In 2013 the Porsche 911 is celebrating its 50th anniversary and almost since then the cult car has been successful on the race track.

“I am always amazed what the engineers at Porsche Motorsport still can squeeze out of a concept that in its base hasn’t changes for half a century," Manthey said. "I am really looking forward to return to Le Mans, the last time I fielded a car there was in 1999 and we won the GT class straightaway. I wouldn’t mind to repeat this result in this year's edition.”

Besides its WEC program Manthey and his mechanics are also busy preparing for another assault on the VLN and the 24 Hours Nürburgring-Nordschleife.

“We will field our 2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR that we raced in the International GT Open in this years VLN season," he confirmed. "Our famous green and yellow paint scheme will return to the Green Hell after a year's absence. Besides that, I will again field the RSR of the Wochenspiegel Team Manthey plus two Cup Porsche for long standing customers. New in my stable is the Porsche 997 GT3 R of Pinta Racing, which will be updated to 2013 Spec."

The Raeder Motorsport name will also not disappear from the VLN entry list, as the team will still field one of their Audi TT-RS with Jürgen Wohlfahrt, Elmar Deegener and Christoph Breuer returning for another season. The trio will switch classes down to the SP3T, where it will surely fight for the championship.

“Besides fielding our customer TT-RS we will also give technical support to the other TT-RS customers we had over the year, this will be about 4 to 5 cars, “ Nicki Raeder concluded.