Joest Racing

Joest Racing
Founded	1978
Base	Wald-Michelbach, Germany
Team principal(s)	Reinhold Joest
Former series	WeatherTech 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 drivers	Frank Biela ; Rinaldo Capello ; Marcel Fässler ; Reinhold Joest ; Tom Kristensen ; André Lotterer ; Klaus Ludwig ; Allan McNish ; Manuel Reuter ; Emanuele Pirro ; Mike Rockenfeller ; Benoît Tréluyer ; Marco Werner ; "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)

Last updated June 30, 2024

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.

Early years
Racing history
1984–1989: Early successes
1994–1996: DTM with Opel
1996–1998: Return to Le Mans
1998–2016: Works program with Audi
2017–2023: DPi and Hypercar ventures
Race results
24 Hours of Daytona
24 Hours of Le Mans
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins
Notes
References
External links

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

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

1984–1989: Early successes

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

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

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

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

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

24 Hours of Daytona

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

24 Hours of Le Mans

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

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins

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

Notes

↑ 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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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Audi R10 TDI</span> Sports prototype racing car by Audi

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The 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship was the eleventh season of the FIA World Endurance Championship, an auto racing series organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The series was open to prototype and grand tourer-style racing cars divided into three categories. World Championship titles were awarded to the leading drivers in both the prototype and grand tourer divisions and to the leading manufacturer in prototype division.

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↑ "From the pages of Vintage Motorsport: Joest Another Day". Vintage Motorsport. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
↑ Pruett, Marshall (18 July 2017). "Mazda Just Hired the Team Responsible for Audi's Le Mans Wins". Road & Track. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
↑ Lloyd, Daniel (4 January 2021). "Glickenhaus Enlists Joest, Sauber to Support LMH Program – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
↑ "Audi boss confirms Le Mans pull-out". www.autosport.com. 22 November 2002. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
↑ "Audi achieves record victory at Le Mans with new technology". joest-racing.de; Audi Sport . Joest Racing. 13 June 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
↑ "Audi WEC Team confirms that they will not be returning to the World Endurance Championship for the 2017 Season". 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
↑ "Joest To Take Over Mazda DPi Programme". dailysportscar.com. dailysportscar. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
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[Gene_2014-15] 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]

[1] "Audi dominates at Le Mans". GrandPrix.com. 16 June 2002. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

[2] "From the pages of Vintage Motorsport: Joest Another Day". Vintage Motorsport. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

[3] Pruett, Marshall (18 July 2017). "Mazda Just Hired the Team Responsible for Audi's Le Mans Wins". Road & Track. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[4] Lloyd, Daniel (4 January 2021). "Glickenhaus Enlists Joest, Sauber to Support LMH Program – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[5] "Audi boss confirms Le Mans pull-out". www.autosport.com. 22 November 2002. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[6] "Audi achieves record victory at Le Mans with new technology". joest-racing.de; Audi Sport . Joest Racing. 13 June 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2010.

[7] "Audi WEC Team confirms that they will not be returning to the World Endurance Championship for the 2017 Season". 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.

[8] "Joest To Take Over Mazda DPi Programme". dailysportscar.com. dailysportscar. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

[9] "Mazda ends sportscar partnership with Joest, Multimatic takes over". autosport.com. autosport. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

[GlickenhausJoest-10] 1 2 3 4 Goodwin, Graham (6 January 2021). "Joest Racing Confirm Partnership With Glickenhaus WEC Hypercar Programme". Dailysportscar. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

[11] "Glickenhaus 007 LMH | dailysportscar.com". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 18 June 2024.

[12] "24 Hours Centenary – 1994-1997: Dauer and TWR, the art of "recycling" according to Porsche". 24 Hours of Le Mans . Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2024.

[13] Elson, James (25 April 2023). "Bentley's stunning 2003 Le Mans win: 'Audi said it would never work'". Motor Sport Magazine . Retrieved 22 June 2024.

[Audi_Jota-14] Johnson, Daniel (12 June 2014). "Le Mans 24 Hours 2014: Loic Duval ruled out of legendary race after crash in practice". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 14 December 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

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