The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
Porsches have scored a record 16 overall victories at Le Mans, 14 similar triumphs in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and eight 12-hour wins at Sebring, and upon all of them can be found the fingerprints of Norbert Singer. A 30-year-old graduate engineer with a Masters in Mechanical Engineer, Aviation...
As you’ll read throughout this issue, in honor of this month’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV, we’re paying our own tribute...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the...
Prior to 1980, I had raced in the United States on a few occasions—I’d done Daytona two or three times with Porsche and I’d been to Watkins Glen. I won at The Glen in ’78 with a 935, but I hadn’t done many races. Just two or three a year....
Of course, my dad gave me the talent to become a racing driver and he helped me a lot. He...
Porsche is one of those marques about which I feel ambivalence. Unless the six numbers click into place on the...
This original water color painting by Uli Ehret shows the IMSA GTX class Porsche 911 RSR driven by Larry Perkins, Gordon Spice and John Rulon-Miller, braking into Mulsanne Corner during the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Charles Ivey Engineering team Porsche finished 14th overall and 2nd in class....
Sebring, March 21, 1981. The grid for the 12 Hours pulls out for the warmup lap, led by the fastest...
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Lotus Bashing? Photo: Pete Austin Dear Editor, OK, we get it, Mike Lawrence doesn’t like Colin Chapman. Like all critics, Lawrence is quite content mutilating the achievements of his betters while never having done anything worthwhile himself. Had he ever accomplished anything of note he would know that creating things, particularly big...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Its svelte silhouette has been a fixture of our sport for—take a breath—practically half a century. Incredibly, the lines and layout of the original Porsche 911s are recognizable in the most recent ones. And next year we’ll see yet another model iteration that will look fresh and new, but still...
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Porsche by Mailander By Karl Ludvigsen Rodolfo Mailander was a German photographer whose work had already achieved a degree of...
When it comes to Porsche and racing, much has been written, both in print and online, about the Rennwagens from...
As the 38th annual vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rolled to a close, the circuit’s general manager, Gillian Campbell, announced that Cobra will be the featured marque for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for next August 17–19. Created by Carroll Shelby in 1962 when he...
Chic Vandagriff’s influence can be seen in many chapters of the history of motor racing in the United States. One...
The third annual New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing will take place next January 20-22 and 27-29 at the superb...
Chris Bender scored back-to-back Historic Grand Prix victories with his March 821-Cosworth on consecutive July weekends, winning the feature races at both the Legends of Motorsports Bobby Rahal Signature Event at Quebec’s Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America in Wisconsin. After...
A.J. Foyt has been named Grand Marshall for next January’s 50th Anniversary running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The...
Following two years of planning and assistance from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas Speed Week Revival will take...
After 7,241 miles accumulated across nineteen states, John Nikas and his battered 1953 Austin Healey 100 rolled across the stage in front of a packed house at the Russo and Steele Monterey Auction, on August 20, completing his epic journey from Huntington Beach, California, to Charleston, South Carolina and back. During...
