Joest Racing

Germany Joest Racing
Founded1978
BaseWald-Michelbach, Germany
Team principal(s)Reinhold Joest
Former seriesWeatherTech SportsCar Championship
FIA World Endurance Championship
World Sportscar Championship
Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft
IMSA GT Championship
Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft
American Le Mans Series
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
Le Mans Series
Intercontinental Le Mans Cup
Noted driversGermany Frank Biela
Italy Rinaldo Capello
Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany Reinhold Joest
Denmark Tom Kristensen
Germany André Lotterer
Germany Klaus Ludwig
United Kingdom Allan McNish
Germany Manuel Reuter
Italy Emanuele Pirro
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
France Benoît Tréluyer
Germany Marco Werner
Germany "John Winter"
Teams'
Championships
6 ('12 WEC, '13 WEC, '00, '01, '02, '03 ALMS)
Drivers'
Championships
6 ('12 WEC, '13 WEC, '00, '01, '02, '03 ALMS)

Joest Racing is a German sports car racing team that was established in 1978 by former Porsche works racer Reinhold Joest. Their headquarters are in Wald-Michelbach, Germany.

Between 1998 and 2016, Joest Racing were strongly linked with Audi Sport GmbH and were responsible for assisting with development of their sports prototypes for participation at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, most notably the Audi R8, which scored a hat trick between 2000 and 2002.[1] Along with the Le Mans ventures, Audi and Joest Racing also won several teams' championships together in both the American Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Prior to their partnership with Audi, Joest Racing was primarily a Porsche team, winning four Le Mans races with them between 1984 and 1997.[2] Joest Racing have also assisted Mazda and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus with their DPi and Le Mans Hypercar efforts respectively.[3][4]

Early years

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As a combined driver/team owner, Reinhold Joest first began to race a Porsche 908/3 in the European Sportscar Championship, winning the driver's title. He then switched to Porsche 935s, winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1980. The team won the DRM back to back with driver Bob Wollek, in 1982 and 1983. During the 1982 season, whilst the Porsche 956 was only available to the works team, Joest adapted a roof onto a Porsche 936 to enter the Group C World Endurance Championship. They would race the car into the 1983 season until they took delivery of their 956 prior to Le Mans.

Racing history

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1984–1989: Early successes

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Joest Racing's Porsche 962 which they used in the IMSA GT Championship.

In 1984, in absence of the works team, Joest Racing would score the first of their fifteen wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Klaus Ludwig and Henri Pescarolo driving their "lucky #7" car a Porsche 956, chassis number 117. In 1985, the works team returned, and despite having little factory support, they defended their title with Ludwig, Paolo Barilla and incognito German businessman "John Winter" driving the #7 chassis number 117 again. This would make them the second team to score back to back wins with the same car, the other being JW Automotive whose Ford GT40 Mk.I won in 1968 and 1969. In 1986, 1988, and 1989 Joest won the ADAC Supercup title for teams and Wollek winning the drivers cup in 1989. They also took the Interserie title for drivers with Winter in 1985 and Bernd Schneider in 1991, and the teams title in 1991.

In 1989, FIA introduced the new 3.5 litre Formula One engine rule to Group C, which not many teams were happy about, because few, if any, such engines were available to privateer teams like Joest. The previous fuel economy based rules were gradually phased out in favour of short races with cars that were virtually two-seater Formula 1 cars; existing Group C cars such as Joest's Porsche 962s were given higher weights and lower fuel allocation to make them less competitive. The team would instead compete in the IMSA GTP category beginning in 1990, winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1991 with Wollek, Pescarolo, Frank Jelinski, "Winter" and Hurley Haywood. With their Porsche 962 now being outmoded by the Nissans, Jaguars and Toyotas, the team would not score any more victories. In 1993, the Nissan and TWR Jaguar team had withdrawn, and the AAR Eagle Toyota would continue to dominate the series final year. Joest managed to score the car's last IMSA victory at the Road America 500, due to Toyota's absence.

1994–1996: DTM with Opel

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In the 1990s, the team also had a successful career developing and racing an Opel Calibra in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM). They first won the ITR Gold Cup at the Donington Park round in 1994 with Manuel Reuter driving, when the leading Alfa Romeo of Alessandro Nannini was disqualified for running out of fuel. They would continue to have a successful career there by the time the series became a full-fledged international championship (ITC), winning the title for the final year in 1996 for Opel.

1996–1998: Return to Le Mans

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WSC-95 chassis #002 on display in its 1998 Porsche LMP1-98 guise.

In late 1995, Tom Walkinshaw Racing were commissioned by Porsche to produce a WSC car to compete in the 1996 Daytona 24-hour race. The resulting Porsche WSC-95 was based on the TWR's 1991 Jaguar XJR-14 chassis, with the roof removed and a flat-six Porsche engine fitted. The car was withdrawn because of a sudden rule change. For 1996, the concept was revived and Joest were chosen to run the WSC-95s at Le Mans as backup for Porsche's own team of works 911 GT1s. Joest won the race with Davy Jones, Manuel Reuter, and Alexander Wurz. They returned in 1997, this time without works support, but again with the same car wearing #7. The winning pilots were by Michele Alboreto, Stefan Johansson and Tom Kristensen, the latter scoring the first of his nine wins. As with the #7 956 of the 1980s, Joest attempted for a third straight win, although without success, as neither car finished, while Porsche itself prevailed in the 1998 race.

1998–2016: Works program with Audi

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Team Joest's Audi R8, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans three years in a row.

In 1998, after being associated with Porsche for many years, the team signed a works contract with Audi (its CEO being Ferdinand Piëch, a grandson of Porsche) to support them for the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. Joest helped them build and develop the Audi R8R. Audi, not being sure which concept was the better one, also supported an LM-GTP entry, the R8C, developed by Racing Technology Norfolk. While the British R8Cs never worked properly, the two Joest R8R were reliable, yet too slow to finish better than 3rd and 4th against one of the works BMW V12 LMR and a Toyota GT-One.

Audi and Joest went back to develop the highly successful R8, winning its maiden race at the 2000 12 Hours of Sebring, and going on to win at Le Mans. Between 2000 and 2002, the R8 cars took a hat-trick of wins at Le Mans, Sebring, and Petit Le Mans, as well as American Le Mans Series titles in each year.

Audi scaled their sports car racing operation down at the end of 2002,[5] preferring to focus their attention on the Bentley Speed 8 for a year, allowing it to win in 2003 (with support by Joest mechanics). In 2004, Audi returned to DTM touring car racing, now officially backing up the Abt Sportsline effort which had been called "private" since 2000. Joest and Abt fielded Audi A4s in the series.

In 2006, Joest began racing the new diesel-powered Audi R10 sports car. They began the 2006 season with a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and took also the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans, replicating that performance a year later and again in 2008, both times against Peugeot's diesel 908 HDi FAP coupe.

In 2009, Joest and Audi introduced the Audi R15 sports car, the replacement for the R10. However, reliability issues allowed Peugeot to finish first and second at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, with their 908 HDi FAP which had been perfected over its three-year history. In an answer to the 2009 issues, Audi reworked the R15 for 2010 (under the R15 TDI plus designation) with a higher reliability factor; unexpected Peugeot reliability issues of the 908 HDi FAP forced all four cars (including one by Oreca) to retire before the end of the race and resulted in a clean sweep of the podium in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, with all three cars running farther than the former 1971 race record, despite that the R15s were not using the V10 TDI engines at full and were not running faster than the four 908s.[6]

In 2011, the Audi R18 TDI won the 24 Hours of Le Mans despite the loss of 2 cars (both via crashes with slower GT Ferraris claiming Allan McNish in car 3 and then Mike Rockenfeller in car 1; the sole survivor, car 2, was the winner) and a ferocious pace from the opposing Peugeots. The R18s failed to win any of the other races in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup that year, however, handing the team and drive titles to Peugeot.

Audi Sport Team Joest entered a pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3's in the 2011 Bathurst 12 Hour held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia on 6 February. Both cars qualified on the front row with the team of Marc Basseng, Christopher Mies and Darryl O'Young leading home Australian team mates Mark Eddy, Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff in a 1-2 finish. With both cars on the same lap racing for the win, the margin was only 0.7141 between the two at the end of 12 hours of racing. The Joest Racing R8's finished one lap in front of the VIP Pet Foods Racing Porsche 997 GT3 Cup R of Craig Baird and father and son pairing Tony and Klark Quinn. It was Joest's 2nd win in Australia in two starts having previously won the ALMS Race of a Thousand Years on 31 December 2000 with Dindo Capello and Allan McNish winning in an Audi R8 LMP on the old Grand Prix circuit in Adelaide, South Australia. Capello put the R8 on pole position, while McNish was laid up with a bad back after he put it out when stepping out of his Kilt after a pre-event photo shoot. They also had to drive a repaired car after Capello put the crocodile liveried car into the tyre barriers in the race morning warm up session. Despite his troubles, McNish started the race and set the fastest lap. He also drove the 25 laps required and wrapped up the inaugural ALMS Drivers' title as a result.

For the first part of 2012, with the collapse of the Peugeot racing program, Audi ran near-unopposed in the first races of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship. The R18 TDI won the 2012 12 Hours of Sebring in its last race and its successor, the Audi R18 Ultra, won the 2012 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps with the related R18 E-Tron Quattro finishing in 2nd place. In the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, Joest Racing Audis won the top 3 positions with two R18 E-Tron Quattros finishing 1st and 2nd and one Audi R18 Ultra taking 3rd. After Le Mans, Audi won 2 further rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 2012 6 Hours of Silverstone and the 2012 6 Hours of Bahrain. While handing the other three rounds to Toyota, Audi would win the LMP1 Manufacturer Championship 2012 and helped Andre Lotterer, Bernoit Treleuyer and Marcel Fässler to become Driver World Endurance Champions 2012.

In late 2016, Audi Sport announced that they would leave the FIA World Endurance Championship.[7]

2017–2023: DPi and Hypercar ventures

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The Mazda RT24-P racing in Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

On 18 July 2017 it was announced that Joest Racing would take over the operation of the Mazda RT24-P Daytona Prototype International (DPi) entry in the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship for the 2018 season.[8] Mazda withdrew from the remainder of the 2017 season in order for Joest to spearhead testing and development of the then uncompetitive DPi. The partnership was terminated at the end of March 2020 with Mazda moving to Multimatic Motorsports.[9] During their partnership, Joest Racing was able to help Mazda score five victories in the series, winning at Watkins Glen, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Road America, Sebring, and at Daytona for the WeatherTech 240. In 2020, they also took home a podium finish at the 2020 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing in 2nd.

In 2021 it was announced that Joest Racing would work with Podium Advanced Technologies to assist in the running of Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus' new Hypercar programme, entering two SCG 007 LMH hypercars in the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship.[10] Glickenhaus scored podiums at the 2022 1000 Miles of Sebring, 2022 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, and 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans races, as well as two pole positions at Spa and Monza during their tenure together.[11]

Race results

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24 Hours of Daytona

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Year Entrant No. Car Drivers Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2018 Germany Mazda Team Joest 55 Mazda RT24-P United States Jonathan Bomarito
United States Spencer Pigot
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell
P 541 Ret Ret
Germany Mazda Team Joest 77 Mazda RT24-P United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Tristan Nunez
Belgium René Rast
P 530 Ret Ret
2019 Germany Mazda Team Joest 55 Mazda RT24-P United States Jonathan Bomarito
France Olivier Pla
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell
DPi 440 Ret Ret
Germany Mazda Team Joest 77 Mazda RT24-P Germany Timo Bernhard
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Tristan Nunez
Belgium René Rast
DPi 220 Ret Ret
2020 Germany Mazda Team Joest 55 Mazda RT24-P United States Jonathan Bomarito
United States Ryan Hunter-Reay
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell
DPi 823 6th 6th
Germany Mazda Team Joest 77 Mazda RT24-P United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Tristan Nunez
France Olivier Pla
DPi 833 2nd 2nd

24 Hours of Le Mans

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Year Entrant No. Car Drivers Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1975 Germany Ovoro Joest Racing 15 Porsche 908/03 Germany Jürgen Barth
Italy Mario Casoni
Germany Reinhold Joest
S 3.0 326 4th 4th
Germany Joest Racing
Germany Tebernum Racing
16 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Germany Hartwig Bertrams
Germany Clemens Schickentanz
GTS 42 DNF DNF
1976 Germany Joest Racing 17 Porsche 908/3 Turbo Germany Ernst Kraus
Germany Günther Steckkönig
Gr.6
S 3.0
313 7th 5th
Germany Martini Racing Joest 18 Porsche 936 Germany Jürgen Barth
Germany Reinhold Joest
218 DNF DNF
1980 Germany Equipe Liqui MolyMartini Racing 9 Porsche 908/J80 Belgium Jacky Ickx
Germany Reinhold Joest
Gr.6
S 3.0
337 2nd 2nd
1981 Germany Joest Racing 14 Porsche 908/J80 Belgium Reinhold Joest
Germany Klaus Niedzwiedz
United States Dale Whittington
Gr.6
S +2.0
80 DNF DNF
40 Porsche 935J United States Kenper Miller
Colombia Mauricio de Narváez
Germany Günther Steckkönig
IMSA
GTX
152 DNF DNF
1982 Germany Belga Team Joest Racing 4 Porsche 936CJ Belgium Jean-Michel Martin
Belgium Philippe Martin
France Bob Wollek
Gr.C 320 DNF DNF
Germany Vegla Racing Team – Joest 63 Porsche 935J Germany Harald Grohs
Colombia Mauricio de Narváez
Germany Dieter Schornstein
Gr.5
SP
0 DNS DNS
1983 Germany Sorga Joest Racing 8 Porsche 956 Sweden Stefan Johansson
Germany Klaus Ludwig
France Bob Wollek
Gr.C 355 6th 6th
12 Germany Volkert Merl
Colombia Mauricio de Narváez
Germany Clemens Schickentanz
362 4th 4th
Germany Joest Racing Belga Team 15 Porsche 936CJ Belgium Marc Duez
Belgium Jean-Michel Martin
Belgium Philippe Martin
9 DNF DNF
1984 Germany NewMan Joest Racing 7 Porsche 956B Germany Klaus Ludwig
France Henri Pescarolo
Gr.C1 360 1st 1st
8 Porsche 956 Sweden Stefan Johansson
Colombia Mauricio de Narváez
United States Jean-Louis Schlesser
170 DNF DNF
Germany Schornstein Racing Team
Germany NewMan Joest Racing
12 Germany Volkert Merl
Germany Dieter Schornstein
Germany "John Winter"
340 5th 5th
1985 Germany NewMan Joest Racing 7 Porsche 956B Italy Paolo Barilla
Germany Klaus Ludwig
Germany "John Winter"
Gr.C1 374 1st 1st
8 Porsche 956 France Paul Belmondo
United States Kenper Miller
Colombia Mauricio de Narváez
277 DNF DNF
1986 Germany Joest Racing 7 Porsche 956B Italy Paolo Barilla
Germany Klaus Ludwig
Germany "John Winter"
Gr.C1 196 DNF DNF
8 United States George Follmer
United States Kenper Miller
United States John Morton
355 3rd 3rd
1987 Germany Joest Racing 7 Porsche 962C United Kingdom David Hobbs
United States Chip Robinson
South Africa Sarel van der Merwe
Gr.C1 4 DNF DNF
8 Sweden Stanley Dickens
United States Hurley Haywood
Germany Frank Jelinski
7 DNF DNF
9 Sweden Stanley Dickens
United Kingdom David Hobbs
South Africa Sarel van der Merwe
Germany "John Winter"
0 DNS DNS
1988 Germany Blaupunkt Joest Racing 7 Porsche 962C United Kingdom David Hobbs
Austria Franz Konrad
Belgium Didier Theys
Gr.C1 380 5th 5th
8 Sweden Stanley Dickens
Germany Frank Jelinski
Germany "John Winter"
385 3rd 3rd
1989 Germany Joest Racing 7 Porsche 962C Germany Frank Jelinski
France Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Germany "John Winter"
Gr.C1 124 DNF DNF
8 France Claude Ballot-Léna
France Henri Pescarolo
France Jean-Louis Ricci
372 6th 6th
9 Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
France Bob Wollek
383 3rd 3rd
1990 Germany Joest Porsche Racing 6 Porsche 962C France Jacques Laffite
France Henri Pescarolo
France Jean-Louis Ricci
Gr. C1 328 14th 14th
7 United Kingdom Derek Bell
Germany Frank Jelinski
Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
350 4th 4th
8 France Philippe Alliot
United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer
France Bob Wollek
0 DNS DNS
9 Sweden Stanley Dickens
Germany "John Winter"
France Bob Wollek
346 8th 8th
1991 Austria Konrad Motorsport
Germany Joest Porsche Racing
57 Porsche 962C Germany Louis Krages
France Henri Pescarolo
Germany Bernd Schneider
C2 197 DNF DNF
58 United Kingdom Derek Bell
Germany Frank Jelinski
Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
347 7th 7th
59 Germany Jürgen Barth
Austria Franz Konrad
0 DNS DNS
1993 Germany Joest Porsche Racing 17 Porsche 962C Germany Frank Jelinski
Germany Manuel Reuter
Germany "John Winter"
C2 282 DNF DNF
18 Germany Ronny Meixner
France Henri Pescarolo
France Bob Wollek
351 9th 4th
1994 Germany Le Mans Porsche Team[12] 35 Dauer 962 Le Mans Belgium Thierry Boutsen
Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
United States Danny Sullivan
LMGT1 343 3rd 2nd
36 Italy Mauro Baldi
France Yannick Dalmas
United States Hurley Haywood
344 1st 1st
1996 Germany Joest Racing 7 TWR Porsche WSC-95 United States Davy Jones
Germany Manuel Reuter
Austria Alexander Wurz
LMP1 354 1st 1st
8 Italy Michele Alboreto
Italy Pierluigi Martini
Belgium Didier Theys
300 DNF DNF
1997 Germany Joest Racing GmbH 7 TWR Porsche WSC-95 Italy Michele Alboreto
Sweden Stefan Johansson
Denmark Tom Kristensen
LMP 361 1st 1st
1998 Germany Porsche AG 7 Porsche LMP1-98 Italy Michele Alboreto
France Yannick Dalmas
Sweden Stefan Johansson
LMP1 107 DNF DNF
8 United States David Murry
France Pierre-Henri Raphanel
United Kingdom James Weaver
218 DNF DNF
1999 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R8R France Laurent Aïello
Italy Michele Alboreto
Italy Rinaldo Capello
LMP 346 4th 3rd
8 Germany Frank Biela
Italy Emanuele Pirro
Belgium Didier Theys
360 3rd 2nd
2000 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R8 Germany Christian Abt
Italy Michele Alboreto
Italy Rinaldo Capello
LMP900 365 3rd 3rd
8 Germany Frank Biela
Denmark Tom Kristensen
Italy Emanuele Pirro
368 1st 1st
9 France Laurent Aïello
United Kingdom Allan McNish
Monaco Stéphane Ortelli
367 2nd 2nd
2001 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R8 Germany Frank Biela
Denmark Tom Kristensen
Italy Emanuele Pirro
LMP900 321 1st 1st
Germany Audi Sport North America 2 France Laurent Aïello
Italy Rinaldo Capello
Italy Christian Pescatori
320 2nd 2nd
2002 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R8 Germany Frank Biela
Denmark Tom Kristensen
Italy Emanuele Pirro
LMP900 375 1st 1st
3 Germany Michael Krumm
Austria Philipp Peter
Germany Marco Werner
372 3rd 3rd
Germany Audi Sport North America 2 Italy Rinaldo Capello
United Kingdom Johnny Herbert
Italy Christian Pescatori
374 2nd 2nd
2003 United Kingdom Team Bentley[13] 7 Bentley Speed 8 Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Guy Smith
LMGTP 377 1st 1st
8 United Kingdom Mark Blundell
Australia David Brabham
United Kingdom Johnny Herbert
375 2nd 2nd
2006 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R10 TDI Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
LMP1 367 3rd 3rd
8 Germany Frank Biela
Italy Emanuele Pirro
Germany Marco Werner
380 1st 1st
2007 Germany Audi Sport North America 1 Audi R10 TDI Germany Frank Biela
Italy Emanuele Pirro
Germany Marco Werner
LMP1 369 1st 1st
2 Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
262 DNF DNF
Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 3 Germany Lucas Luhr
France Alexandre Prémat
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
23 DNF DNF
2008 Germany Audi Sport North America 1 Audi R10 TDI Germany Frank Biela
Italy Emanuele Pirro
Germany Marco Werner
LMP1 367 6th 6th
2 Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
381 1st 1st
Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 3 Germany Lucas Luhr
France Alexandre Prémat
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
374 4th 4th
2009 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R15 TDI Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
LMP1 376 3rd 3rd
3 Germany Timo Bernhard
France Romain Dumas
France Alexandre Prémat
333 17th 13th
Germany Audi Sport North America 2 Germany Lucas Luhr
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
Germany Marco Werner
104 DNF DNF
2010 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R15 TDI plus Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
LMP1 394 3rd 3rd
8 Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
396 2nd 2nd
Germany Audi Sport North America 9 Germany Timo Bernhard
France Romain Dumas
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
397 1st 1st
2011 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R18 TDI Germany Timo Bernhard
France Romain Dumas
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
LMP1 116 DNF DNF
2 Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
355 1st 1st
Germany Audi Sport North America 3 Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
14 DNF DNF
2012 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
LMP1 378 1st 1st
2 Italy Rinaldo Capello
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
377 2nd 2nd
3 Audi R18 e-tron ultra France Romain Dumas
France Loïc Duval
Spain Marc Gené
366 5th 5th
Germany Audi Sport North America 4 Italy Marco Bonanomi
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
375 3rd 3rd
2013 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
LMP1 338 5th 5th
2 France Loïc Duval
Denmark Tom Kristensen
United Kingdom Allan McNish
348 1st 1st
3 Brazil Lucas di Grassi
Spain Marc Gené
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
347 3rd 3rd
2014 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Brazil Lucas di Grassi
Spain Marc Gené[N 1]
Denmark Tom Kristensen
LMP1-H 376 2nd 2nd
2 Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
379 1st 1st
3 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
Italy Marco Bonanomi
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
25 DNF DNF
2015 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
LMP1 393 3rd 3rd
8 Brazil Lucas di Grassi
France Loïc Duval
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
392 4th 4th
9 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
Italy Marco Bonanomi
Germany René Rast
387 7th 7th
2016 Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 7 Audi R18 Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Germany André Lotterer
France Benoît Tréluyer
LMP1 367 4th 4th
8 Brazil Lucas di Grassi
France Loïc Duval
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
372 3rd 3rd
2021 United States Glickenhaus Racing[10] 708 Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH Brazil Pipo Derani
France Franck Mailleux
France Olivier Pla
Hypercar 367 4th 4th
709 Australia Ryan Briscoe
France Romain Dumas
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook
364 5th 5th
2022 United States Glickenhaus Racing[10] 708 Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH Brazil Pipo Derani
France Romain Dumas
France Olivier Pla
Hypercar 370 4th 4th
709 Australia Ryan Briscoe
France Franck Mailleux
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook
375 3rd 3rd
2023 United States Glickenhaus Racing[10] 708 Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH Australia Ryan Briscoe
France Romain Dumas
France Olivier Pla
Hypercar 335 6th 6th
709 France Nathanaël Berthon
Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez
France Franck Mailleux
333 7th 7th

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins

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# Season Date Classes Track / Race No. Winning Drivers Chassis Engine
1 2019 June 30 (DPi) Watkins Glen 55 United States Jonathan Bomarito / France Olivier Pla / United Kingdom Harry Tincknell Mazda RT24-P Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
2 July 7 (DPi) Mosport 77 United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis / United States Tristan Nunez Mazda RT24-P Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
3 August 4 (DPi) Road America 55 United States Jonathan Bomarito / United Kingdom Harry Tincknell Mazda RT24-P Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4

Notes

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  1. ^ Loïc Duval was driving the No. 1 Audi when he was injured in a Wednesday practice accident. Following Wednesday qualifying, Duval was not cleared to participate in the race and was replaced by Audi reserve driver Marc Gené, who was set to drive for Jota Sport in LMP2.[14]

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