🇩🇪 Ralf Kelleners

Ralf Kelleners is a professional endurance racing driver from Germany, rated FIA Silver, competing in multiclass prototype racing. He races LMP3 prototypes for Racing Spirit of Leman in the Le Mans Cup and Road to Le Mans championships. His career on record spans four seasons from 1997 to the present, with twenty starts across national and international endurance grids that field a mix of amateur and professional drivers.[1]

Kelleners won twice in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie in 2010, taking both starts in the SP 7 class. His major experience came in the FIA GT Championship in 1997, where he took two podiums across nine starts for Porsche AG, racing against established professionals including Formula 1 drivers. He has since returned to endurance racing with Racing Spirit of Leman in the Le Mans Cup and Road to Le Mans from 2023 onwards, taking seven starts in the multiclass Le Mans Cup across its LMP3 divisions.[2]

In the FIA GT Championship, Kelleners raced against a grid including former Formula 1 drivers Alessandro Nannini and Thierry Boutsen, finishing ahead of Nannini multiple times and beating Boutsen once in their meetings. He was closely matched with Nannini and Pierre-Henri Raphanel, both established professionals with significant single-seater careers, across the 1997 season.