Last week Porsche held their annual Night of Champions Dinner. As usual, besides reminiscing on the previous season in Motorsport, Porsche uses the evening as a platform to announce their plans for 2015. Amongst all the other announcements Porsche confirmed their factory driver line-up for 2015.
Of the 14 drivers from 2014, 13 were named. Conspicuously absent from any mention was Wolf Henzler. However, we know that Falken already announced he was back with them for 2015, we just weren’t sure if it was as a Porsche factory driver. After a few quick emails with Porsche they confirmed that Wolf does, indeed, remain part of the factory team. The one new addition to the factory line-up is Earl Bamber (Supercup Champion and 2014 winner of the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship.
2015 Porsche Factory Drivers
Earl Bamber (New Zealand)
Series: TUSCC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @earlbamber
Website: www.earlbambermotorsport.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/earlbambermotorsport
Factory Race Car:
Jörg Bergmeister (Germany)
Series: TUSCC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @JBergmeister
Website: N/A
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Joerg-Bergmeister-Porsche-Works-Driver
Timo Bernhard (Germany)
Series: WEC
Car: 919 Hybrid
Twitter: @Timo_Bernhard
Website: www.timo-bernhard.de
Facebook: www.facebook.com/timobernhard.de
Michael Christensen (Denmark)
Series: WEC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @ChristensenMK
Website: www.michaelkchristensen.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mcracedriver
Romain Dumas (France)
Series: WEC
Car: 919 Hybrid
Twitter: @RomainDumas
Website: www.romaindumas.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RomainDumasOfficiel
Brendon Hartley (New Zealand)
Series: WEC
Car: 919 Hybrid
Twitter: @brendonhartley
Website: www.brendonhartley.co.nz
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrendonHartleyMotorsport
Wolf Henzler (Germany)
Series: TUSCC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @wolf_henzler
Website: www.wolfhenzler.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/wolfhenzler.racebook
Neel Jani (Switzerland)
Series: WEC
Car: 919 Hybrid
Twitter: @neeljani
Website: www.neel-jani.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/NeelJaniRacing
Marc Lieb (Germany)
Series: WEC & TUSCC
Car: 919 Hybrid & 911 RSR
Twitter: @LiebMarc
Website: www.marc-lieb.de
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Marc-Lieb/
Richard Lietz (Austria)
Series: WEC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @RichardLietz
Website: www.richard-lietz.at
Facebook: www.facebook.com/richard.lietz.9
Patrick Long (United States)
Series: WEC & TUSCC (select longer races)
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @pLmotorsport
Website: www.patricklong.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Long/
Frédéric Makowiecki (France)
Series: WEC & TUSCC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @FredMako1
Website: www.fredmako.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FredMako1
Patrick Pilet (France)
Series: WEC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @PatrickPilet
Website: www.patrick-pilet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/patrick.piletracepage
Nick Tandy (UK)
Series: TUSCC
Car: 911 RSR
Twitter: @NickTandyR
Website: N/A
Facebook: www.facebook.com/NickTandyRacing
Mark Webber (Australian)
Series: WEC
Car: 919 Hybrid
Twitter: @AussieGrit
Website: www.markwebber.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarkWebber.Official
In addition to the 15 named above, Formula 1 star, Nico Hülkenberg will pilot a third Porsche 919 Hybrid at Le Mans in 2015. The other two drivers have yet to be named, but Porsche says they will first look to their own ranks of current GT drivers first. It should be noted that this isn’t the “final” list as there could still be additions.
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