Meet the 917 concept study, complete with the same red and white Salzburg livery of the first 917 to win Le Mans. Porsche enlisted a small team of designers and engineers in 2014 to envision what ...

There aren’t many racing cars that are still relevant on track over a decade after their first outing. For Kremer Racing to enter a Porsche 917 in the 1981 running of the Le Mans 24, 12 years ...

This Porsche 917 was the star car of Steve McQueen's "Le Mans," a film in which the actor portrayed a factory Porsche driver racing in the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Piëch's Porsche 917 came to life only because the FIA changed the rules to prevent cars like it from existing. Ford's GT40 (and the Lola T70) proved to be so totally dominant at events like Le ...

The Porsche 917 may not be the most successful model in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but it’s definitely one of the most terrific cars to have ever raced at La Sarthe. You can always ...

Porsche tamed the car over the years, but in '71, one 917 hit 224.4 mph on the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans, which is very fast in a car where your shoes are the crumple zone.

Porsche 917/30 sells for $4.4 million at Gooding auction at Amelia Island. ... Porsche, fresh off its first overall Le Mans victories in 1970 and '71, ...

Porsche presented the 917 to the world 50 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show. Today it's celebrating by showing us an absolutely jaw-dropping concept car. Only this single photo is available now ...

For, you see, this isn’t a Porsche 917 at all, but a copy of the car that opens up to reveal a slot car racetrack inspired by the Circuit de la Sarthe, the racetrack where the car became a ...

Porsche's success continued to 1971. The 917 won eight of ten races in the World Championship of Makes and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. On the Circuit de la Sarthe, drivers Gijs van Lennep and Helmut ...

So they (the Porsche team lead at that point by John Wyer) figured, ‘We got to figure this thing out.” Mark Vaughn The very 917 Mraz sat in just before I talked with her.

One thing that the 917 and 918 have in common: They’re surprisingly easy to drive fast. ... 1970 Porsche 917K vs. 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder: We Drive and Compare Two Icons.