Motor Sport Magazine Specials

The authoritative voice of motor racing since 1924 covers the entire motor racing scene. In these Special Editions, the team digs into the archives to give exclusive insight, rare photographic footage, detailed race reports, and a unique take on the subject matter; from world-class drivers through to iconic car marques, and also how some of these real-life stories have been adapted for the big screen.

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Motor Sport Magazine Specials

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD • For fifty years Porsche has sought to conquer nearly every motor sport discipline there is. Usually it succeeded. Gavin Conway is your guide

PORSCHE HEAVEN • These 962s and a 956 from a private Group C collection are steeped in motor-racing history, yet they have never been photographed together before. Andrew Frankel gets up close to the liveried leviathans that lit up Le Mans, IMSA and global endurance racing in the 1980s

How the 956 transformed into the 962 • IMSA regulatons called for a few design tweaks

Driving the ultimate factory Porsche 962C • The superlatives flow from Andrew Frankel as he recalls his trackday at a chilly Silverstone in the racer that finished second in the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours. And what a car it is…

1962 FRENCH GRAND PRIX GURNEY GETS IT GOING • Despite some tentative pre-war efforts, Porsche struggled to break through in Formula 1. Until it paired Dan Gurney with the 804

Dan Gurney and Porsche • It looked lucky, but Porsche’s first F1 win was the result of huge work behind the scenes

DEREX BELL • Britain’s most successful Le Mans racer, who became an icon for the German giant on the global stage

MISSION POSSIBLE • Does this phenomenal-looking, electric powered Porsche concept herald the arrival of a new breed of track cars? Andrew Frankel heads to California to experience the future

LUNCH WITH… JACKY ICKX • He may be his own man, but Ickx doesn’t like discussing his own achievements, preferring instead to acknowledge the efforts of those around him. But all those Le Mans wins, those grand prix heroics in the wet – they can’t be ignored

PORSCHE’S PARADIGM SHIFT • The 911 took over where the 356 left off and, as Bill Boddy explains, in the late-1960s Porsche offered a model for almost any purpose

PAUL NEWMAN • There were no airs and graces when he first entered a motor racing paddock for his second act. Quite the opposite, in fact, as Gary Watkins explains

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION • Le Mans 1979 was supposed to be a fight between Porsche’s factory prototypes, but it became a battle between two hobbled 935s, one shared by a Hollywood superstar. Gary Watkins tells the story

Heard the one about the Hollywood car collector? • An American superstar comedian has built up a priceless collection of Newman’s cars – and it’s no laughing matter, he tells Samarth Kanal

BEST OF THE BEST • The Porsche 917 took many forms across its gloriously successful journey into the hearts of racing fans. But one version stands out above the others. Andrew Frankel got behind the wheel of its greatest evolution, the monstrous Can-Am 917/30

The Porsche 917 through the ages • What has become one of Porsche’s most iconic models never stayed the same for long. Over its five-year lifespan, the 917 took many forms

RICHARD ATTWOOD • He may not have been the outright most successful, but he was certainly the first when it came to the Porsche 917

HULKENBERG NICO • There are pleasing echoes of the past in F1 star Nico Hülkenberg racing at Le Mans this year. But the real novelty for him is that, for once, he will enter a race as a true contender to win it

Porsche’s breeding ground • How the Carrera Cup is promoting the next generation of sports car talent

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