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. The current Porsche Junioren are Klaus Bachler and Michael Christensen.

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. former Porsche Junior drivers include Dirk Muller, Thierry Boutsen, Randy Pobst, Johnny Mowlem and the late Bob Wollek

The nine drivers are:

• Romain Dumas (911 GT3 RSR Manthey in Nurburgring VLN series)
• Patrick Pilet
• Timo Bernhard (overall winner 2003 24 Hours of Daytona (911 GT3 RSR Manthey in Nurburgring VLN series)
• Marc Lieb (911 GT3 RSR Team Felbermayr-Proton in FIA WEC)
• Marco Hozler (Previously Penske Porsche RS Spyder driver in ALMS)
• Wolf Henzler (911 GT3 RSR driver for Team Falkin in ALMS)
• Joerg Bergmeister (911 GT3 RSR driver for Flying Lizard in ALMS)
• Richard Lietz (911 GT3 RSR driver for Team Felbermayr-Proton FIA WEC)
• Patrick Long (911 GT3 RSR driver for Flying Lizard in ALMS)

In 2005, Porsche has resumed a factory effort, with the Porsche RS Spyder that is raced in the American Le Mans by Penske Racing.

  Results

The 2006 24 Hours Nürburgring was won by Lucas Luhr / Timo Bernhard / Mike Rockenfeller and Marcel Tiemann on a Porsche 911 GT3-MR.

  External links

• Web site

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