We’ve got competitors coming to my beautiful town, my family’s home for the last few decades, from all over the world – even one from New Zealand.” Look at this – we’ve got Luftgekühlt here in little Zell am See. We’ve already been blown away by what’s happening this year. I guess the motor sport community is quite a tight one, and always looking for cool new things … We didn’t expect all that many people to turn up, so were really surprised when a few thousand did. Eighteen months later, the first GP Ice Race happened. Then we met the mayor, the people from the local tourism authority and the Austrian Motorsport Federation and it all started to come together. We started by talking to Hans-Joachim Stuck and Richie Lietz, asking what it would take to hold the race, whether people would come and so on. I knew a little about the races that had been held here years ago – but not much and I couldn’t think why it had been so long since they had been last held. “And then, one time when we were in Zell am See to do some skiing, we were looking at the spiked tyres of my father’s 550 from when it competed in ice racing. During our time at university, we could never work out why it seemed like so few of our generation were as into motor sport as we were,” he explains. “The GP Ice Race is the baby of a friend of mine, Vinzenz Greger, and me.
The folks behind Luftgekühlt hosted an evening party, where Ferdi had these words to say about how the whole GP Ice Race thing came into being last year. The 26-year-old Ferdinand “Ferdi” Porsche was a major driving force behind the event, hoping to create the kind of enthusiasm for this event that his ancestors have created for the Porsche brand. Porsche has been seen in the company of a good friend Princess Gabriella of Leiningen nee Homey, the ex-wife of the fourth Aga Khan.Last weekend at Zell am See in Austria the second of what will hopefully be an annual ice racing party, GP Ice Race, went off without a hitch. Porsche filed for a separation in Mid-March 2023 after living apart from his wife Claudia for two years due to his wife's dementia. Porsche remarried Claudia Hubner in 2019 after a 15 year relationship. Wolfgang Porsche lives in Zell am See in Austria. Porsche was married to the director and screenplay writer Susanne Bresser from 1988 until their divorce in 2008. Porsche also sits on the supervisory board of separately listed Volkswagen AG.
Porsche is a member of board of directors of Porsche Automobil Holding, along with Josef Michael Ahorner, Stefan Piëch, Peter Daniell Porsche, Hans Michel Piech, Ferdinand Oliver Porsche and Hans-Peter Porsche. In 2008, Porsche also joined the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG. In 2007, Porsche became Chairman of both Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE. Two years later, he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Porsche AG.Īdministrative and supervisory positions After qualifying, Porsche established his own business, importing Yamaha motorbikes to Austria. Early life Īfter schooling, Porsche trained as a metalworker, and eventually went on to obtain a degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His oldest brother is Ferdinand (Butzi) Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911. He is the youngest son of Ferdinand (Ferry) Porsche and Dorothea Reitz. He is a shareholder and chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE as well as of Porsche AG. Wolfgang Heinz Porsche (born Stuttgart ) is a German-Austrian manager and a member of the Porsche family.
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