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Kremer Racing is a motorsports team based inCologne,Germany, founded by racing driver Erwin Kremer and his brother Manfred. They have competed internationally withPorsches for nearly all of their existence, and were even one of the factory-backed squads for many years. Besides running Porsches, the team was also known for their tuned Porsche race cars that they both raced and sold to other teams who could not gain the best equipment from the factory.
Among Kremer's greatest achievements were: Winning the1979 24 Hours of Le Mans with their own 935 K3 withKlaus Ludwig and American brothersDon andBill Whittington. Kremer Racing later won the24 Hours of Daytona in a K8 Spyder in 1995 with driversJürgen Lässig,Christophe Bouchut,Giovanni Lavaggi andMarco Werner.
After surviving a heart attack two years earlier, the company's founder Erwin died in 2006[1] and the managing director Uwe Sauer is at the helm of the team, even when younger brother Manfred Kremer bought it back in 2008, before selling it to Mr.Baunach in 2010.
In the 1970s, Kremer initially tuned911s,914-6 GTs, and934s. However, with thePorsche 935, Kremer began designating their tuned models with the letter K, followed by a number in order of construction. Eight cars were designated as such.
Kremer also built a917 for use in the1981 24 Hours of Le Mans, and would also make improvements on the911 GT1 andGT2 in the 1990s.
