Porsche will be the honoured marque at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for 12 – 15 July at...
Most of the international racing successes of Porsche works drivers Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) were clinched together....
As a young boy James Mitchell shared his father’s hobby and passion for classic and historic cars. Always fascinated by history, his education took him on a very different journey as he studied and gained a degree in Theology at Edinburgh University. However, on a train journey home, reading a...
The FIA (Federation International Automobile) sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed...
The 2018 La Jolla Concours d’Elegance concluded its 14th year on a high note last Sunday, April 8, with more...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton professor, he was an eminent mathematician and physicist, instrumental in the development of computer science, a participant in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb and a Nobel laureate....
A collection of around 200 Porsches will be sold by Anglia Car Auctions over the next year, with the first...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
With 30 years in development, the Porsche Carrera Cup North America will ultimately make their debut in 2021. This premier one-make race series in North America will use the yet-to-be-revealed Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars as well as the MICHELIN® Pilot® Sport Cup N3 racing slick to test the greatest...
Can it be? Steve McQueen’s motorsport magnum opus movie turns 50 this year. The film Le Mans was released in...
The Silverstone Auctions event was staged on 13th May 2017 at the Silverstone Circuit, resulting in total sales of £3.6...
The weekend of October 14–16 will bring perhaps the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars, racers and personalities to California’s Monterey Peninsula. At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Porsche Cars North America will hold Rennsport IV, the fourth iteration of its quasi-triannual homage to its racing past. This October’s Rennsport will...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
Sebring, March 21, 1981. The grid for the 12 Hours pulls out for the warmup lap, led by the fastest...
A selection of racing and limited production Porsches will be among the headline offerings at the 2016 Gooding Pebble Beach auction, to be held August 20-21 at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center during Monterey Classic Car Week. The Porsches include the ex-Paul Newman Porsche 935 that won the 24 Hours...
Enjoy the sound of a Porsche 911 GT1 as it goes all out racing on a wet Le Mans track....
Porsche will return to Le Mans with a works-run LMP1 sports prototype, with the first outing of the completely new...
When Porsche introduced the 4-cam racing engine, it was a sensation. Porsche Spyders with this engine soon dominated their class. The problem was that this power plant was complex and difficult to work on. In the U.S., one man emerged who was acknowledged as a genius with the 4-cam. He...
Bruce McLaren Umberto Maglioli 2 Bruce McLaren is killed in an accident while testing the McLaren M8D Can-Am racer at...
Garie Cooper Jurgen Barth 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
With timeless classics such as the 356 and the 911, Porsche has been cultivating a unique reputation in the automotive world since 1948. Yet during the past six decades, Porsche has also managed to consistently develop highly exclusive super sport scars, many of which will be on show at the...
January 2019 Dan Gurney AJ Foyt David Donohue Bernd Rosemyer 1 FISA bans sliding skirts on racecars (1981). Become...
Travelling to the capital of Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle, specially prepared classic Porsche 911s have taken part in...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
The 2010 Tour Britannia had a small but very competitive entry in both the regularity and competition sections, the former...
Barrie Horne/Gordon Robertson Porsche 911.Photo: Jakob Ebrey A pulse-quickening parade of more than 1,200 Porsche 911 sports cars took to...
Hand carved from mahogany, the Ford GT-40 shown above measures 13 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 3 inches tall, and has nearly 760 hours of time invested in it, from preliminary research to final sanding of the finished project. Similar statistics apply to the Porsche 917 as well. All...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
As a result of my 1967 win in the Kyalami Nine Hours, in South Africa with Jacky Ickx in the...
Hagerty’s YouTube channel and presenter Henry Catchpole explore a 1985 Porsche 959 prototype that laid the foundation for the iconic model built from 1986 to 1993....