PORSCHE: MOST SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURER IN ALMS HISTORY WITH 12 CLASS CHAMPIONSHIPS
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The majority of Porsche's ALMS activity has centered on the Le Mans GT class, where, through its customer teams, the company has pitted its best Porsche 911 racecars against the world's factory efforts over the years from Ferrari, BMW, Corvette, Dodge/SRT Viper, Aston Martin, Maserati and others. In nine of those 15 years, Porsche customer teams won the manufacturers' championship with entrants Dick Barbour Racing, Alex Job Racing, Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing and Flying Lizard Motorsports. Championship drivers have included Cort Wagner, Dirk Mueller, Timo Bernhard, Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, Romain Dumas, Lucas Luhr, Sascha Maassen and Wolf Henzler. When Porsche teamed up with Penske Racing to initiate a factory LMP2 effort in the 2005, the company developed a clean-sheet-of-paper 3.4-liter V8 engine and matching Porsche-designed chassis and transmission that was an instant success in the series. After winning its class at the car's debut at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr), the Porsche RS Spyder went on to three consecutive LMP2 class championships. Hitting above its weight in 2007, Porsche beat the LMP1 Audi seven races in a row to win overall. Winning RS Spyder drivers included Sascha Maassen, Lucas Luhr, Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard, Emmanuel Collard, Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe for Penske Racing, while, in a former Dyson Racing RS Spyder, Klaus Graf and Greg Pickett, along with Luhr and Maassen, also scored ALMS wins for Pickett's Muscle Milk Racing. In the final season of ALMS competition, Porsche customer teams CORE autosport, Team Falken Tire and Paul Miller Racing have campaigned Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs in the GT class while multiple teams, including Alex Job, TRG, Flying Lizard, JDX Racing, NGT Motorsports and Dempsey Racing have raced in the one-make GTC class. Perhaps the most fitting end to the relationship between the ALMS and Porsche was the improbable Team Falken Tire Porsche GT win (Wolf Henzler/Bryan Sellers/Nick Tandy) in the series' finale at Road Atlanta on October 19. Porsche American Le Mans Series Final Statistics In 148 Races between 1999 – 2013: Porsche overall wins. 13 (Mid-Ohio, '06; Long Beach, '07; Houston, '07, Salt Lake City, '07, Lime Rock, '07, Mid-Ohio '07, Road America, '07, Mosport '07, Detroit '07, Sebring, '08, Salt Lake City '08, Lime Rock '10, Mosport '10) GT Manufacture Championships – 9 LMP2 Manufacture Championships – 3 Driver Championships - 14 Porsche Class Victories. 116* Audi - 82 Corvette – 79 Lola - 45 Honda/Acura – 36 Ferrari - 34 BMW - 33 SRT/Dodge – 16 Porsche P1 Wins. 2 (Muscle Milk P2 car re-classified when ALMS combined P classes) Porsche P2 Wins. 25 Porsche GTS Wins. 2 Porsche GT/GT2 Wins. 83 Porsche 911 GT3 R/RS/RSR Wins. 81 Porsche Class Poles: 98 Audi – 64 Corvette – 64 Porsche won the GT/GT2 ALMS manufacturers title nine of the 15 years of ALMS' existence – all with the Porsche 911 GT3 R/RS/RSR family of racecars. 2006 was Porsche's first LMP2 title, and Porsche won the drivers, manufacturers, engine and chassis titles in LMP2 for 2006, 2007, and 2008. *does not include GTC, unclassified 911 GT3 R Hybrid wins, and GTE-Am WEC wins at Petit Le Mans and Sebring
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