Joest Racing

Reinhold Joest in the Porsche 908/03 at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1972

Audi R8 series winner vehicle of the Joest team

1985: The Joest-Porsche 956 C wins the Le Mans 24-hour race

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

1997: TWR-Porsche WSC95

2011: Audi R18 in the Le Mans pre-test

Victories in the sports car world championship

year	run	vehicle	Driver 1	Driver 2	Driver 3
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
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

year	driver				dare
1984	Klaus Ludwig		Henri Pescarolo		Joest- Porsche 956 C
1985	Klaus Ludwig	Paolo Barilla		Louis Krages	Joest- Porsche 956 C
1996	Manuel Reuter	Davy Jones		Alexander Wurz	Joest TWR-Porsche WSC-95
1997	Michele Alboreto	Stefan Johansson		Tom Kristensen	Joest TWR-Porsche WSC-95
2000	Emanuele Pirro	Frank Biela		Tom Kristensen	Audi R8
2001	Emanuele Pirro	Frank Biela		Tom Kristensen	Audi R8
2002	Emanuele Pirro	Frank Biela		Tom Kristensen	Audi R8
2003	Rinaldo Capello	Tom Kristensen		Guy Smith	Bentley Speed ​​8 (officially Bentley works team)
2006	Frank Biela	Emanuele Pirro		Marco Werner	Audi R10 TDI
2007	Frank Biela	Emanuele Pirro		Marco Werner	Audi R10 TDI
2008	Rinaldo Capello	Allan McNish		Tom Kristensen	Audi R10 TDI
2010	Timo Bernhard	Romain Dumas		Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R15 Plus
2011	Benoît Tréluyer	Marcel Fässler		Andre Lotterer	Audi R18 TDI
2012	Benoît Tréluyer	Marcel Fässler		Andre Lotterer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro
2013	Allan McNish	Tom Kristensen		Loïc Duval	Audi R18 e-tron quattro
2014	Benoît Tréluyer	Marcel Fässler		Andre Lotterer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro

Web links

• Joest Racing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Peter Elleray: http://www.mulsannescorner.com/bentleyelleray.html
2. ↑ Joest before problem: 2017 Audi only exists on paper. Retrieved November 23, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Successes in the Sports Car World Championship 1976 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1979 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1980 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1983 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
7. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1984 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1985 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
9. ↑ Successes in the sports car world championship 1986 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ↑ Successes in the Sports Car World Championship 1989 ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )