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Manthey Porsche picks R not RSR for Nürburg 24

May 15, 2012

This weekend is the 2012 Nürburgring 24-Hour race. I’m there with Falken Tyres Europe and in the garage with Porsche works driver Wolf Henzler, Peter Dumbreck, Martin Ragginger and Sebastian Asch. As 170 cars take to the most famous racetrack in the world for the 2012 24-Hour, I’ll be attempting some live Porsche reportage through [...]

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Classic Porsche Blog RSS Feed Address Update

May 15, 2012

Here’s a quick post to let you know of changes to the Classic Porsche Blog RSS feed address. The new address is here: Classic Porsche Blog RSS feed. What’s an RSS feed? RSS is well explained here: it’s an aggregated feed of the latest posts from the blog. By picking up the RSS feed, you [...]

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Porsche Phalanx for Mille Miglia

May 11, 2012

Porsche is sending shades of 1953′s “downright phalanx” to this year’s Mille Miglia. Mille Miglia – literally a thousand miles – is for cars approved by the FIA or FIVA that would have raced in period, so up to 1957, when the 24th and final Mille was run. From the press release, it sounds like [...]

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EB Motorsport joins Mighty Motor Media

May 8, 2012

I’m excited by the latest arrival to the fans of Ferdinand Magazine and the Mighty Motor Media digital Porsche promotions stable: Yorkshire-based EB Motorsport. Parent company EB Engineering is a rare beast nowadays: a family firm with a fifty-year history of UK manufacturing and no plans to send production overseas. EB makes high quality composite [...]

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Scotsman Dumbreck in Porsche Honda Hot Tub (Spa)

May 3, 2012

Great Porsche racing drivers are key to the cult of Porsche, so I had a good phone call with Falken Porsche driver Peter Dumbreck (below) yesterday about various things. One subject discussed was the 6 Hours of Spa, which Peter is racing this weekend as part of his 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign. Porsche [...]

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New Tuthill Porsche Weapon wins in Belgium

May 1, 2012

Glenn Janssens leads the Belgian Historic Rally Championship, following victory in a Tuthill Porsche 911 on last weekend’s Wallonie Rally. Wallonie was the third round of the Belgian Historic Rally Championship. Janssens’ victory is the driver’s second podium this season after finishing second on the opening round. Janssens and co-driver Tom de Geetere stormed to [...]

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