Issue 392 | Laptime

What exactly are the qualities of a top-notch champagne? An excursion to Moët & Chandon.

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.

After thirty-one years in Australia, Viktor Grahser returned to his native Austria with one suitcase and three Porsche 356s. He broke a hole in the wall of his house and pushed one Porsche into his living room—while the other two sat in a shipping container, waiting in vain for restoration. Eleven years after Grahser died, one 356 Roadster has now been completely restored. And has found a distinguished owner.

Californian Lisa Taylor has a bit of a thing for Porsche models in vibrant colors. Whether it’s yellow, pink, or blue—it had better be bright!

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.

Zuffenhausen, 1938. The office of Ferdinand Porsche in the newly built Porsche plant, now known as Plant 1. Tidy, almost spartan. Not a bit of decoration on the walls.

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.

Boston wants to achieve full climate neutrality and is charting a completely new course to get there. The city won’t ban cars from its center. They’ll still be welcome in the future — if they’re electric.

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?

Since 2017 Porsche has been active in Tel Aviv to discover talents and ideas for the mobility of the future — together with start-up scouts such as Sigalit Klimovsky.