Porsche Racing Cars: 1953 to 1975

Detailed year-by-year coverage of Porsche’s top class racing exploits, accompanied by over 650 excellent & evocative photos, from 1953 up to 1975.

The words “Porsche” and “racing” go hand in hand.

This book follows Porsche’s year-by-year exploits in top flight motor racing, and looks in detail at the purge competition cars that brought the German marque such immense success in motorsport, and, with it, worldwide acclaim.

This volume begins with the story of the giant-killing 500 Spyders of 1953 vintage, and takes the reader through a series of racing models, including the glorious 917, up to 1975 via contemporary photography and deeply researched, extremely readable text from an acknowledged Porsche authority.

A second volume covers 1976 on.