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Editor: Adam Tait Email: gtp.ed@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor: Lee Caple Contributors: Dan Bevis, Chris Frosin, Ben Barry, Marc Urbano, Kieron Fennelly, Richard Holdsworth, Shane O’Donoghue, Keith Seume, Andy Tipping, Dan Bevis, Richard Gooding, Iain Camer
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Sabine Schmitz: 1969-2021
Sabine Schmitz, racing driver, Queen of the Nordschleife and Top Gear presenter, has passed away at the age of just 51 after a long battle with cancer. For the opening round of the Nürburgring Endurance Series, nearly every team honoured Sabine with
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Under The Hammer
The 911 GT3 Touring, built from 2017-19, will forever live in Porsche folklore as one of the all-time great ideas. All the stellar hardware of the eyewateringly good GT3, wrapped up in a subtle body that you could drive to the theatre in without pull
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• 996 TURBO BUYING GUIDE • THE ROAD TO REIMS • PORSCHE CLUB GB 356 B • TAYCAN DESIGN WORK • 991 SPEEDSTER FIRST DRIVE • 928 S vs 944 TURBO • 993 CARRERA RS • 912 DESIGN AND PRODUCTION • THE BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK • 911 TARGA RESTORATION • CAR PHOTOG
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Italian Renaissance
If you mention the name Zagato to car cognoscenti, it conjures up a range of very graceful and beautiful sports cars, most of them sporting Alfa Romeo and Lancia insignia. The Italian carrozzeria has collaborated with other marques of course – most n
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The Numbers Man
Zaur Ezhaev is a numbers man. As a graduate of Russian Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University and now a top-level banker – numbers are his daily diet. Yet one stands out above all others – 23, the number of Porsches that grace his gar
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996 Carrera
Last month’s introductory piece outlined some of the work items on the horizon for the 996 as it transitioned from its previous gentle life into one of more regular use. Some of these were standard maintenance jobs addressing common weak points on th
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Super Fly
On average, Porsche has taken around three seconds off the 911 GT3’s Nürburgring time every year for the last 22 years. Modest increments, perhaps, but ones that allow the new 992 to lap almost one whole minute faster than the original 996 - 7min 56.
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Aussie Grit
Anyone who has given a more than a cursory glance at TV coverage of a Formula 1 motor race can’t help being drawn to the glimpses of the “behind the scenes” in the garage and the frenetic work to get the car out on the track. Gone are the days when a
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Sounds Of The Sixties
There’s a theory that’s oft abounded in creaky corners of the internet that one day we’re going to run out of songs. “There are only so many notes, and so many sequences in which to play those notes,” these troubled worriers proclaim. “We’re already
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Blood Orange
An early development car which despite having full FIA homologation, was never used in competition, chassis 143 0137 was spotted some years ago by early Porsche specialist Mick Pacey. “I had known of this car for a while and was certain that this one
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Porsche Fia World Endurance Championship (wec) Driver Line-up
Frédéric Makowiecki (France), Gianmaria Bruni (Italy) and Richard Lietz (Austria), will be driving the #91 911 RSR at Portimão and 24 Hours of Le Mans. While the #92 car will be driven by Neel Jani (Switzerland), Kévin Estre (France) and Michael Chri
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1982 911 Sc Targa
Two passions of mine, cars and dogs. What’s not to love? Working for myself, I took my white staffy Bobo everywhere with me. He was my ‘bit of hot stuff’ in the seat next to me. He looked so handsome, hanging out of the passenger window with his fron
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Winning Streak
Late last year, Porsche announced its return to the top-flight of the World Endurance Championship from 2023, with the aim of adding to its record-breaking tally of 19 Le Mans victories. The process of developing the new LMDh racecar is in its early
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Le Mans Or Bust
For years, Porsche had contested FIA sports car events with machines that were largely – or more correctly, loosely – based on their road cars. Historically there had been no problem with this for as far back as 1976, Porsche had been dominant in Gro
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New Taycan Cross Turismo
Porsche has announced its first all-electric offroad model, the Taycan Cross Turismo. Like the Taycan, the Cross Turismo has an electric drivetrain with 800-volt architecture. Aiding its off-road capability is all-wheel drive and adaptive air suspens
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Brit Nick Tandy On Winning Le Mans 2015 With Nico Hulkenberg And Earl Bamber – Porsche’s First Since 1998
‘To everyone else in the paddock, ours was the third car, but we had the same opportunity, we knew we could do it. I first thought we could win just before midnight. Nico was in the car, and we were making time. I thought “now’s the time to turn the
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Zagato’s Modern Carrera Commission
Even before the Sanction Lost programme 356s, the Zagato workshop was no stranger to Porsche. In a similar way to the birth of the original Storez 356 Speedster, in 2013 the carrozzeria was commissioned by Swiss Porsche collector and ex-racing driver
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Parting Shot
The 996 Targa was introduced in December 2001 alongside the Coupé and Cabriolet. Like the 993 it had an electrically operated glass roof, but now with a surface area of more than 1.5 square metres. A record amount of glass for a 911. It was also the
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Progressive Steps
Apparently it’s necessary to grow up at some point. No, we’re not overly enamoured with the concept either, but there comes a juncture when you have to accept the linear nature of time and come to terms with your fate, otherwise you’re just going to
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Welcome
I’ve always loved the idea of a 996. A manual Carrera in a discreet metallic would be perfect for regular use. Of course, a GT3 RS is the ultimate tool, but with high values a GT3 will provide most of the enjoyment for much less outlay. Ben Barry jum
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Type 930
Despite considerable motorsport success, by the 1970s, Porsche road cars were not seen as equal to those from the truly exotic supercar manufacturers such as Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini. That all changed with the arrival of the Porsche 911 Turb
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996 Gt3 1999-2004
In 1995 Porsche decided to concentrate its racing efforts on the GT3 class. This would be less expensive than continuing to pursue GT2 where the 600bhp 993 GT2 Evo had reached the end its development possibilities in the face of new generations of mi
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Model Management
You generally buy a Porsche for one of two reasons; as an investment or out of a sheer passion for the marque. 33 year-old Kirill Vladimirovich, who is the CEO of a large development group in Charlotte, North Carolina, had no real interest in the mak
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Parting Shot
In 1967 Rico Steinemann, Dieter Spoerry, Jo Siffert and Charles Vögele drove this 911 R to five world endurance records on the steeply banked Monza circuit. This included; 72 and 96 hours, 15,000 and 10,000 miles. They broke all four leaving the fina
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Alex Manos
I had an amazing opportunity when I uncovered an original numbersmatching 1957 Porsche 1600 Speedster that had been tucked away in a garage for decades: that classic shape, archetypal, almost art deco in its curving design. I heard about it through t
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Under The Hammer
SUBSCRIBE TO GT PORSCHE SEE PAGE 72 FOR DETAILS The 993 represented a turning point in the 911’s very essence: this generation, built from 1994-98, was the last to feature an air-cooled engine. It was all-change when the water-cooled 996 arrived to r
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