The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Barrie Horne/Gordon Robertson Porsche 911.Photo: Jakob Ebrey A pulse-quickening parade of more than 1,200 Porsche 911 sports cars took to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit on Sunday July 28—setting a new world record—as the Silverstone Classic celebrated the 50th anniversary of the iconic coupe. The plan to produce a parade of...
Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV will be held October 14 – 16, 2011 at the 2.2 mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th...
The museum of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart will be celebrating a special anniversary this year: It was 60 years ago, in the autumn of 1950, that the first Porsche 356 models were shipped to the USA. Since then, what was at that time just a small sports...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take part in the motor racing revolution there that changed motor sport forever in the USA. The list of people and projects he worked with would fill a book. He initially...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Porsche 917/30 McLaren, seeing the futility of going up against the might of the Porsche Can-Am effort without a turb-charged...
Paul Tracy James Hunt Photo: Maureen Magee 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race on the Keimola Ring in Finland (1969). 2 Johnny Thomson wins the USAC Champ Car race on the one-mile dirt track at Langhorne, Pennsylvania (1957). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
The Luftgekühlt gathering of the air-cooled Porsche faithful has been rescheduled for November 1, 2020. In the Porsche vernacular, Luftgekühlt...
On the Thursday evening of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach race weekend, the Road Racing Drivers Club hosted...
The Nürburgring 1000 km Race; May 31, 1970. Airborne! A Dechent-team Porsche 908/2 driven by Rudi Lins and Willy Kauhsen takes off at Flugplatz. They finished 6th overall behind two factory Porsche 908/3s, two Ferrari 512S spiders and the other 908/2 from the Dechent team. Photo by Yves Debraine. Photo...
The year was 1970 and these were the Targa Florio/Nürburgring 908/3’s. These cars were very squat and square, except for...
Photos from opening night at the Petersen Museum’s new “The Porsche Effect” exhibition, which will run throughout 2018....
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford and Atlantic, then won the Tasman Series down under before tackling British F3 during perhaps its best season ever. A single season of F1 peaked his career, before a Mexican...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France (1903). 4 Andre de Adamich and Henri Pescarolo drive an Alfa Romeo T33/3 to victory in the 1,000 km sports car race at Brands Hatch, England (1971). Become a Member...
Hagerty’s YouTube channel and presenter Henry Catchpole explore a 1985 Porsche 959 prototype that laid the foundation for the iconic...
This original water color painting by Uli Ehret shows the IMSA GTX class Porsche 911 RSR driven by Larry Perkins,...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; and the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
T Top cars have been around since the 1940s. They were originally designed to offer a convertible-like experience in various...
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...
By now, you’ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from...
By Edwin Baaske | Photos by Theodor Barth Eckhard Schimpf has brought together the most important cars from Jägermeister Racing...
In 1981, I set up my own team to do the Indy 500. I bought a McLaren M24 Cosworth and was reasonably successful that year finishing 3rd behind Unser and Andretti. During the race, Rick Mears had a pit-stop accident, suffering burns to his face. After the race, my wife...