Few race cars are as universally acclaimed as the Porsche 956. The car is a brilliantly engineered aesthetic wonder, born...
At the entrance to Goodwood Motor Circuit, the towering blue Goodwood flags rippled gently in the calm breeze of an...
John Surtees Luigi Chinetti Niki Lauda Ronnie Peterson 1 Porsche officially begins work on the 956 (1981). 3 Ludwig Heimrath wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada, driving a Cooper-Ford (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
RM Sotheby’s has announced another headlining car for its Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27 at the Porsche...
January 2018 Porsche 70 Years—There is No Substitute By Randy Leffingwell Porsche is one of the most important and iconic...
When I first started work for Porsche, I was naturally introduced to their ways of working, which I found in later years to become “the Porsche way.” Years later, I discovered that other automobile companies or racing teams did things a little different. The Porsche way wasn’t just talking around,...
The 1982 Porsche 956 was a car that we started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything was new, the...
When considering my greatest racecar, the question seems far too big for me to give a simple answer. I drove...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a road circuit near Nimes, France (1947). 3 Jody Scheckter drives a Trojan T101 to victory in the L&M Continental F5000 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio (1973). Become a Member...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started another of Porsche’s amazing periods of domination, this time in long-distance racing in the Group C and IMSA categories. Having decided that they wanted to win races outright rather than...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
