Prospeed Competition is a sports car racing team based in Liège, Belgium. 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 Belcar Endurance Championship, where it won the 2011 and 2012 drivers championships and the 2009 24 Hours of Zolder.
In 2008, the team entered the FIA GT Championship with a GT2 class Porsche 911 driven by Richard Westbrook and Emmanuel Collard and another for Markus Palttala 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 Richard Westbrook but finished second in the teams standings with Marco Holzer and Paul van Splunteren.
In 2010, after the dismissal of the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship, the team moved to the Le Mans Series 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 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Westbrook was replaced by Marc Goossens 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 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Jaap van Lagen as third driver. The team won the GTE-Am class of the 2012 6 Hours of Castellet, 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 FIA GT3 European Championship, where it won the 2010 teams title and finished vice-champion in the drivers title with Marco Holzer 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 2011 24 Hours of Spa 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 Blancpain Endurance Series for 2012 with a Pro car for Goosens, Xavier Maassen and Marc Hennerici, 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.
24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Entrant No. Car Drivers Class Laps 2010 Prospeed Competition 75 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels Paul van Splunteren LMGT2 317 21st 7th 2011 Prospeed Competition 75 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Marc Goossens Marco Holzer Jaap van Lagen LMGTE Pro 293 23rd 8th 2012 Prospeed Competition 75 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Abdulaziz Al-Faisal Bret Curtis Sean Edwards LMGTE Am 180 DNF DNF 2013 Prospeed Competition 75 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Emmanuel Collard Sébastien Crubilé François Perrodo LMGTE Am 298 36th 9th 2014 Prospeed Competition 79 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Jeroen Bleekemolen Bret Curtis Cooper MacNeil LMGTE Pro 319 33rd 5th 75 Emmanuel Collard Markus Palttala François Perrodo LMGTE Am 194 DNF DNF 2015 Team AAI 67 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Jun-San Chen Alex Kapadia Xavier Maassen LMGTE Am 316 37th 8th 68 Porsche 911 RSR Han-Chen Chen Mike Parisy Gilles Vannelet 320 35th 6th 2016 Team AAI 57 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R Oliver Bryant Johnny O'Connell Mark Patterson LMGTE Am 306 39th 9th
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