Joest Racing
Joest Racing is the motorsport team of founder Reinhold Joest based in Wald-Michelbach . In races with Audi , the team is listed as Audi Sport Team Joest . Team director and managing director is Ralf Jüttner .
history
Reinhold Joest began his career as a racing driver in 1962 with mountain races in his native Odenwald . In the 1970s, he drove sports car races with the Porsche 908 and founded his racing team in 1978. In addition to many successes as a driver, from 1982 onwards he concentrated on the role of team boss.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the team participated in all major endurance races such as the Daytona 24-hour race , the Sebring 12-hour race , Road America , the Nürburgring 1000 km race and the 24 Successful Le Mans hour race with Porsche 935 , Porsche 936 and Porsche 956 . With Klaus Ludwig , Joest was able to win twice in a row with the same car at Le Mans in 1984 and 1985. He achieved the same coup again in 1996 and 1997 with the TWR-Porsche WSC-95, starting number 7.
In 1996 Joest Racing won the International Touring Car Championship with driver Manuel Reuter and an Opel Calibra . In the same year, the team won Le Mans for the third time with a TWR-Porsche WSC95 . In the following year, the Le Mans victory was repeated with the same car.
Joest has been closely associated with Audi Motorsport since 1998 and was able to celebrate their mutual successes in Le Mans and in the American Le Mans Series with the Audi R8 sports prototype .
In 2003, Team Joest won Le Mans with the Bentley Speed 8 , but was officially run as a Bentley works team there for marketing reasons. The development of the Bentley Speed 8 is based on the Audi R8C from 1999 with the latest technology from the Audi R8.
From 2004 the team also drove for Audi in the DTM . The successes fell short of expectations, however, points were an exception. For this reason, Joest withdrew from the series in late 2005.
From 2006 the sports prototype Audi R10 TDI with diesel engine was successfully used, with victories at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans . Its successor, the R15 , was used in 2009 and in a revised version in 2010. The new Audi R18 has been in use since 2011 .
In 2014, Joest Racing won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the 16th time, making it the most successful sports car team in racing history.
Since Audi completely ceases its sports car racing activities (including LeMans and WEC ) at the end of the 2016 motorsport season , the Joest Racing team has no clients in November 2016 and they would have to finance, build and deploy a racing car out of their own pocket for the 2017 motorsport season.
Driver in the DTM
1993 | Opel Calibra V6 | Manuel Reuter | Keke Rosberg | ||||
1994 | Opel Calibra V6 | Manuel Reuter | Keke Rosberg | "John Winter" | |||
1995 | Opel Calibra V6 4x4 | Manuel Reuter | Yannick Dalmas | JJ Lehto | Ni Amorim | ||
1996 | Opel Calibra V6 | Manuel Reuter | Oliver Gavin | Yannick Dalmas | Alexander Wurz | Tony Kanaan | Masanori Sekiya |
2004 | Audi A4 DTM | Emanuele Pirro | Frank Biela | Rinaldo Capello | |||
2005 | Audi A4 DTM | Christian Dept. | Pierre Kaffer | Rinaldo Capello | Frank Stippler |
Results
Victories in the sports car world championship
year | run | vehicle | Driver 1 | Driver 2 | Driver 3 |
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1976 | 300 km race on the Nürburgring | Porsche 908/4 Turbo | Reinhold Joest | ||
1979 | 6 hours of Dijon | Porsche 908/3 | Reinhold Joest | Volkert Merl | Mario Ketterer |
Brands Hatch 6 hour race | Porsche 908/3 TC | Reinhold Joest | Volkert Merl | ||
1980 | Daytona 24 hour race | Porsche 935J / T | Reinhold Joest | Volkert Merl | Rolf Stommelen |
1000 km race on the Nürburgring | Porsche 908/4 Turbo | Jürgen Barth | Rolf Stommelen | ||
1983 | 1000 km race from Monza | Porsche 956 | Bob Wollek | Thierry Boutsen | |
1984 | Le Mans 24 hour race | Porsche 956 | Klaus Ludwig | Henri Pescarolo | |
1985 | Le Mans 24 hour race | Porsche 956 | Klaus Ludwig | Paolo Barilla | Louis Krages |
1986 | 100 mile race from Nuremberg | Porsche 956 | Klaus Ludwig | ||
Fuji 1000 km race | Porsche 956 | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Paolo Barilla | ||
1989 | Dijon 480 km race in 1989 | Porsche 962C | Bob Wollek | Frank Jelinski |
Drivers World Championships in the FIA WEC
year | team | vehicle | Driver 1 | Driver 2 | Driver 3 |
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2012 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi R18 e-tron quattro | Marcel Fässler | André Lotterer | Benoît Tréluyer |
2013 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi R18 e-tron quattro | Loïc Duval | Tom Kristensen | Allan McNish |
The victories at Le Mans
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Peter Elleray: http://www.mulsannescorner.com/bentleyelleray.html
- ↑ Joest before problem: 2017 Audi only exists on paper. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Successes in the Sports Car World Championship 1976 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1979 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1980 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1983 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1984 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1985 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1986 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Successes in the Sports Car World Championship 1989 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )