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ThePorsche Junioren (German:Porsche Junioren) are a team of youngracing drivers, employed byPorsche and driving for various private teams, as Porsche officially retired from factory racing after winning the1998 24 Hours of Le Mans overall with thePorsche 911 GT1. The current Porsche Junioren(in 2025) areAlessandro Ghiretti of France andTheo Oeverhaus of Germany.[1]
Porsche supports its customer teams not only with race cars, but also voluntarily with talented young race drivers, who drive in many race series worldwide and furthermore support the advancement of the race cars.Porsche gives its works drivers room for improvement and advancement with contracts lasting for several years. To be a Porsche works driver means to have a full-time job, participating in up to 25 races a year, among them many endurance races, and often in different race car models. Former Porsche Junior drivers includeDirk Muller,Thierry Boutsen,Randy Pobst,Johnny Mowlem,Romain Dumas,Timo Bernhard,Joerg Bergmeister,Patrick Long, andBob Wollek.
The 200624 Hours Nürburgring was won byLucas Luhr,Timo Bernhard,Mike Rockenfeller, andMarcel Tiemann in aPorsche 911 GT3-MR.
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