Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal quantities of bright sunshine and torrential downpours. The Ebimotors team gathered with their #80 Porsche RSR for the family snap just as another downpour descended upon all and sundry (drivers: Fabio Babini, Christina Nielsen, Erik Maris). On the right of … [Read more...]
My Porsche
Pic of the Week – 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in October 1972. With the decade of the 1970s came a fresh, loud and colourful outlook on life and even sports cars were subjected to a bold makeover. Gone were the plain white, cream, silver, or black colours, as the ‘70s shouted lime green, yellow, blue, orange, and many other radical shades. … [Read more...]
Pic of the Week – 2006 Porsche 997 GT3
Porsche Club GB Festival, Eynsham Hall, 2006: On display at the PCGB annual festival was this pre-production Porsche 997 GT3 Gen. 1 – looking resplendent in front of the fountain and with a superb backdrop of Eynsham Hall itself. On the licence plate – BB EM 812 – “BB” refers to Böblingen, the town in the region of Weissach, and “EM” means Entwicklung and Motorsport. This is … [Read more...]
Pic of the week – 1980 Porsche 935 K3
It has been one year short of four decades since this 1980 Porsche 935 K3 was fabricated by Kremer Racing in Germany. Today this race car is every bit the race car it was intended to be back in the day – fearsome, awesome and very capable. It is powered by a 3.2-litre flat-six engine and fitted with twin KKK turbochargers, developing upwards of 700 bhp depending on boost. This … [Read more...]
Pic of the week – 1995 Porsche 993 Carrera RS
It is forty years since the introduction of Porsche’s first RS, the mighty Carrera RS 2.7, back in 1973. For Porsche, the letters RS, which stand for Rennsport, inspire images of sporting achievement and excellence earned the hard way through countless racing victories. At the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1993, Porsche unveiled its all-new 3.6-litre Type 993 model, the first 911 to … [Read more...]
Pic of the week – Team Essex Porsche RS Spyder Evo
Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone, 14 September 2008: The #31 Team Essex Porsche RS Spyder Evo 3.4-litre V8, driven by the highly-experienced pairing of Casper Elgaard/John Nielsen, overcame a couple of challenges in the race. Here the car comes crawling through the Vale complex with its front left wheel missing. The RS Spyder bumped and scraped its way around the circuit all … [Read more...]
Pic of the Week – Porsche 911 GT3 RSR FIA GT Championship 2006
Running in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship, the #53 Renauer Motorsport Team Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (Type 996, 3.6-litre) was driven by the Austrian pairing of Manfred Jurasz and Hans Knauss together with the Swiss driver Theo Heutschi. This was the opening round of the 2006 season on 7 May at the Silverstone circuit in Northampton, UK. I was standing just inside Copse … [Read more...]
Pic of the Week – Porsche 906 at Le Mans Classic 2018
This photo of the #50 1966 Porsche 906 Carrera 6 driven by Sabino Ventura (Ita) was taken on Friday 6 July. The Porsche 906 was running in Grid 4 of the 2018 Le Mans Classic … [Read more...]
My journey to Porsche ownership
My journey (Chris Stretton) to Porsche ownership started when I was still a teenager in the 1960s. My father, Lionel Stretton, was a serious petrol-head owning many different cars and competing in VSCC events, and so it was perhaps inevitable that I would become enthused by these activities. The first time I travelled at over 100 mph remains a vivid memory: it was at the age of … [Read more...]
Sports cars – it’s horses for courses
Owning a sports car is a compromise: on the one hand, it doesn’t have the space of a family estate, and for some it is slightly less practical as a daily run around. On the other hand, it has superior performance and in most cases, better looks, so, it is horses for courses. If you can live with the lack of space and the impractical nature of a sports car, then you have a … [Read more...]
