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In the FIA GT championship, Porsche’s drivers Marc Lieb and
Mike Rockenfeller carried off the drivers’ title with six victories in
eleven races in a 911GT3 RSR prepared by the British “Group
M Racing Team”, with 21-year-old Rockenfeller making head-
lines as the youngest champion in the history of this major
Gran Turismo championship.
The “Group M Racing Team” finished the 2005 season as
champions, which meant that the Porsche 911won its sixth
FIA GT title in succession, while Porsche was once again
distinguished in the manufacturers’ championship. In 2006,
private Porsche teams remained among the top achievers in
the driver and team competitions in the FIA GT championship
and the ALMS, although they had to face extremely stiff
competition.
The Le Mans series is still a new racing championship that
since 2004 has revived the tradition of the 1,000-kilometer
race. Five of these marathons were held in 2005. At the races
in Monza (Italy), Silverstone (Great Britain) and the Nürburg
Ring (Germany), Porsche’s driver Marc Lieb and his French
colleague Xavier Pompidou crossed the finishing line as
champions in the GT2 class in a Porsche 911GT3 RSR. The
German-French duo’s “Sebah Automotive Team” carried off
the team award.
Apart from these three championships, which are the most
significant, Porsche customers won various other motor sport
series and championships. These included American Craig
Stanton winning the GT driver’s title in a 911 GT3 Cup at the
“Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series”. The Portuguese
drivers Pedro Bastos and Miguel Christovao won the cup in the
Spanish competition for near-series racing cars in a Porsche
911GT3 Cup. In the well-established Belgian championship
for touring and Gran Turismo racing cars, the Belgians Franz
Lamot and Rudi Penders won in their class with a 911GT3 RSR.
After 13 racing victories, Sebastien Dumez and Raymond Narac
were pleased to carry off the GT2 title in the French Gran Turis-
mo championship. The two Frenchmen also drove a 911 GT3
RSR. In Japan, Manabu Orido and Nobuteru Taniguchi drove
their 911 GT3 Cup to a clear victory for the Advan-Denag team
in the “Super Taikyu Series”.
Among the Victors at all the Long-distance Classics
Five significant and well-established long-distance races
take place each year, and Porsche ranks among the record-
breakers at most of these. At the beginning of February 2006,
the Americans Ian Baas, Randy Pobst, Spencer Pumpelly and
Michael Levitas extended the list of Porsche victories in this
class to a record 60 with a 911 GT3 Cup in the 24-hour race
from Daytona (Florida).
In March 2006, Porsche’s driver Marc Lieb together with the
Americans John Fogarty and Johannes van Overbeek drove
to second place in their class in the 12-hour race in Sebring
in a 911GT3 RSR for the “Flying Lizard Team” and finished a
commendable tenth in the overall rankings.
The 24-hour race on the famous Nürburg Ring’s North Loop
ended with a double victory for Porsche sports cars in June
2006. The “Manthey Racing Team” supported by Porsche was
the overall winner in a 911GT3 and set a new distance record
of 3832.08 kilometers. A total of seven Porsche 911models
finished in the top ten.