The Joest team took an unwanted car and won the 1996 Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche - essentially acting as a catalyst for it to team up with Audi. Through the Autosport Archive, gazzasportscars looked back on the start of something bigger ⬇️
Back in 1996 the Joest team took an unwanted car and won Le Mans for Porsche. The result was essentially the catalyst for it becoming Audi’s team of choice, a partnership that would go on to claim 13 wins in the 24-hour race. Autosport looked back 20 years on in the 2016 Le Mans supplement at the start of something bigAudi didn’t have to look very far when it came to finding a race team for its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1999.
“I asked Herr Marchart what he was going to do with those cars,” remembers Joest. “I said to him, ‘Would you be interested in renting me them for Le Mans? I think I can win Le Mans for Porsche’.” The developments – new front and rear bodywork and a one-piece floor – weren’t so much designed as “just built”, he continues.
Juttner was bang on the money. The WSC95 was at least as quick as the two Porsche 911 GT1s and only went one lap less on a tank of fuel. Triple stinting – a tactic it adopted through the daylight hours of the race – gave the winning car, shared by Manuel Reuter, Davy Jones and Alex Wurz, the lead as early as the first hour.
That left the team with just a solo WSC95 in its workshops – Joest had cut a deal with Marchart that if he won Le Mans, he could keep the car. Yet there were still obstacles to clear to run it at the 24 Hours again.
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