Manthey Racing GmbH is a German auto racing team established in 1996 by former race car driver Olaf Manthey. Manthey Racing is currently competing in the Nürburgring Endurance Series, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, and the GT2 European Series, and is also responsible for Porsche's factory efforts in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Working with Porsche sports cars for most of their history, the team has been strongly linked with the German manufacturer, being purchased by Porsche for a 51% majority stake in 2013, and later becoming a full motorsport partner in 2021.^[1][2]

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Manthey Racing

Founded	1996
Base	Meuspath, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Team principal(s)	Nicolas Raeder
Founder(s)	Olaf Manthey
Current series	FIA World Endurance Championship Nürburgring Endurance Series Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters GT2 European Series
Former series	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Porsche Supercup International GT Open IMSA Sportscar Championship 24H Series ADAC GT Masters American Le Mans Series Porsche Carrera Cup Germany
Noted drivers	Timo Bernhard Matteo Cairoli Michael Christensen Romain Dumas Kévin Estre Patrick Huisman Marc Lieb Richard Lietz Lucas Luhr Frédéric Makowiecki Mike Rockenfeller Nick Tandy Marcel Tiemann
Teams' Championships	1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Porsche Supercup, 2015 FIA WEC, 2023 DTM
Drivers' Championships	1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Porsche Supercup, 2015 FIA WEC, 2023 DTM
Website	https://www.manthey-racing.de/en/home

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Retiring after the 1993 season of the original DTM series, Olaf Manthey began working for Persson Motorsport in 1994, which ran Mercedes race cars. After the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft series folded in 1996, Olaf Manthey established his own racing team, Olaf Manthey Racing, in the municipality of Rheinbreitbach.^[3]

The team first raced in the Porsche Supercup in 1996, finishing 4th in the teams' standings with 158 points.^[4] The next four seasons between 1997 and 2000 saw four consecutive teams' and drivers' championships for Manthey Racing and their Dutch driver Patrick Huisman.^[5] Manthey would later take part in their first VLN event in 1998, where the team won the race outright with a Porsche 911 GT2 after 3 hours and 25 minutes of racing.^[6] In the following year, Manthey Racing competed in the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, taking part in the annual endurance race for the first time, entering with a Porsche 911 (996) GT3-R. The team won on their first attempt in the LMGT class with Huisman, Uwe Alzen, and Luca Riccitelli.

On 1 April 2000, Manthey Racing moved to their current location in the municipality of Meuspath.^[3] The team would expand the site in 2006.

In 2013, Manthey Racing worked with Porsche to help enter and represent the German manufacturer in the LM GTE Pro class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.^[7] The team entered two cars for the 2013 season with the newly-unveiled Porsche 911 RSR, and Jörg Bergmeister, Patrick Pilet, Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb, Richard Lietz, and Romain Dumas were selected for the driving lineups. Porsche and Manthey scored six podiums throughout the season, including a 1-2 victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They would finish 3rd and 4th in the LM GTE Pro teams' standings. At the end of the year, Porsche worked with team owner Olaf Manthey on an agreement, in which Porsche bought a majority stake in Manthey Racing, taking a 51% share in the company.^[2]

For the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship, Porsche and Manthey would finish 2nd and 4th with their #92 and #91 entries respectively, taking two wins and eight podiums, including a 3rd place finish in the LM GTE Pro class at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[8] They would retain some of the driver lineup for that season from the previous year, but would replace Bernhard, Dumas, and Lieb with Frédéric Makowiecki, Nick Tandy, and Marco Holzer, as the former three would drive for Porsche's Le Mans Prototype team.

Building on their progress in the FIA World Endurance Championship the following year, Porsche and Manthey were able to secure the FIA Endurance Trophy for the LM GTE Pro class in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. Team driver Richard Lietz also won the LM GTE drivers' championship that year, known as the 'World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers'.^[9] From 2016 to 2023, the Manthey name was removed from the entry lists, though the team continued to help support Porsche's GTE efforts. For the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship, Manthey Racing was selected once again by Porsche to help operate its LM GT3 team.^[10][11]

Manthey won the 2023 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters drivers' and teams' championships with Thomas Preining (who won the championship) and Dennis Olsen.^[12]

That same year, Manthey, along with Australian racing team EMA Motorsport in a collaborative effort, also saw their first appearance in the Bathurst 12 Hour, participating with a Porsche 991.2 GT3 R as car #912 and Matt Campbell, Mathieu Jaminet, and Preining as their driver lineup. The team scored a 2nd-place finish overall on their first attempt, less than a second behind the overall race winners SunEnergy1 Racing. On their second attempt, they won the 2024 edition of the Bathurst endurance race outright with their #912 entry and drivers Campbell, Ayhancan Güven, and Laurens Vanthoor.^[13][14] Manthey also ran a second #911 entry in the Pro-Am class with Yasser Shahin, Alessio Picariello, and Harry King, in which they also won.^[15]

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