Chassis No: 911 460 9029 Engine No: 684 0053 Prod. No: 104 2302 G/box No: 716 1222 (15/1) Colour: White/Gold...
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My first “real” racing car was a Porsche RS/R, which I bought in the mid-1980s. Previously, I had done quite...
Imagine, if you will, that you are in Paris, France, in October 1972. There is an automobile show, a fairly...
This weekend, on April 8-10, the streets of Southern California will host the Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by...
This story covers the development of the Porsche 911 RS/RSR prototype in the middle of 1972. Surprisingly, the very first...
The premise was disarmingly simple: a race bringing together the best drivers in motorsport, all competing in identical cars, in...
There are 934s, and there are 934s… The Porsche 934 has long lived in the shadow of its more powerful...
Ed note: The history of specific chassis used in notable races decades ago can be hard to verify but are...
Porsche is well known for its limited production runs of both its road cars and race cars. This makes those...
In 1977, to participate in the SCCA Trans-Am championship, American pilot Monte Shelton and, concurrently, owner of Monte’s Motors Co....
997 Carrera Cup Champions & Results The 997 GT3 Cup was introduced in January 2005 for the upcoming racing season....
The silhouette is familiar. With weaves of carbon fiber covering almost every external surface, the Porsche 935/19 cuts an unmistakable...
Having spent its early days as a test and development hack, this 911 Carrera RSR rose to the occasion when pressed into...
This is the story of the International Race of Champions Porsche Carrera 911 RSRs and the drivers who raced them....
There was hardly a Porsche enthusiast who wasn’t deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Porsche’s favourite...
How our man, Richard Wiley, came to be the custodian of two Porsche 911s over a period of nearly nine...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an...
Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It covers the seven generations of...
The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the earliest models to...
A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race and since the 1970s ‘Carrera’ has been a model name...
This is Stéphane Coradi’s third publication, and the third of his books that I am reviewing. It must be said...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
The GT2 has been Porsche’s top performing roadgoing turbo model since ‘95, but the addition of the ‘RS’ lifts this...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covers the 1970s in his well-known and valuable decade-by-decade history of the Le...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
If any two letters have encapsulated Porsche’s sporting prowess over the years, it is these – RS. It is now...
Berlin Motor Books, a boutique book publisher located not far from the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) in Berlin, has been...
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...
The year 1974 will be remembered for many different reasons, depending on where you were living in the world at...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
The name, Randy Leffingwell, will be familiar to most Porsche enthusiasts. Leffingwell worked in Kansas City, Chicago and for the...
There seem to be a number of books entering the market right now on Porsche’s motor racing history. This is...
It landed on my desk one day, unannounced and unexpected. The package was large and covered in stickers and labels,...
Porsche 993 GT1 chassis #109 was one of just nine customer racing Porsche 911 GT1s built between 1996 and 1998....
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...
A True Head Turner We included a car from Makellos Classics in a list of our favorite Porsche custom cars...
Porsche’s roadgoing model line-up has seldom, if ever, been very far removed from the company’s motorsport programme. This thread can...
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...
Porsche – It’s My World: what is this book all about? Well, for starters, you won’t learn anything about Porsche’s...
A great many of Derek Bell’s racing achievements were achieved while behind the wheel of a Porsche racing car and...
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,...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
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...
In 1973, the Porsche 911, by now a decade old, was ready for a make-over. The 3-litre engine had reached...
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down...
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...
This year, 2018, Porsche will celebrate its 70th anniversary. Although the official date for the registration of the first car, 356-001,...
A large package landed on my desk just before Christmas, and being weightier than normal my interest was aroused, so...
Ernst Fuhrmann’s requirement to develop a significantly updated GT race car in 1977, would present a number of challenges for...
The ANDIAL 935-L ‘Moby Dick’ race car was a one-off creation that raced between 1982-1985. Without any help from the...
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...
Hailing from the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Ulrich Bez, who as Porsche Technical supremo hatched the 993, had two...
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Sixty-six years ago, on 24 June 1951, the first Porsche was pushed tentatively onto the starting grid of the 1951...
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...
When Brian Long’s latest 911 tome arrived, I could see the postman physically relieved to be handing over the package....
Sports car racing changed drastically in the early- to mid-1970s. The rules for the World Championship shifted away from the...
Much has been written about the Porsche 911, in fact there are few manufacturers in the world, that could boast...
