Porter Press has just released a new book detailing the full career history of the most successful Porsche 962 – chassis 011.

While the 962 and 962C won twice at Le Mans and over 50 times in IMSA races in America, also winning races and titles in Germany and Japan, chassis 962 011 – the car featured in this book – was the most successful of the 19 works Porsche 962s built.

Porsche sports car specialist, Serge Vanbockryck, has created an authoritative book telling 011’s entire story, embracing 46 races and 9 victories during a five-year career that saw it compete at the sharp end in Europe, America and Japan.

About Porsche 962-011

As well as winning the 1989 ADAC Supercup in the hands of Bob Wollek, 962 011 scored the Porsche 956/962 series’ 39th and final world championship race victory, beating the dominant Sauber-Mercedes at Dijon. It then spent four more seasons criss-crossing the Atlantic between 1990–93, to race in the IMSA Championship in America and the Interserie in Europe.

All of 962 011’s racing exploits are explained in detail and its drivers receive in-depth profiles, including Bob Wollek, Henri Pescarolo, Hurley Haywood, Jean-Louis Ricci, Danny Sullivan, Gianpiero Moretti, Manuel Reuter, Bernd Schneider, John Paul Jr and Chip Robinson. The full history of 011 is outlined in exhaustive technical detail, recording every test and every race with all available data, from fuel consumption figures to pitstop times.

About the author

Serge Vanbockryck has been studying and documenting the racing and test data of the 200+ Porsche 956s and 962s, their derivatives and their immediate successors since the late 1980s, making him perhaps the world’s foremost historian on the subject. This lifelong passion has included dozens of interviews with Porsche decision-makers, engineers, managers and drivers, and countless hours researching every conceivable period document at Porsche’s corporate archives in Stuttgart.

Decades of deep diving has previously produced three other acclaimed publications from Porter Press International: Ultimate Works Porsche 956 – The Definitive History (2019, two volumes) and Ultimate Works Porsche 962 – The Definitive History (2022, three volumes). The 962 book earned Serge the Motorworld Buchpreis 2023 in Germany. A previous ‘Great Cars’ book, TWR-Porsche WSC95 – The Autobiography of WSC001 was awarded the Ehrenpreis of the Motorworld Buchpreis in 2024

Porsche 962/88 – The Autobiography of 962 011 is available from Porter Press priced at £69.