🇧🇪 Josef Georges Franz

Josef Georges Franz is a competitive amateur who raced in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a multiclass endurance championship held in Germany where drivers share cars across 15 classes and compete against field mixes that include amateurs, semi-professionals, and graded professionals. His racing record spans five seasons from 2015 to 2019, primarily in the Cup 3 class driving a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport and in production-based classes in the series. He most frequently drove for Car #452.[1]

Across 25 starts over his career, Franz took one win and eight podiums. His most competitive season came in 2019, when he finished eighth in the championship standings with a podium finish from four rounds raced. His results came against a regular field that included multiple champions of the series; he typically finished behind both Daniel Zils, a three-time V5 class champion and FIA Bronze graded professional with over a century of Langstrecken-Serie starts, and Dominik Thiemann, a four-time V5 champion who remained a competitive amateur throughout. In the wider field he occasionally beat stronger drivers; he finished ahead of Edoardo Mortara, an elite professional and Formula 3 Euro Series champion with extensive Formula E experience, and Robin Frijns, an established professional with a WEC LMP2 championship and nearly a century of Formula E starts, each on one occasion.[2]