🇩🇪 Laurin Heinrich

Laurin Heinrich is an established professional competing in international sports car racing, currently driving for Porsche Penske Motorsport in the IMSA WeatherTech Championship and for Origine Motorsport in the Asian Le Mans Series. Graded FIA Gold, he races Porsche prototypes and GT3 cars in multiclass endurance fields shared across multiple drivers. His primary platform is IMSA, where he has taken eight wins and fourteen podiums from twenty-nine starts since 2024.[1]

Heinrich won the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech Championship with AO Racing, his first season-long title. His record in that series spans three seasons, yielding a mix of grid strength; he races closely with established professionals including two-time WEC champion Davide Rigon and 2023 WEC LMGTE Am champion Nicky Catsburg, against whom he has remained competitive. In endurance racing, he holds podiums from the 24H Series, Bathurst 12 Hour, and Asian Le Mans Series, contesting shared-drive fields that run from semi-professional through Gold and Platinum-graded drivers. His broader career began in formula racing; he contested ADAC Formula 4 in 2017, then moved through the Porsche Supercup, where he took two wins in eighteen starts for SSR Huber Racing, and into GT racing and touring cars with appearances in DTM and the GT World Challenge. His career total stands at 112 starts, 12 wins, and 32 podiums across eight indexed seasons. In 2026, he continues with IMSA and the Asian Le Mans Series while making his first World Endurance Championship starts.[2]

Among the gridmates he encounters regularly are professionals of considerably higher peak standing; he has finished ahead of Max Verstappen once and Alex Palou three times, though both raced sparingly in the endurance and sports car series where Heinrich competes. His principal team, AO Racing, has fielded established professional talent including Laurens Vanthoor and maintains a competitive record with twenty wins across its entries.