south of...
At the halfway point in the 2018/2019 WEC Super Season, Porsche leads the field in the GT Manufacturers title by...
Without any doubt, one of the highlights of my year in motorsport in 2018 was the opportunity to pilot the...
It’s hard to know where to begin when writing a report on Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI. It was both an...
There are a few major endurance races around the world that roll off the tongue quite easily and quickly, such...
Mobil 1 The Grid attended the recent Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch, where 2015 Le Mans winner Nick Tandy...
Ultimate Track Test Road Racers. Ford GT, Porsche 911 GT2 RS, AMG GT R and Lotus Exige Cup 430 –...
There will be few who would argue that the decade of the 1960s was one of the most innovative and...
The IMSA series came once again to WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway in California for the penultimate round in the 2018...
The Marathon de la Route, an 84-hour epic endurance race run between 1965-1971, was an event that pushed both car...
Best On Track POV Video I’ve Ever Seen This Porsche 911 Carrera RSR being hammered on-track is the stuff of...
The 1983 Group C World Endurance Championship was arguably one of the most exciting and competitive racing seasons in years....
During the closing stages of FP2, I was photographing at Club Corner, just as the cars entered the start/finish straight....
The summer break is over, and it is back to business for the Silverstone Round 3 of the World Endurance...
After the summer break, the WEC heads to Silverstone this coming weekend for WEC Round 3 of the 2018/2019 Super...
The IMSA race this last weekend, round 8 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, produced rather mixed results for the...
Porsche took up the battle in the 2018 Spa 24 Hours with four 911 GT3 R race cars. The Spa...
In motor racing, the performance margin that separates the winners from the losers is often so small that it is...
I have always wondered, what the Goodwood FOS (Festival of Speed) was all about. Was it a race, a hill-climb,...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
Michael Roock and Uwe Alzen are class winners again, winning the GTS class for vehicles in the 1972 to 1981...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
It is unique in the motor racing world, and in historic racing circles, nothing comes close to the quality and...
Although the temperatures have hovered around the 30° C mark each day of the event, it feels a lot warmer...
This coming weekend sees the running of the ninth Le Mans Classic on the famous Circuit de la Sarthe. The...
Yes, It’s For Sale…. However, the allocation for MY2018 units was already spoken for before this calendar year – all...
A little more than twenty four hours ago, sixty cars lined up against the pit lane wall, and without exception,...
Writer Lucian Sonea sat down at the Le Mans Test day for an interview with Porsche Junior Julien Andlauer. The...
Qualifying 1 (Q1) for the Le Mans 24 Hour went off on Wednesday night without too much fanfare or drama....
Mobil 1 The Grid recently enjoyed a tour of the Porsche Experience Center in Carson, California, which serves as the...
The career of Patrick Lindsey, one of the Project1 Porsche RSR drivers, will hit a high point on the weekend...
Well it’s official, pigs can fly! The #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre/Laurens Vanthoor/Dirk Werner may not have...
This weekend sees the official Le Mans Test day on Sunday 3 June for those teams participating in the 86th...
Our contributor in France, Lucian Sonea, recently conducted an interview with Mathieu Jaminet, one of Porsche’s Young Professional Drivers. You...
The evening before the opening round of the WEC season at Spa, Porsche Road & Race had the opportunity of...
Born in Rome (you don’t get much more Italian than that!) on 30 May 1981, Gianmaria ‘Gimmi’ Bruni began his...
Perhaps the opening race of the 2018 WEC season at Spa did not end quite the way the Project 1...
The opening race of the 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup France season took place at Spa Francorchamps over the weekend of...
Porsche will be represented by a large fleet of vehicles at the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring: 43 Porsche 911...
Just before the Nürburgring 24-hour race will be green flagged on May 12, Porsche will present a dream team at...
The first race of the 2018 WEC season certainly didn’t disappoint. From the starter’s green lights, right up until the...
The first race of the season, the 2018 6 Hours of Spa, is almost upon us. Thursday saw Free Practice 1...
The Tour Auto Optic 2000 is one of the most prestigious historic racing events in the world. As early as...
Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa in the six-hour race at the famous circuit in the Ardennes...
Most people will enjoy a 30-40 year working life, and then go on to retirement. Others take a different route,...
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not only gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
In the year following a third consecutive WEC title, Porsche is taking its World Championship winning race car around the...
Activities have concluded for Porsche at the 2018 WEC Prologue, and by all accounts, it went very smoothly. Run over...
Changes to the Sebring 2019 schedule were announced during the week which will benefit all endurance racing fans. Following a...
There is a collection of cars that every racing and car enthusiast should see. It is at the Autobau, located...
Project 1 may be a new team on the block in WEC, but this year, the team celebrates its 25th...
As the main racing championships are about to begin the 2018 season, the Porsche Carrera Cup France has seen its first...
John McCullagh signed off on the 2017 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season with a fourth-placed finish and a stunning fourth-straight...
Porsche scored just a single win in the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship about three-quarters into the season, but now the...
The 12 Hours of Sebring, the toughest and oldest sports car race in the USA, will be held for the...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
By the late 1950s, the German Wirtschaftswunder was well underway and as the economy grew, so traffic density increased. This...
Every year the Le Mans 24-Hours circuit undergoes some changes, further development and maintenance works. To say that the Le...
Porsche aims to contest the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hour race with four works cars in the GTE Pro class,...
If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be...
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The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
The latest edition of the Porsche Victory in Le Mans series is out and it is as good, if not...
The Bathurst 12 Hour race serves as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. First held in 1991, the...
Martin Raffauf’s 2018 Daytona Notebook takes a comprehensive look at the whole Daytona race week. Martin has been going to...
Disappointing is the only way that you can describe the result for Porsche at Daytona this last weekend. Porsche and...
With the Rolex 24 at Daytona already two-thirds run, we can bring you the latest Daytona race progress. Martin was...
Thursday’s qualifying at Daytona was a tense affair, with the top spot being snatched in the prototype and GTLM classes...
Continuing with our Daytona diary, Martin has sent us the following selection of images from the Rolex 24. So catch...
We have our key man, Martin Raffauf, on the ground at the Rolex 24 at Daytona reporting for Porsche Road...
Round 1 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the Daytona International Speedway will be with us this weekend. It has been...
On 7 January 2018, Ulli Upietz, the well-known Porsche photographer and founder of the publishing company Gruppe C Verlag, passed...
Great sound, great engine! Filmed at Circuit Spa-Francorchamps, Zolder and the Nürburgring between 2011-2017. Great compilation of on-track fun in...
Porsche’s return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) was announced by Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche AG Board...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
The Le Mans winner’s trophy for the 24 Hours of Le Mans has found a new home at the Porsche...
With a company like Porsche developing powerful and efficient race engines, it was inevitable that other body and chassis builders...
