Prospeed Competition is a

sports car racing Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing which utilises sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built prototypes or grand tourers based on road-going models. Broadly speaking, sports car racing is ...

team based in Liège,

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. It was founded in 2006 by Rudi Penders and Luc Goris. It has been a factory-supported Porsche team since 2008. The team debuted in the 2006

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Endurance Championship, where it won the 2011 and 2012 drivers championships and the 2009

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. In 2008, the team entered the

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with a GT2 class Porsche 911 driven by

Richard Westbrook Richard Westbrook (born 10 July 1975) is a British professional racing driver noted for his success in racing Porsche and International sports cars. As a junior, he attended St Joseph's College, Ipswich. He has won both the Porsche Supercup i ...

and

Emmanuel Collard Emmanuel Collard (born 3 April 1971) is a French professional racing driver. He is a former member of the Porsche Junioren factory team, but also drives for other marques. Born in Arpajon, Essonne, Collard is the winner of the Le Mans Serie ...

and another for

Markus Palttala Markus Palttala (born 16 August 1977 in Nakkila) is a Finnish racing driver. After racing in karts, Palttala began racing cars in the Finnish Touring Car Championship in 1998. He competed in the 2001 European Super Production Championship, dri ...

and Mikael Forsten. The team finished third in the teams standings and Westbrook took third place in the drivers standings. Prospeed claiming the 2009 GT2 drivers title with

but finished second in the teams standings with

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and Paul van Splunteren. In 2010, after the dismissal of the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship, the team moved to the

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with a GT2-class Porsche 911 run by Westbrook and Holzer. The best result was a second place at Silverstone and ended 12th in the teams championship. The team also fielded an all-amateur car at the

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. Westbrook was replaced by

Marc Goossens Marc Goossens, nicknamed The Goose (born 30 November 1969), is a Belgian professional racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving the No. 14 Chevrolet Camaro for SpeedHouse in the EuroNASCAR PRO class. Ra ...

in the 2011 Le Mans Series. The duo finished 13th in the GT2 drivers championship and Prospeed finished sixth in the GT2 teams championship. They also finished 8th in the GTE-Pro class at the

, with

Jaap van Lagen Jaap van Lagen (born 22 December 1976 in Ede) is a Dutch racing driver, who is a former competitor in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series and a former Eurocup Megane Trophy champion. He has also raced in the World Touring Car Championship. Racing c ...

as third driver. The team won the GTE-Am class of the

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, but did not compete at the remaining European Le Mans Series races. Later they raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GTE-Am entry headed by Sean Edwards, which retired at mid race. Prospeed also competed at the

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, where it won the 2010 teams title and finished vice-champion in the drivers title with

and Paul van Splunteren. They also fielded two cars in 2011, when the best lineup finished 19th in the standings with two wins. Prospeed returned to the

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also with two Porsche 911 cars: a Pro entry headlined by Goossens and a Pro-Am, both of which retired. The team joined the full

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for 2012 with a Pro car for Goosens, Xavier Maassen and

Marc Hennerici Marc Hennerici (born 10 May 1982 in Mayen) is a German auto racing driver. He is best known for being the first winner of the World Touring Car Championship's Independents Trophy, in 2005. Racing career Hennerici competed in Formula BMW from 1999 ...

, and a Pro-Am car. The Pro car won a race and finished third in the teams championship, whereas the drivers ended 7th behind the two leading WRT and Marc VDS driver lineups.

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