Porsche has revealed a new-look driver roster for Porsche Penske Motorsport’s 2025 FIA WEC and IMSA campaigns with its fleet of 963s.
Mathieu Jaminet and Matt Campbell will drive the No. 6 Penske-run 963 within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP class, whereas the No. 7 automotive shall be shared by defending drivers’ champion Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy. Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre will help the full-season drivers at choose Endurance Cup races.
Within the WEC, Julian Andlauer has been promoted to the Hypercar manufacturing facility group following a standout marketing campaign with Proton Competitors in 2024. He’ll share the No. 5 with Michael Christensen. The No. 6, in the meantime, shall be shared by Vanthoor and Estre.
Each automobiles will run with simply two drivers for the total season, a change from 2023 and ’24, with Jaminet and Campbell set to affix the squad at La Sarthe.
These modifications additionally embrace three key three departures from its driver steady, as 2024 drivers’ champion Dane Cameron, FIA WEC Hypercar drivers’ championship chief Andre Lotterer and Le Mans GTE Professional and Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Frédéric Makowiecki — a manufacturing facility driver for 11 years — are all set to be launched on the finish of the yr.
“I’d wish to thank Dane Cameron, André Lotterer and Frédéric Makowiecki for his or her unimaginable work over the previous few years. All three have performed a major function in us with the ability to have fun nice successes with the Porsche 963 on either side of the Atlantic in simply the second yr of competitors,” saidThomas Laudenbach, vice chairman of Porsche Motorsport. “We compete in 2025 with a modified line-up. Our squad continues to be among the many prime echelons of endurance racing internationally.
“Plus, we’re remaining devoted to our very profitable initiative by supporting one other former Porsche Junior to climb to the highest of the profession ladder. Over the previous few seasons, Julien Andlauer has impressed us on the wheel of each Porsche racing automotive from Weissach. He completely deserves this promotion into the works driver squad.”
Urs Kuratle, the director of LMDh manufacturing facility motorsport at Porsche, mentioned, “With the brand new line-up, I consider we’ve put collectively a profitable mixture for 2025. We’ll have two very skilled drivers in each collection, plus two drivers in sister automobiles, all of whom have come up by way of the ranks of Porsche’s junior program and utterly received us over as proficient children.
“I’d additionally wish to thank Dane Cameron, André Lotterer and Frédéric Makowiecki. All three have contributed to getting the Porsche Penske Motorsport marketing campaign to the place it now stands in world endurance racing: on the prime.”
Jonathan Diuguid, the managing director of Porsche Penske Motorsport, famous that the 2025 WEC and IMSA calendars opened the door for Porsche to mobilize its driver pairings extra typically.
“For 2024, we relied on consistency and continuity and made only some focused tweaks to the squad,” he mentioned. “This determination proved to be proper. Spurred by these successes, we’ll take an analogous strategy for 2025. The door has opened for (driver) involvement in each collection.”
