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Porsche’s race-bred engineering: from the 917 and 962 to the 919 Hybrid
There is no manufacturer more intrinsically linked to motor racing than Porsche. Yes, it may not be the world’s biggest…
Race to Road Porsche
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Porsche’s winning formula: lightness, reliability and relentless development
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport…
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Two cars, one shared history: Jim Clark’s Porsche 356 reunited with a rival 70 years later
If these two could talk... Most classic cars have a brilliant tale or two to go with them, but the…
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Herbert Linge: the Porsche apprentice who became its first employee
In 1943 a father escorted his 15-year-old son to a factory gate in Stuttgart. It was the first day of…
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Porsche 904: how a four-cylinder stopgap became a Targa Florio winner
Almost by tradition, Porsche’s sports racing cars were built with tubular frames. Hermann Ramelow designed the original tubular frame Porsche,…
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Richard Attwood on Porsche’s 917 and the Le Mans wins he nearly had
Richard Attwood strides into the pub, dapper as ever just days after his 85th birthday, and greets me with an…
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Why Porsche’s 956 and 962 stayed competitive for so long
This was a little like digging priceless historical artefacts out of a field. First one emerged, a dream all by…
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Norbert Singer and Porsche: 40 years of engineering Le Mans victories
The earliest use I can find in print of the expression “Racing improves the breed” dates from 1835. It refers,…
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Norbert Singer’s Porsche racers: from the Carrera RSR to the 911 GT1
Porsche Carrera RSR Career 1973-87 Major wins Daytona 1973, ’75 & ’77; Sebring ’73, ’76 & ’77; Targa Florio ’73;…
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Why Porsche built the 936 in secret for Le Mans
Think of your favourite Porsche Le Mans racer. Many would plump for the 917 or, just as likely, the 956/962.…
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Timo Bernhard’s 5min 19.546sec lap showed what the Porsche 919 Evo could really do
The familiarity of the scene is uncanny. A gaggle of Porsche engineers huddled around the latest prototype racing car, preparing…
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How the Porsche 956 and 962 kept winning at Le Mans against factory and privateer rivals
1982 Not as easy as 1-2-3 Porsche laid down a marker with the 956 on its Le Mans 24 Hours…
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Why Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS feels faster than its Nürburgring record suggests
So fast is the pace of change among ultra-fast road cars at present that when I drove the Lamborghini Huracán…
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Why the Porsche Cayman GTS’s naturally aspirated flat-six still feels special
Remember when life on the road was one of simple pleasures? Of naturally aspirated engines, manual transmissions and cars that…
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Porsche’s 911 GT3 gains double wishbones and 385kg of downforce
It will not have escaped your attention that fast car manufacturers are engaged in a seemingly endless, futile and entirely…
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Porsche’s greatest drivers: the men who delivered victories for Stuttgart
Almost everyone has raced a Porsche. The very thorough racingsportscars.com lists 3700 outright victories – a figure rarely still for…
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Why Bruce Meyer’s Porsche 935 K3 was the target of a Laguna Seca prank
When motor sport is pretty much done for the year, the American racing scene turns into bench-racing season, where footloose…
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Porsche 911 GT3 Manthey cuts Nürburgring lap time with suspension and aero
Max Verstappen didn’t win the Nürburgring 24 Hours. But he did something that the combined might of Mercedes, Ferrari, BMW,…
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