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]

  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.