Olaf Manthey (born 21 April 1955 in

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) is a German former race car driver, and current owner of Porsche team Manthey Racing. Manthey's career as a driver began in 1974. In the 1980s, he won two races of the

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. Retiring as DTM racer after 1993, since 1994 he worked for

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in Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, which ran Mercedes cars. After the DTM faltered in late 1996, he set up his own business near the

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, focusing on Porsche road cars and his team Manthey Racing in the German

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, which he as driver had won in 1990, and in the

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. He continued racing on the long Nürburgring and has won 28 VLN endurance races there, mostly in the 1990s with DTM-based Mercedes 190, later with

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. Since 1999, his team receives a various degree of factory support from Porsche, or acts as factory team, or with factory-paid drivers. In 2012, Manthey decided to leave the VLN series and enter the

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instead. However, the team still ran a car at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring that year.

Results

Driver

* 1982 1st

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Sport cup, Ford Escort RS 2000 * 1983 1st Ford Sport cup * 1984 2nd DTM,

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* 1985 2nd DTM, Rover Vitesse * 1988 High speed record,

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Turbo * 1990 1st

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, Porsche 911 Carrera * 1992 – 1995: 22 VLN wins, Mercedes 190 EVO II

Team

* 1996 4th ranked Team in

* 1997 1st & 2nd Driver, 1st Team, Porsche Supercup * 1998 1st & 2nd Driver, 1st Team, Porsche Supercup * 1999 1st GT class

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-R * 1999 1st Driver & Team, Porsche Supercup * 2000 1st Driver & Team, Porsche Supercup * 2001 3rd Team, DTM, Mercedes * 2001 3rd Team Porsche Supercup * 2002 4th Team Porsche Supercup * 2003 3rd 24 Hours Nürburgring * 2004 3rd 24h Nürburgring * 2005 9th 24h Nürburgring * 2006 1st 24h Nürburgring * 2007 1st 24h Nürburgring * 2008 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th and 12th 24h Nürburgring * 2009 1st, 3rd and 7th 24h Nürburgring * 2011 1st, 10th and 13th 24h Nürburgring * 2013 1st GT class 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans,

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(with factory support)

References

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