🇨🇿 Reinhard Kofler

Reinhard Kofler is a professional endurance racing driver, FIA Silver graded, racing shared-drive cars in multiclass championships. His indexed career spans from 2004 to 2022 across Formula Renault, GT championship and endurance series at the Nürburgring and internationally. He drove for True Racing in the 24H Series and Nürburgring 24 Hours, and for Team Mathol Racing in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie.[1]

His early career included a single-driver run in Formula Renault Eurocup in 2004 and 2005, where he scored a win and five podiums across 20 starts for Cram Competition, a field that included future GP2 champions Davide Valsecchi and Pastor Maldonado; Kofler finished ahead of both drivers multiple times. He made a single appearance in the FIA GT Championship in 2007. His endurance racing career began in earnest in 2018 with the 24H Series, a multiclass international championship mixing GT and silhouette cars across amateur and professional grades; he took podiums in all three of his starts there. From 2019 onward he raced the Nürburgring 24 Hours multiple times, winning once and adding two further podiums in three starts. In the German-based Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a multiclass endurance series where he drove Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and KTM X-Bow cars, he took a win and four podiums across ten starts from 2021 to 2023.[2]

In endurance racing fields mixing amateurs with established professionals, Kofler typically ran in the middle order. He met Michael Ammermüller, a Platinum-graded former Porsche Supercup champion with extensive single-seater experience, on a regular basis and remained closely matched; he also finished ahead of Mikhail Aleshin, a Platinum-graded driver with 87 Formula V8 3.5 starts and 47 IndyCar entries, in their shared races.