Freisinger Motorsport

Freising Motorsport is a specialist on Porsche cars German car tuners, which formerly also held a Motorsport team. The company was founded in 1967 by Manfred Freising in Karlsruhe and is now managed by his son Manfred Frei Singer Junior.

Motorsports History

The team took from 1992 part of the international motor sport and launched initially in the Porsche Supercup. In 1995 he was the first to participate in the 24- hour race at Le Mans. The first major international win was in 1998, when Freising Motorsport Porsche 993 GT2 won the class LMGT2 at Petit Le Mans. In the same year, the team went into the FIA GT Championship. 1999 occupied Freising Motorsport third place in the team standings and was the best Porsche team. Followed in 2000 on the Euro Speedway Lausitz, the first race win in the FIA ​​GT Championship.

As of 2001, the Porsche 996 GT3 RS was used, which in its class to now only limited competitive Porsche 993 GT2 replaced. Now the team competed in the smaller N- GT class. In the 2002 season, scored Freising Motorsport in the FIA ​​GT Championship a total of seven class wins. 2003, the team ranking in the N- GT class again Freising Motorsport. This season, the team with his drivers Stéphane Ortelli, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas succeeded beyond the 24-hour race in Spa -Francorchamps a historic success, as a vehicle of the N- GT class could retract the overall win for the first time.

Thereafter, it began Freising Motorsport in season one 2004, three vehicles. A total of nine of the eleven championship races, the team decided in the N- GT class for itself. The team classification was won by a clear margin on the competition. At the 24 -hour race in Spa- Francorchamps, the three vehicles used took the first three places in the N- GT class. The first-placed of the three Freising - Porsche was at the end of the race in third place in the overall standings. During the 2004 season Freising Motorsport also took part in the Le Mans Series, in which the team scored two class wins and a close second place three earned in the team standings of the GT class.

After the 2004 season, Freising Motorsport had to withdraw from motorsports, as the main sponsor of Yukos because of the " Yukos affair " became insolvent. Since then, Freising Motorsport focused on tuning and restoration of Porsche cars.

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