Prospeed Competition Explained

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

YearEntrantNo.CarDriversClassLaps
2010 Prospeed Competition75Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Niek Hommerson
Louis Machiels
Paul van Splunteren
LMGT231721st7th
2011 Prospeed Competition75Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Marc Goossens
Marco Holzer
Jaap van Lagen
LMGTE Pro29323rd8th
2012 Prospeed Competition75Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Abdulaziz Al-Faisal
Bret Curtis
Sean Edwards
LMGTE Am180DNFDNF
2013 Prospeed Competition75Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Emmanuel Collard
Sébastien Crubilé
François Perrodo
LMGTE Am29836th9th
2014 Prospeed Competition79Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Jeroen Bleekemolen
Bret Curtis
Cooper MacNeil
LMGTE Pro31933rd5th
75 Emmanuel Collard
Markus Palttala
François Perrodo
LMGTE Am194DNFDNF
2015 Team AAI[1] 67Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Jun-San Chen
Alex Kapadia
Xavier Maassen
LMGTE Am31637th8th
68Porsche 911 RSR Han-Chen Chen
Mike Parisy
Gilles Vannelet
32035th6th
2016 Team AAI[2] 57Chevrolet Corvette C7.R Oliver Bryant
Johnny O'Connell
Mark Patterson
LMGTE Am30639th9th

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Team AAI Le Mans Programme Progresses, Team Acquires Porsche 911 RSR. Dailysportscar. Goodwin. Graham. 1 May 2015. 6 February 2026.
  2. Web site: AAI Switches to Corvette C7.R for 24H Le Mans. Sportscar365. John Dagys Media. Dagys. John. 9 May 2016. 6 February 2026.