EventPorsche Rennsport Reunion is more than the greatest collection of Porsche race cars past, present and future, it is about the people who found ways to make the dreams come true. The Legends of 75 years of Porsche motorsport history.
Dick Barbour
1980 IMSA GT Champion Dick Barbour made his mark as a driver with the Porsche 935 – three consecutive Le Mans class wins and 12 Hours of Sebring overall wins in 1978-1980. As team owner, he secured the 2000 ALMS GT Championship, the Porsche 911 GT3 R dominating the field.
Derek Bell MBE
Derek Bell first raced as a Porsche works driver at the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. His record at the iconic race is truly staggering: five overall wins, four of which were with Porsche. He also won the 1985 and 1986 World Sportscar Championship with the brand.
Jon Bennett
Jon Bennett founded CORE Autosport in 2010. After winning the IMSA Lites Championship in their debut season, they went on to achieve championship success in the Prototype Challenge, GTLM and LMP3 categories – as well as race wins in the top-level Prototype class.
Joerg Bergmeister
Former Porsche works driver and current brand ambassador and development driver, Bergmeister is one of the most successful sports car drivers of recent times. He’s recorded wins at all the major endurances races and has won the ALMS championship a record total of five times.
Timo Bernhard
Timo Bernhard has won championships at every level of sports car racing in the Porsche pyramid: he’s won in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, ALMS GT, ALMS LMP2 and WEC. He’s also won all the major endurance races and set the Nordschleife lap record in a Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo.
Thierry Boutsen
Belgian driver Thierry Boutsen is a Formula 1 race winner and veteran of endurance racing with multiple major race wins for Porsche – five of his 10 Le Mans starts were with the brand. A class win in the 911 GT1 in 1996 marked a fourth consecutive podium finish for Boutsen.
Kevin Buckler
Kevin Buckler is a Porsche Cup winner and founder of The Racer’s Group. With Porsche factory backing, TRG won its class at Le Mans in 2002 and overall at the 2003 24 Hours of Daytona. With many championship titles, TRG is the winningest team in Grand-Am Rolex Series history.
Jim Busby
A Le Mans class winner (on street tires) and a highly respected member of many communities in the motor sport world, Busby founded the renowned Jim Busby Racing and proved to be a capable driver and brilliant engineer with a supreme talent for building unbeatable race cars.
Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis is a race car driver and Porsche Track Experience instructor. He started racing sports cars in the early 2000s, achieving many wins and podiums. In 2011, in the #59 Brumos Racing Porsche 911, he claimed the Grand-Am GT Series Championship title.
David Donohue
Le Mans class winner, Daytona overall winner and Porsche brand ambassador David Donohue has enjoyed a long, varied career in motor sport, with success in touring cars, NASCAR, prototypes and GT. He has also earned five class podiums from six entries at Pikes Peak.
Romain Dumas
In the words of Romain Dumas: “Endurance races are my profession; hillclimbs and rallies are my hobbies. All of it combined is my passion.” He’s a two-time Le Mans winner and ALMS LMP2 champion, and record breaker at both Pikes Peak and Goodwood Festival of Speed with the VW ID.R.
Rob Dyson
In 1974, Rob Dyson entered a race at Watkins Glen, and won it. By 1985, Dyson Racing moved up to endurance racing, with plenty of success in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Running two Porsche RS Spyders, Dyson Racing helped Porsche win the ALMS Manufacturers’ title in 2007 and 2008.
Chris Dyson
Chris Dyson is a Trans-Am National Series race car driver, running under his own CD Racing banner, and achieved back-to-back championships in 2021 and 2022. Prior to this, Dyson experienced great success driving for Dyson Racing, the team founded by his father, Rob Dyson.
John Fitzpatrick
John Fitzpatrick is regarded as one of the best Porsche racers of his era. At the wheel of the Kremer 911 S, he won five of the nine races of the first European GT Championship. In 1980 he took a class victory at Le Mans and clinched the IMSA GT Championship in a 935 K3.
George Follmer
George Follmer may retain his title as the oldest debutant in the modern era of Formula One forever, and his podium in a Porsche 956 at the 1986 Le Mans after returning from retirement is the stuff of legend – but it is for his exploits in Can-Am at the wheel of the mighty Porsche 917/10 that he will be remembered forever.
Elliot Forbes-Robinson
Elliot Forbes-Robinson started winning races in the late 60s. More than 40 years later he was still at it. His first was in 1969 with a 911 and by the late 70s he was in Can-Am, coming second in 1979. He won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 97 and 99, and secured a class win in 2000.
Hurley Haywood
A Porsche legend and one of the greatest endurance sports car racers of all time, Haywood’s tally of 10 victories at major endurance races is staggering: Five 24 Hours of Daytona (1973, 75, 77, 79, 91), three 24 Hours of Le Mans (77, 83, 94) and twice at the 12 Hours of Sebring (73 and 81).
Wolf Henzler
Despite an early career in open-wheelers, in 2000 Wolf Henzler moved to the Porsche Supercup, becoming champion in 2004. He became a Porsche works driver in 2008, taking the ALMS GT title. In 2010 he took a GT2 class win at Le Mans, and an overall win at the 24 Hours of Spa.
David Hobbs
David Hobbs is a British former race car driver and motorsports commentator. During a driving career that lasted more than three decades, Hobbs raced in a huge variety of categories: sports cars, touring cars, F1, Formula 5000, IndyCar, IMSA, Trans-Am, Can-Am and NASCAR.
Jacky Ickx
Ickx entered his first Grand Prix in 1966 and twice finished runner up in the World Championship. But more success came in sports cars. A six-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ickx took his first win in 1969 and his last in 1982, earning him the epithet Monsieur Le Mans.
Kevin Jeannette
Kevin Jeannette, founder and owner of Gunnar Racing, has a long involvement with Porsche. He began working with teams running 934s and 935s, later moving on to 962s. In 1990, Gunnar Racing built the first open-topped prototype to run in IMSA GTP—the Gunnar Porsche 966 Spyder.
Stefan Johansson
Stefan Johansson raced in F1 from 1983 through 1991, scoring 12 podium finishes. After F1, he moved into CART Champ Car. He first raced Porsche sports cars in the early 1980s. Johansson raced at Le Mans 15 times, taking overall victory in 1997 in the Joest Racing TWR Porsche WSC-95.
Willi Kauhsen
Willi Kauhsen became a Porsche works driver in 1968, winning the Marathon de la Route and 24 Hours of Spa in a factory 911. He came second at Le Mans in the 917 ‘Hippie car’ just two years later and competed in Interserie with the 917/10, recording four wins and 13 podiums.
Leh Keen
Leh Keen has twice won the Rolex GT championship and entered Le Mans three times with Porsche. In 2020, he set the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed achieved by a vehicle indoors – driving a Taycan Turbo S at 106.2 mph inside the New Orleans Convention Center.
Gérard Larrousse
Gérard Larrousse won the Tour de Corse for Porsche in 1969. Two years later he took overall victory at the Sebring 12 Hours and Nürburgring 1000km in the 917 K and 908/03. Larrousse twice came second at Le Mans for Porsche, finally winning the 24 Hours with Matra in 1973.
Marc Lieb
Lieb’s talent was spotted by Carrera Cup commentator Burkhard Bechtel, who persuaded Porsche to take a look at the Stuttgart local. In 2013, Lieb drove a 911 RSR to LMGTE-Pro victory at Le Mans, but his career high would be an overall Le Mans win in 2016 with the 919 Hybrid.
Rudi Lins
European hillclimb champion at just 23, Rudi Lins became a Porsche works driver for the International Championship of Makes in 1970. His best result was a podium finish at Le Mans in 1970, sharing a 908 Langheck with Helmut Marko against the far more powerful 917s.
Patrick Long
Luftgekühlt founder Pat Long is also a Porsche Brand Ambassador and competition advisor for Porsche Motorsport. Initially recruited as a Porsche Junior, Long has taken class wins at the big four endurance classics and won the Blancpain GT World Challenge America.
Arie Luyendyk
Arie Luyendyk found fame in single-seater racing in the 1990s. “The Flying Dutchman” won the Super Vee Championship in his debut year and was Indy Car Rookie of the Year in 1985. Luyendyk won the Indy 500 for the first time in 1990 with a record average speed of 185.9 mph.
Sascha Maassen
Sascha Maassen finished fourth in his first season of Porsche Supercup and won his class at Petit Le Mans in 1999, a feat he would repeat in 2000 as a Porsche factory driver. Maassen entered Le Mans six times with Porsche, taking two class wins and three more podiums.
Jochen Mass
Jochen Mass juggled 1970s Formula 1 with Touring and Sportscar championships, first driving for Porsche in 1976. He helped the factory dominate Group C throughout the 1980s, taking his last win for Porsche aboard the 962 at the 500 km of Kyalami in November 1987.
David Murry
David Murry drove Porsche’s LMP1-98 at Le Mans and won the World Challenge Championship in a 911 Turbo. He was also a regular for Porsche in ALMS and the Rolex GT Championship and recorded five podiums at the 12 Hours of Sebring and six at the 24 Hours of Daytona.
Jackie Oliver
In his single season with Porsche in 1971, London-born Jackie Oliver dominated the World Sportscar Championship, taking overall victories in the John Wyer 917 at Buenos Aires, Daytona, Monza, Spa and Zeltweg – all with fellow works driver Pedro Rodriguez.
David Piper
David Piper was one of the very first privateers to drive the 917, finishing second in class at the Nürburgring 1000km in May 1969. He won the Kyalami 9 Hours aboard his own example, chassis 010, and was instrumental in the creation of the Steve McQueen movie “Le Mans”.
Brian Redman
Brian Redman drove the 908 prototype to five wins in his first season with Porsche in 1969. Following a stint with Ferrari, he returned to privately entered 935s, winning the 12 Hours of Sebring and 24 Hours of Daytona in a racing career that stretched past the millennium.
Chip Robinson
Sharing a 962 with Al Holbert, Chip Robinson won the IMSA Camel GT Championship in 1987, enjoying overall victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the process. Robinson has also competed at Le Mans on several occasions, including with Joest Racing aboard a privateer 962 C.
Valentin Schaeffer
Valentin Schaeffer joined Porsche in 1955 as a mechanic. The Hungarian was soon involved in engine development – including the unit that would deliver Porsche’s single F1 win. In 1971, he was a key part of the team that turbocharged the 917’s flat-twelve, earning him the nickname ‘Turbo Valentin’.
Vern Schuppan
Australian Vern Schuppan reached a career high with Porsche in sports cars, winning Le Mans with the works team in a Group C 956 in 1983. Schuppan would go on to notch up many more wins and podiums in sports car racing with the 956 and 962, competing right into the 1990s.
Manfred Schurti
Motorcycle mechanic Manfred Schurti won his first race in Formula Vee in 1969, becoming World Champion in 1970. He became a Porsche factory driver in 1973 and was a works racer until 1981 – including nine Le Mans starts – driving the Carrera RSR, RSR Turbo, 935 and 924 GTP.
Norbert Singer
Joining Porsche as a graduate in 1970, Singer worked on the then-new 917. He later created the 935, Porsche’s most successful bespoke customer race car. But he is best known for designing the 956, a car that would take seven Le Mans victories and three World Championships.
Alwin Springer
Springer is a legend of the Porsche motorsport scene in North America, first overseeing the preparation of customer racing cars before being part of the 917 Can-Am campaign. In 1975 he opened Porsche performance specialist ANDIAL. In 1997, he became the first president of Porsche Motorsport North America.
Danny Sullivan
Kentucky-born Danny Sullivan honed his skills in single-seater racing, including F1, before returning to the US and Indy Car – becoming champion in 1988 with four race wins. Sullivan raced four times at Le Mans, finishing third overall in 1994 with the Porsche-entered Dauer 962.
Gijs van Lennep
Born near Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands, Gijs van Lennep was always drawn to racing. In 1971, he won Le Mans in commanding fashion, driving the Martini Racing 917 K with Helmut Marko and covering more than 5,000 km (3,107 miles), a record that stood for 39 years.
Mark Webber
Mark Webber became a household name during more than a decade in F1 and won nine Grands Prix with Red Bull. Leaving F1 in 2013, Webber became part of Porsche’s LMP1 program, developing and racing the 919 Hybrid in three consecutive years of the World Endurance Championship.
Jeff Zwart
A racer, rally driver, film-maker and photographer, Jeff Zwart famously learned to drive in his dad’s 901. A keen amateur racer, Zwart soon moved onto rallying, and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Zwart won the Open class there in 1994, the first of eight titles.
