Christophorus – The Porsche Magazine

An all-electric drive with maximum efficiency. A team whose success is nearly unrivaled. Four brilliant minds from the former LMP team at the top. That’s how Porsche is starting its first Formula E season.

November 13, 1994, is a special date in the history of motorsports. On this day, China held its first international race. At the time, the Communist regime was still striving to bolster its global profile. Spectacular races were expected to help. The historic race was held not in Beijing or Shanghai, but in Zhuhai on the South China Sea. Once a fishing village, the city had been designated a special economic zone and by the 1980s had grown to a population of over one million.

Nürburgring, twenty-four-hour race, May 15/16, 2010. The best lap time of the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid is by no means surprising: eight minutes, 35.393 seconds.

Erling Henningstad from Norway is one of the world’s first twenty thousand people interested in owning a Porsche Taycan. What prompts the wish to buy a car that you know virtually nothing about — except for the fact that it’s a Porsche?

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Woodstock, Concorde, moon landing: in 1969 not even the sky is the limit anymore. Many western societies are shaking off the old to make way for new endeavors. With the 917 and the 914, Porsche presents two cars that could hardly be more different. How did it all come to pass?

The world’s first car race started in Paris 125 years ago. In December of 2019 Neel Jani will enter the first Formula E race in Porsche’s history. Then as now, it’s about the future of motorsports.

The members of the R Gruppe in California have been indulging their special passion for Porsche for twenty years—and neither the weather nor other people’s opinions make a shred of difference.

There’s no instruction manual for getting started in the world of motorsports. Karting is one possibility. The Porsche Racing Experience is another.

For Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, there are two types of jewelry: one tells the time and in the other it flies by. The head of Swiss watchmaker Chopard likes to tinker with Porsche gems—whether for the Mille Miglia or just an ordinary Sunday.

August Achleitner is the man behind the new Porsche 911, the finale and crowning achievement of his career. A portrait that becomes surprisingly personal on the drive from Zuffenhausen to Weissach.

The new Porsche 911 explores the Turracher Höhe pass. Previously one of the most difficult alpine passages and torture for winter tires, it now offers nothing but pleasure and a sense of freedom fueled by the mind in motion.