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Customer teams with factory support were victorious in major
long-distance races and championships.
Series race. The RS Spyder was entered for this event by Penske
Motorsports.
In 2006 the new Porsche prototype will be entered for all the ALMS
events by Penske, the only team to run it in this, its first full racing
season. Roger Penske, owner of one of the most professional and
successful racing teams in the USA for several decades, captured
two CanAm championships with the legendary Porsche 917 sports
car in 1972 and 1973.
Renewed Success in Major GT Championships
During the review year, Porsche customers entered various comp-
etition versions of the 911 GT3 in ALMS events, for the FIA GT
championship and for numerous national championships – with great
success. In the near-series ALMS categories and the FIA GT cham-
pionship a large number of races and all the available titles were
won; Porsche cooperated with selected customer teams by allowing
its factory drivers to take the wheel and by way of further develop-
ment work on the cars.
In 2004, factory driver Timo Bernhard, at the wheel of a 911 GT3 RSR
entered with Porsche support by the Alex Job Racing Team (USA),
scored five victories in nine starts and took the GT2 drivers’ cham-
pionship title. After the final event, the team run by Alex Job was able
to celebrate its third successive team championship win. The manu-
facturers’ rankings in the ALMS series also reflect the dominance
of the Porsche 911 GT3 in the GT2 class: the champion’s trophy
went to Porsche for the fifth time.
In August 2005 Timo Bernhard and his fellow works driver Romain
Dumas took the GT2 drivers’ title in the 2005 ALMS series without
difficulty after six of the ten races, leading other Porsche drivers
across the line. Porsche’s domination of the team and brand cham-
pionship rankings was also obvious.Porsche customers were not
only successful in the ALMS but also in the FIA N-GT championship
races held worldwide for Gran Turismo sports cars. Porsche works
drivers Lucas Luhr and Sascha Maassen took the drivers’ title in a
911 GT3 RSR entered by the private Freisinger Motorsport team,
their third successive N-GT team championship triumph.
By August 2005, equal success was just around the corner in the
FIA GT championship series: Porsche works drivers Marc Lieb and
Mike Rockenfeller were leading the redefined GT2 category of the
drivers’ championship after seven out of the total of eleven races had
been run. The British Group M Racing Team was already unbeatable
in the team rankings, and Porsche too was in an unassailable posi-
tion in the brand championship.
Class Wins in the World’s Major Long-distance Races
During the review year the 911 GT3 again scored class wins in the five
most important long-distance races around the world. At the Day-
tona 24-hour race in February 2005, drivers Dominik Farnbacher/Wolf