{"id":375970,"date":"2020-09-25T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.supercars.net\/blog\/?page_id=375970"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:52:08","slug":"porsche-race-car-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/porsche\/porsche-model-list\/porsche-race-car-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Race Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Porsche Race Cars<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Porsche Racing &amp; Competition Models<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Lots of automakers like to brag about how their \u201cracing heritage\u201d informs their production vehicles, but nobody does it like Porsche. This page is a celebration of Porsche&#8217;s motorsports heritage and the cars that make this company one of the most dominant players in the racing world. This is the ultimate guide to Porsche race cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #be1f2e;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-48074\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">Model Deep-Dives<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">&nbsp;\/ <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #be1f2e;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-67606\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">Non-911 Based Cars<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #be1f2e;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-37077\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">Formula 1,2 &amp; Indy<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #be1f2e;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-57818\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">911 Based Cars<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #be1f2e;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-59867\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: DM Sans, sans-serif\">Featured Motorsport Stories<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/porsche-race-cars.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Every Porsche Race Car Ever Made<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Lots of automakers like to brag about how their \u201cracing heritage\u201d informs their production vehicles, but nobody does it like Porsche. Porsche started racing with lightweight versions the 356 but things really took off with the&nbsp;\u201cgiant killer\u201d 550 Spyder.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dedicated race cars like the 550, 718, RS, and RSK models were the focus of Porsche\u2019s race program through the mid-1960s .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Porsche first expanded its 8 cylinder flat engine to 2.2 liters in&nbsp;the 907, then&nbsp;developed the 908&nbsp;with full three liters in 1968. Based on this 8 cylinder flat engine the 4.5 liter flat 12 917 was introduced in 1969.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Porsche 917&nbsp;is considered one of the most iconic racing cars of all time and gave Porsche their first&nbsp;24 Hours of Le Mans&nbsp;win. The 917 went on to destroy the competition in the cutthroat Can-Am racing series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Porsche has had success with 911 racing variants since the beginning of that models history, winning the Monte Carlo rally. In the 1970s Porsche won the&nbsp;Targa Florio, Daytona and Sebring with the&nbsp;Porsche 911 Carrera RSR. The 911 also went on to win Le Mans in 1979 in the&nbsp;Porsche 935. Since then the 911 has campaigned both by Porsche and by privateers in thousands of motorsports series with great success. Even today, Porsche churns out specific racing models that enthusiastic buyers can snap up and drive in global races in addition to its formal race programs it competes in.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Porsche Racing Cars &#8211; Non-911 Based Racers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/The-Porsche-904-Story-History-scaled-1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Non-911 Porsche Race Cars<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Porsche Formula 1, Formula 2 &amp; Indy Cars<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tf-indy90-1280x720-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">F1, F2 &amp; Indy Porsche Race Cars<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Porsche Racing Cars &#8211; 911 Based Racers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/911-GT3-R-rennsport-scaled.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Porsche 911 Race Cars<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche Race Cars Porsche Racing &amp; Competition Models Lots of automakers like to brag about how their \u201cracing heritage\u201d informs their production vehicles, but nobody does it like Porsche. This page is a celebration of Porsche&#8217;s motorsports heritage and the cars that make this company one of the most dominant players in the racing world. This is the ultimate guide to Porsche race cars. Model Deep-Dives&nbsp;\/ Non-911 Based Cars&nbsp;\/&nbsp;Formula 1,2 &amp; Indy&nbsp;\/&nbsp;911 Based Cars&nbsp;\/&nbsp;Featured Motorsport Stories Every Porsche Race Car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875452,"parent":338058,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-375970","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Porsche Race Cars - The Ultimate Guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ultimate guide to important Porsche race car ever made? 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