During Saturday's rainy day racing at the 76th annual Goodwood Members Meeting, a pair of Porsche racers, Ambrogio Perfetti and Mark Bates, went toe-to-toe in one of the best vintage racing battles we have seen in a very long time. The pair were enrolled in the Ronnie Hoare Trophy race, chasing each other around the circuit for the honor of fourth …
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Ride Onboard With This Porsche 904 Racing At Goodwood
The Porsche featured here is one of eight 904s entered in this sprint race at Goodwood, called the Ronnie Hoare Trophy race. This was the very first race of the weekend, and featured a series of British, German, and Italian small-bore race cars built between 1961 and 1966. The car you ride onboard with in this video is the #35 Porsche 904 driven by …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Highlights From the Group 5 Demo Run At Goodwood
No matter which camp your motorsport allegiances lie, it is a fact that the most ubiquitous and iconic car of the Group 5 era is Porsche's wild aerodynamically shaped 911-based prototype, the 935. This year, for the 76th Members Meeting at Goodwood, a few dozen of the greatest Group 5 cars were invited out to parade around the circuit in a …
Continue to the full articleRide Onboard Todd Treffert’s 911 RSR At Sebring
The Sebring circuit down in Florida is a favorite of mine. Not just because it hosts the famed 12 hour sports car endurance race every spring, but because it's an incredibly unique venue. In today's buttoned-up and professional sports car racing world, it's nice to see an old-world military base airstrip track still in use. It's bumpy and there's …
Continue to the full article6 Races. 7 Continents. One Porsche 356. One Driver.
The two-and-a-half-year journey for Renee Brinkerhoff to race this beautiful 356 on all seven continents is already underway. Yes, you read that right, all seven. She's even taking this Porsche to Antarctica to race. Through January of 2020, Brinkerhoff and her Valkyrie Racing team will be working to get this 1956 Porsche 356A ready for six races …
Continue to the full articleThe Flame Spitting Sights And Sounds Of Porsche 935
Not many people know this fact, but Porsche actually built a series of flamethrowers in the 1970s and 80s that were strangely shaped like 911 race cars. With each lift off the throttle pedal, a 935 will pop flames from the exhaust outlet. It's not what made the car successful in racing, but it sure didn't hurt. In fact, it's part of what makes the …
Continue to the full articleRide Onboard This Ex-Targa Florio Porsche 908/3 For A Lap Of Sonoma Raceway
The Porsche world's favorite potato-chip-magnate-turned-vintage-racer, Cameron Healy, is among the coolest people in the world, and he has a serious love of Porsche. He's been working with Rod Emory on a number of projects recently, including the full restoration of Porsche's 1951 Le Mans-winning 356SL and subsequent preparation for the Pebble …
Continue to the full articleWalter Röhrl Elegantly Drifts a 911 S at a Rainy Nürburgring
The legend might be nearing seventy, but his talent hasn't diminished a bit. Walter Röhrl is still the king of driving in inclement weather, and this masterclass of graceful drifting through a sodden Nordschleife must be seen by anyone with a drop of motor oil in their veins. Even with a 2.0-liter motor powering this vintage 911 S, Rohrl still …
Continue to the full articleWatch This Classic 911 Drift Acrobatically on the Rally Stage
Andreas Dahms certainly knows his way around a sodden, dirt-packed road in a classic 911. With Inka Lerch sitting in the next seat calling the stage notes, Dahms puts on an acrobatic display showing that, even with the handicap of having only two driven wheels, a well-sorted 911 can beat Lancer Evolutions and other four wheel-drive machinery on …
Continue to the full articleRally Mechanics Install This Porsche’s Engine In A Field, In Africa, In Just 12-Minutes
At the start of the recent East African Safari Rally, Stig Blomqvist (along with co-driver Mattias Adielsson), had built up a healthy lead. They won the first two days, but woke up on the third day to an equally unhealthy engine. The supporting Tuthill Porsche rally squad was forced to get the engine and transmission swapped out of the car for a …
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