Book: Porsche Racing Moments (Rainer W. Schlegelmilch)

Porsche Racing Moments

by Rainer W. Schlegelmilch

• Language: English
• Year of publication: 2025
• Publisher: TASCHEN-Verlag
• Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
• ISBN: 978-3-7544-0133-0
• Number of pages: 356 pp
• Dimensions: approx. 37 x 31 x 3.8 cm
• Weight approx. 4kg

In 1962, Rainer W. Schlegelmilch took to the racetrack for the first time - the 1,000 kilometres on the Nürburgring. A lifelong passion for Porsche and racing was ignited and still burns today.

This captivating book begins in 1963 and invites you into another time and another world with breathtaking photographs. It is a personal photographic journey through the history of Porsche endurance racing, from Le Mans to the Targa Florio and Spa-Francorchamps to Monza. Schlegelmilch tells fascinating stories of the race tracks in his visual language and short texts.

In this volume, the cars are the heroes - page after page, he documents his deep admiration for the vehicles and their legendary design. From the custom-built prototypes from the 1960s - the 550, 718, RS and RSK models - to the powerful 907 and 908, to the most iconic racing cars of all time, the 917, the 962 and of course the timeless Porsche 911, this is Schlegelmilch's photographic declaration of love to his personal Porsche Racing Moments.

He pays tribute to the cars through his unique zoom technique and captures the tremendous speed of the racing cars in mesmerising images. That's why his colleagues called him the Zoom Master. Whether in black and white or in colour - you can feel the pull of the cars racing past.

This book is for true Porsche enthusiasts, but it's about more than just cars. From the shots of well-rehearsed teams to the racing drivers engrossed in conversation, from the oil-smeared hands of the mechanics working on the engine to the cracked asphalt - Schlegelmilch takes you into the real world of motorsport: behind the glamour and into the dusty, petrol and oil-scented universe of racing.