Preamble – Early History In 1976, the rules for the World Championship of Makes (Sports Cars) changed to use the...
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Incredibly successful in Le Mans Porsche was incredibly successful with the 917 in Le Mans and in the World Championship...
Background Since the 1960s, Porsche has been optimizing the aerodynamics of future racing and production vehicles in the wind tunnel...
Much of what Porsche learns in motor racing benefits the production models and thus the customers. The story of the...
In a garage full of legendary vehicles, one in particular stands out: the Porsche 935. The Porsche 935 was the...
They say that the cream always rises to the top, an expression used to illustrate that if something is really...
On the list of most intoxicating objects in the history of collecting, Porsche racing cars are certainly near the top....
As Rolf Stommelen climbed behind the wheel of the front-running Andial/Meister Porsche 935K3 after co-driver Derek Bell had pitted to...
After bodywork testing with the prototype 934, 930 670 0001, the Porsche factory built its first 935 to actually race...
Sports car racing went through some turbulent times in the early 1970’s. At the start (1970) the world championship was...
There are 935s, and then there are 935s… Although almost a hundred Porsche 935s were built between 1975 and 1984,...
The premise was disarmingly simple: a race bringing together the best drivers in motorsport, all competing in identical cars, in...
Development of the 1979 Kremer-Porsche K3 Kremer Racing, headed up by the two brothers Erwin and Manfred, from Cologne, Germany,...
JLP-4 was the final race car in the line of Porsche 935 specials built for the John Paul father and...
The phone rang, it was my old friend Carlos de Quesada. “I’ve just bought a 935 to restore,” he told...
In the mid-70s, Porsche developed the 935 model, a race car homologated on the 930 road car and aimed at...
In the mid-1970s, Porsche developed the 911 for racing, and in the process, it created the all-conquering 935. In 1978,...
Rolf Sprenger was a versatile engineer whose Porsche career was founded almost entirely on customer service. “If I want a...
By the time the Dick Barbour Racing team arrived in Portland for the Rose Cup IMSA race in August of...
The Porsche 935 was the Stuttgart manufacturer’s answer to the FIA’s Group 5 class regulations, making it eligible for the...
A lack of testing proved to be the downfall of the Porsche-Lola T600 in the 49th running of the Le...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
In the early to mid-1970’s I had been working part time (race weekends) as an IMSA tech inspector at some...
Group 5 rules offered manufacturers a great deal of freedom to modify their cars in the Silhouette class. At Porsche,...
Dick Barbour went to Le Mans as an entrant for the first time in 1978. He entered two Porsche 935s...
The 1972 season broke, ushering in with it a new era of racing. The Porsche 917 had reigned supreme for...
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...
The Flying Tigers strike again! Being the best on the planet in something, even for just a short while, has...
Without any doubt, one of the most exciting classes or motor racing during the 1970s was the GT class, which...
By 1981 at the earliest, and for sure by the 1983 season of sports car racing, it had become clear...
Sixty-six years ago, on 24 June 1951, the first Porsche was pushed tentatively onto the starting grid of the 1951...
The Garretson Developments Sports Car team entered two cars at Le Mans 1982, a March-Chevrolet and a Porsche 935. The...
The 1983 Sebring 12 Hour was an epic event. Back then the race was run on the ‘old circuit’ which...
The IMSA season in the 1970s always started with the two toughest races on the calendar, the Daytona 24 Hours...
A lot of people have asked me over the years, what is it like to plan, prepare for and run...
The Race for the Pork Cutlets… The end of June 1980 was a busy time at Dick Barbour Racing. We...
Le Mans 1979 was a race for the ages. The Dick Barbour team had prepared and brought four 935 Porsches...
