Porsche Junioren
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The Porsche Junioren (German: Porsche Junioren) are a team of young racing drivers, employed by Porsche and driving for various private teams, as Porsche officially retired from factory racing after winning the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans overall with the Porsche 911 GT1.
Porsche supports its customer teams not only with race cars, but also voluntarily with talented young race drivers, who drive in many race series worldwide and furthermore support the advancement of the race cars. Porsche gives its works drivers room for improvement and advancement with contracts lasting for several years. To be a Porsche works driver means to have a full-time job, participating in up to 25 races a year, among them many endurance races, and often in different race car models.
The six drivers are:
Timo Bernhard (overall winner 2003 24 Hours of Daytona)
Emmanuel Collard- Romain Dumas
- Marc Lieb
Patrick Long- Sascha Maassen
- The UPS Porsche junior drivers in Porsche Supercup
In 2005, Porsche has resumed a factory effort, with the Porsche RS Spyder that is raced in the American Le Mans by Penske Racing.
[edit] Results
The 2006 24 Hours Nürburgring was won by Lucas Luhr / Timo Bernhard / Mike Rockenfeller and Marcel Tiemann on a Porsche 911 GT3-MR.
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