Porsche has confirmed its 2025 lineup for the Penske-run factory LMDh programme running in the IMSA Sportscar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship.
Andre Lotterer, currently racing in the WEC, and Dane Cameron, in IMSA, will leave Porsche’s factory LMDH lineup. Fred Makowiecki, meanwhile, will leave the German manufacturer altogether, after 11 years at Porsche.
In WEC, Porsche will drop down to two drivers per team. This means Lotterer will not be replaced in the #6 Porsche, with Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor the 2025 lineup.
In the sister #5 car, Makowiecki will be replaced by Julien Andlauer, joining Michael Christensen.
For the longer races in WEC, held at Qatar, Le Mans, and Bahrain, they’ll be joined by Mathieu Jaminet in the #5, and Matt Campbell in the #6.
Jaminet and Campbell’s full time seats, meanwhile, will be in IMSA. The two will reunite their successful GT racing partnership in the #6 car, with Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy in the #7. For the longer endurance races, they’ll be joined by Estre and Vanthoor from the WEC programme.
Comings and going at Porsche
Andlauer has been racing the customer 963 campaigned by Proton Competition in 2024, with leading pace in the car. Before this, he raced in various GT championships with Porsche, and has dovetailed his WEC campaign with a campaign in the European Le Mans Series in the LMGT3 class.
Meanwhile, Lotterer has been a factory driver for Porsche since 2017, when he left Audi. He’s been part of the LMDh programme for the last two years, and has won two races this year and leads the WEC championship by 35 points alongside Estre and Vanthoor, going into the final round at Bahrain next weekend.
Fred Makowiecki has been with Porsche since 2014. He’s driven in hundreds of races for Porsche, including 11 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, winning the race in GTE-Pro in 2022. He also finished second in the WEC GT championship twice, in 2014 and 2017. He was the first driver to drive the 963 in its rollout at Weissach, and has raced for the factory programme the past two years.
“I’d like to thank Dane Cameron, André Lotterer and Frédéric Makowiecki for their incredible work over the past few years. All three have played a significant role in us being able to celebrate great successes with the Porsche 963 on both sides of the Atlantic – in just the second year of competition,” states Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport.
“We compete in 2025 with a changed lineup. Our squad continues to be among the top echelons of endurance racing internationally. Plus, we’re remaining dedicated to our very successful initiative by supporting another former Porsche Junior to climb to the top of the career ladder. Over the past few seasons, Julien Andlauer has impressed us at the wheel of every Porsche racing car from Weissach. He absolutely deserves this promotion into the works driver squad.”
“We put much thought into our squad for next season’s international racing campaign. With the new lineup, I believe we’ve put together a winning combination for 2025,” explains Urs Kuratle, Director Factory Motorsport LMDh.
“We’ll have two very experienced drivers in both series, plus two drivers in sister cars, all of whom have come up through the ranks of Porsche’s junior programme and completely won us over as talented youngsters. I’d also like to thank Dane Cameron, André Lotterer and Frédéric Makowiecki. All three have contributed to getting the Porsche Penske Motorsport campaign to where it now stands in global endurance racing: at the top.”
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