Its successor from 1957 onwards, the Porsche 718, commonly known as the RSK was even more successful.

The 718 was a development of the already successful Porsche 550A with improvements being made to the body work and suspension.

Due the central location of the steering box, the 718 was easily converted to single seater specification and Porsche made their F2 debut with victories at Reims and Avus in 1958.

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1. 5-litre Porsche 718

Gurney was a factory Porsche driver at the time, but the 1600-cc Porsche 718 was considered too small and slow for what amounted to a sprint race on a very fast course.

The Porsche 804 was a Formula One racing car produced in, following the 718 and 787.

He also won the 1960 German Grand Prix with a Porsche 718, a race held for Formula Two in preparation for the rule change of 1961.

Always a Porsche devotee ( he only drove two World Championship races in anything else ) he was a familiar sight at both Championship and non-Championship races in his orange Porsche 718, bought from the Rob Walker Racing Team.

Driving the Porsche 718, the car suddenly veered off the track at the infamous Bergwerk corner.

Carel Godin de Beaufort's Porsche 718 single-seater, in Dutch racing orange.

In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.

Project C, which has come to be known as the Lada 2116 or Lada Silhouette, is a family car jointly developed with input from both Porsche and Renault, is intended to finally replace the Classic models.

In training for that race, the late Stefan Bellof set the all-time lap record for the Nordschleife in his Porsche 956, which is still unbeaten at 6: 11. 13, or over on average ( partially because no major racing has taken place there since 1984 ).

The Porsche 928 is a sports-GT car that was sold by Porsche AG of Germany from 1978 to 1995.

This model is also sometimes referred to as the " Ferry Porsche Edition " because his signature was embroidered into the front seats.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.

Porsche SE is headquartered in Zuffenhausen, a city district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg and is owned by the Piëch and Porsche families, and Qatar Holdings, through the Qatar Investment Authority ( 10 %).

Porsche is the owner of Dr. Ing.

During December 2009, Porsche SE lost control of Porsche Zwischenholding GmbH, which as a result is now a joint venture between Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG.

As of July 5, 2012, Volkswagen is to acquire the 50. 1 per cent in Porsche's capital that it doesn't already hold from holding company Porsche SE for € 4. 46 billion plus one Volkswagen share.

h. c. F. Porsche AG ( which stands for Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft ), is responsible for the actual production and manufacture of the Porsche automobile line.

Porsche Engineering Group also helped Harley-Davidson design the Revolution 60-degree v-twin water-cooled engine and gearbox that is used in their V-Rod motorcycle.

In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant ( Werk 2 ) across the street from Reutter Karosserie ; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse.

There are many Porsche racing series around the world.

The 924 has its own racing series in the UK run by the BRSCC and Porsche Racing Drivers Association.

In addition, Porsche installed manually adjustable lightweight Recaro racing seats rather than the standard power-operated leather buckets ( also manufactured by Recaro ), a revised suspension system optimized and lowered by 20 mm for possible track use, 17-inch wheels ( also slightly wider to accommodate wider tyres ) rather than the 16-inch as found on the Coupe and wider tires, 225 front and 255 rears rather than 205 and 245 respectively.

Increasing success with its racing and road cars brought Porsche orders for over 10, 000 units in 1964, and by the time 356 production ended in 1965 approximately 76, 000 had been produced.

Paul was also associated with Bill Freeman ’ s established Porsche racing team which allowed both Paul and Bill to compete in S. C. C. A.

The prestige of Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lotus, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Aston Martin derives in part from success in sports car racing and the World Sportscar Championship.

In Germany, domestic production based racing was largely dominated by BMW, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, although sports car / GT racing gradually became eclipsed by touring cars and the initially sports car based Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft gradually evolved into the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.

Porsche started to evolve a line of sports prototypes from the late 1950s ; noted for their toughness and reliability they started to win in races of attrition such as the Targa Florio and as they grew bigger ( via the Porsche 910 to the Porsche 908 and finally the Porsche 917 ) the Stuttgart marque became first a competitor for overall wins and then came to dominate sports car racing – both they and Mercedes have made intermittent returns to the top level of the sport through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Porsche 917 is one of the most iconic racing cars.

Powerful prototypes ( effectively pure-bred two-seater racing cars with no real link to production vehicles ) started to appear as the 1960s progressed, with worldwide battles between Ferrari, Ford, Porsche, Lotus, Alfa Romeo and Matra as well as other more specialist marques running on into the early 1970s.

Group 4 Grand Touring Cars and Group 5 Special Production Cars became the premier form of " sports car " racing from 1976, with prototypes going into a general decline apart from Porsche 936 domination at Le Mans and a lower-key series of races for smaller two-litre Group 6 prototypes.

The GT1 class was for the purebred supercars and purpose-built race cars, such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 – while the first two were a derivatives of roadgoing sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes.

The signature light blue and orange color scheme associated with its Ford GT40 and Porsche 917 is one of the most famous corporate racing colors and has been replicated by other racing teams sponsored by Gulf.

In Monaco he returned to racing with a guest drive in the Porsche Supercup race, an event he dominated.

Ferdinand Porsche used this setup in the early 20th century in racing cars, effectively inventing the series-hybrid arrangement.

The Porsche 917 endurance racing car ( introduced in 1969, for the Sport category ) was powered by an air-cooled flat-12.

He would compete in as many as 62 races in a single year and drove 84 different makes of car over the course of his racing career, including Lotus, Vanwall, Maserati, Jaguar, Ferrari and Porsche.

In 1982 he attempted his first full season of racing, driving a Porsche 935 to dominate the 1982 Australian GT Championship.

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