🇹🇷 Ayhancan Güven

Ayhancan Güven is an established professional racing driver holding Platinum FIA grading. He competes across multiple series for Manthey Racing and its affiliated teams, with his primary platform the DTM, a national single-class sprint championship in Germany where he races for Manthey EMA. He also contests international endurance racing, including the World Endurance Championship for Manthey DK Engineering and shared-car GT championships across Europe and Asia.[1]

Güven won the 2025 DTM title with Manthey EMA, taking five wins across a full season to secure the championship. His endurance career spans professional-level competition in the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the Asian Le Mans Series (where he took a win in 2023), the Bathurst 12 Hour GT3 class, and now the WEC; across these categories he has recorded 15 podiums from 34 starts. In the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, a single-marque series where he raced from 2019 to 2021, he scored four wins and thirteen podiums from twenty-five starts. His current WEC campaign sits second in the championship standings after five rounds, with one podium finish so far this season.[2]

His regular opponents in the DTM and GT World Challenge Europe include Ricardo Feller and Maro Engel, both established professionals with Platinum grading and multiple championship credentials; he runs closely matched against both. He has finished ahead of stronger drivers including Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional who has raced IndyCar and won the Indy NXT title, and Broc Feeney, the 2025 Supercars Championship winner. Manthey EMA, his primary team across 37 starts, operates as an established outfit with twenty-two wins across the index and has fielded drivers including established professional Laurens Vanthoor.