Proton Competition

The team currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship with a customer Porsche 963 and a factory-supported Ford Mustang GT3.

Their best race finish was third at the opening round in Monza, the same venue where they scored their only point in the 2003 season.

88 a 997 GT3-RSR driven by Christian Ried and Horst Felbermayr Jr accompanied by a third driver in some races which included Thomas Grüber, Marc Basseng and Johannes Stuck.

The father and son partnership of Horst Felbermayr Jr. and Sr. alongside Philip Collin were the drivers in car No.

The race didn't last long either with the car retiring after 68 laps due to a problem with the electrics.

Car 88 finished eighth place with ten points, level with Farnbacher Racing.

The team made its full début at Le Mans with no partnership from Seikel Motorsport this time round.

The teams' line up for Le Mans was Horst Felbermayr Sr. Alex Davison and Wolf Henzler.

Marc Lieb remained in car 77 for the 2009 season with Richard Lietz becoming his teammate replacing Alex Davison.

It was car 77 that earned all of the success for the team winning three of the five races and winning the Teams Championship by just one point ahead of JMW Motorsport, with car 88 finishing tenth in the standings earning five points.

They also partnered IMSA Performance Matmut who are long time Porsche competitors with car No.

The team narrowly missed out on pole position by only 0.030 seconds behind American Porsche competitors Flying Lizard Motorsports.

The race was at Okayama in Japan and the team brought over the two cars but mixed the driver pairings up a bit.

77 championship winning line up of Lieb and Lietz for the 2010 season with Christian Ried retaining his No.

Porsche factory drivers Patrick Long and Romain Dumas also joined car 88 for a few of the LMS events.

They finished a comfortable 21 points ahead of second place team AF Corse.

Lieb and Lietz also retained their Drivers Championship titles beating the AF Corse trio of Jean Alesi, Giancarlo Fisichella and Toni Vilander by 21 points.

For the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team hoped that their championship winning car could prove its status this time round after a disappointing early exit in last years edition.

The race however was a completely different story with car 77 taking the GT2 class victory at Le Mans in 2010 beating Ferrari, Corvette and fellow Porsche factory teams.

It was Marc Lieb's second class victory, winning the 2005 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GT2 category with Alex Job Racing.

GTE Pro was for teams using 2011 spec cars or older and were allowed have a fully professional (gold and platinum) driver line up.

GTE Am was for teams with 2010 spec cars or older and could only have one professional or gold category driver in the line up.

Car 77 was a 2011 spec Porsche 997 GT3-RSR in LM GTE Pro driven by champions Lieb and Lietz.

The GTE Am Porsche also finished third in the championship out of four competitors and picked up a win in the opening round at Paul Ricard.

The team competed in that year's ILMC but only in the GTE Am class and restoring the old Proton Competition name of yesteryear.

88 in the Pro class, driven by Nick Tandy, Abdulaziz al-Faisal and Bryce Miller.

Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 996 GT3 -RS at the 2006 FIA GT Dubai 500km
Seikel Motorsport/Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 997 GT3 -RSR in the pit garage at the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans
Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 997 GT3 -RSR at the 2008 1000km of Silverstone
Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 997 GT3 -RSR at the 2009 1000 km of Spa