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Yesteryear

Mini-Series Porsche GT Racing Part 4

29th March 2021 by: Glen Smale | 1 Comment

This feature, the fourth in our mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 3: 2013-2016) and highlights the continued growth and success of the evergreen Porsche 911 on the UK and European motorsport scene between 2017 and 2019. 2017 Silverstone 6 Hours, 16 April 2017 The Silverstone 6 Hours served as the opening round of the 2017 FIA World Endurance … [Read more...]

Quick Nick – a Nick Faure profile

16th March 2021 by: Kieron Fennelly | 2 Comments

Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in 1968 and later graduated to a very successful season with an RS 2.7. He then had a year racing the Carrera RS 3.0 followed by a series of drives in RSRs, 934s and the Kremer K3 at Le Mans. Appointed official demonstration driver by Porsche Cars GB, he alone was allowed to drive … [Read more...]

1966 Porsche 911 2.0-litre time capsule

5th March 2021 by: Glen Smale | 2 Comments

Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car Championship in 1967 in the hands of Vic Elford. Vic Elford was a man on a mission; he knew where he was going and what he needed to get him there. Fresh from two third place finishes in the Tour of Corsica in 1966 and the 1967 Monte Carlo … [Read more...]

This Martini was neither Stirred nor Shaken

26th February 2021 by: Glen Smale | 2 Comments

In 1971 the first ever Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle, Washington. That same year, the fourth manned landing on the moon took place with Apollo 15, and Disney World, Orlando, Florida was opened. It was also fifty years ago this year that Porsche 917-053, the #22 Martini Kurzheck race car, shot across the start/finish line at Le Mans to notch up Porsche’s second … [Read more...]

The Remarkable Molly Porsche 356

19th February 2021 by: Porsche Road & Race | Leave a Comment

She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed Engineering, Lincolnshire, England, asked the workshop’s owner, Robert Gant, to find him a right-hand drive Porsche 356A. This customer wanted to try his hand at a bit of classic rallying, and for his very first event, he had entered the 2007 Peking to Paris rally! Well, … [Read more...]

Porsche’s fabulous 904/8 – chassis #008

12th February 2021 by: Glen Smale | 4 Comments

F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great interest in the field of industrial design. Working under the direction of Erwin Komenda, F.A. Porsche set about learning the business from the inside, and was soon given the task of ‘working’ on the new shape of the 718 racer for the ’61 season. Showing an … [Read more...]

Winning Kreepy Krauly March-Porsche 83G GTP

29th January 2021 by: John Starkey | 3 Comments

Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche. It was a March GTP car, an 83G that, in the hands of Al Holbert, not only won the 1983 IMSA Camel GT Championship, it also won the 1984 Daytona 24-Hour race outright, in the hands of its new owners, the South African-based ‘Kreepy Krauly’ team. To uncover the … [Read more...]

The Spyder spins its web

22nd January 2021 by: Glen Smale | Leave a Comment

Having quietly racked up numerous victories in the ALMS in 2006 and 2007, including an indecent number of overall victories, the LMP2 Porsche RS Spyder developed into a mature thoroughbred racer just as its forebears did. In the world of Porsche motorsport, nothing happens by chance and equally, nothing is left to chance. But, as the new millennium rolled on, many … [Read more...]

Heinrich Klie and the 914

15th January 2021 by: Kieron Fennelly | Leave a Comment

Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially it was only a moderate success, but it’s very distinct minimalist styling, though part of the idiom of the 1960s, was very much an in-house design. Almost two decades after the first Gmünd coupés, the 914 was the company’s third new … [Read more...]

Porsche 911 Turbo through the decades

8th January 2021 by: Glen Smale | 2 Comments

Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It covers the seven generations of the legendary 911 Turbo from inception in the mid-1970s right up to the current 992 model. No apology is made for using some of the text from the original feature, as this includes the unparalleled comments from rally legend, Walter Röhrl, who assisted with … [Read more...]

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Don’t Wash Mine

I have been looking forward to seeing this new book from Dalton Watson, covering the very colourful

Porsche 911 G-Model: The Book 1974-1989

Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and

50 Years Porsche 914

Whether you love it or hate it, the 914 served as a very important family member in the Porsche

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