These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical development of the particular car we were working with. It was long before the days of computer data logging and evaluation which is so prevalent today. So, a driver was...
No one could accuse Porsche of letting the grass grow under its feet when motor racing’s governing bodies chose to...
Watch this onboard video featuring the 1986 Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Porsche 962 hustled around the Laguna Seca during a...
I’ve driven many racing cars during my career and, for me, a great racecar has to have exceptional acceleration and handle extremely well. These qualities are uppermost for any racing driver, be they male or female. The year 1980 was the most incredible year of my career; I was driving...
For decades Porsche has created some of the most intriguing and desirable road cars on the planet. But even with...
1998 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, the Porsche 911 GT1-98 with chassis number 003, in action at the 2018...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
For fans of Stuttgart’s finest, there is no bigger event in North America than Porsche Club of America’s annual Porsche...
The 63rd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held August 18, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links, will feature a variety of special marques including: Lincoln — After Ford purchased Lincoln in 1922, Edsel Ford took a marque well known for mechanical excellence and defined it with...
What hasn’t been said about the new Cayman? It’s a sweetheart of the automotive journalism community, and if you’ve ever...
The California Mille will once again take participants on a tour of Northern California this April 24-27, all in celebration...
Porsche enthusiasts take note. The 2018 Porsche Rennsport Reunion will take place September 27-30 at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. Better still, Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) said the sixth edition of Rennsport Reunion will grow to four days. In what has become a tradition,...
The 2020 Concours of Elegance celebrated its most significant running yet, being the first international concours d’elegance event to be...
Written by Matt Stone / Photography by Kristina Cilia Big single marque events and shows are growing ever more popular,...
With Hagerty at the helm, the Greenwich Concours kicked off with large crowds and an impressive assortment of Porsche cars, Concours d’Lemons and Radwood. The field has been reconfigured, gone are the circles of cars, replaced by open lines of cars allowing folks to wonder all around the car, a...
Nestled in the woods in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Raceways still puts on a good show. It’s been the home...
Photography by Martin Raffauf. This year was the 60th anniversary of the Daytona 24 Hours race. The race in the...
The 49th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona will be held January 29-30, 2011 on the 11-turn, 3.56 mile road course at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Current regulations for the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series are aimed at strict parity among the racing entrants. While seemingly...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
When Porsche decided to wage a complete assault on overall victory at Le Mans in 1970, they entered the French classic with three awesome racers. Sold to the John Wyer-Gulf Team and painted light blue with orange roofs, these were the ultimate weapons of the day. Unfortunately, all three Gulf...
Seven Decades of Porsche will be celebrated at this year’s 41st annual Cincinnati Concours d’Elegance, set for June 8-10 in...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
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...
If there was ever an “underdog” story of man and machine, Porsche would undoubtedly be in the running for the...
It was a pivotal meeting between Professor Ferdinand Porsche and Max Hoffman, in the autumn of 1950 that led the...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th, 2018. On this very day in 1948, the Porsche 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster received its general operating permit. With this special exhibition, Porsche presents numerous stories and milestones through which...