The new champion is the old champion from Meuspath. Congratulations! Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz, and Ryan Hardwick won the LMGT3 drivers’ championship with the “Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche 911 GT3 R” carrying the #92. The team also secured the LMGT3 team championship.

The championship team remains undefeated at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as in both the team and drivers’ championships, successfully defending the FIA Endurance Trophy. This is a real feat, as competition in the LMGT3 class, introduced in 2024, is incredibly fierce. Yet many in the WEC (World Endurance Championship) only focus on the Hypercars – the LMDh prototypes.

Across the eight races of this year’s championship, Manthey 1st Phorm celebrated two podium finishes in the highly competitive LMGT3 class with victories at Imola and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Heading into the finale last weekend in Bahrain, Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz, and Ryan Hardwick arrived with 105 points.

A difficult qualifying session and the 17th starting position made the battle for the LMGT3 title at the Persian Gulf exciting once again. Over the eight-hour race distance, the LMGT3 911 equipped with KW V6 Racing suspension climbed 13 positions. In the end, fourth place in the LMGT3 classification was enough for the driver trio in the Porsche 911 GT3 R (#92) to bring the world championship back to Meuspath once more.

In 2025, the LMGT3 field comprised 24 high-caliber LMGT3 sports cars based on GT3 race cars from manufacturers Aston Martin, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, Lexus, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG, and Porsche.

We equip the Aston Martin AMR Vantage GT3 Evo, BMW M4 GT3 Evo, and Porsche 911 GT3 R with our five-way adjustable KW V6 Racing dampers built on the solid-piston principle.

In the championship, the Aston Martin teams “Heart of Racing Team” (#27) and “Racing Spirit of Leman” (#10), the BMW teams “The Bend Team WRT” (#31) and “Team WRT” (#46), as well as the Porsche crews “Manthey 1st Phorm” (#92) and “Iron Dames” (#85) competed with homologated KW V6 Racing suspension – with the entire Iron Dames team being an all-female crew.

WEC LMGT3 Team Standings for KW Motorsport Customers

• 1st place with 123 championship points: Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz, and Ryan Hardwick from Manthey 1st Phorm (Porsche 911 GT3 R #92)
• 4th place with 86 championship points: Clemens Schmid, Jose Maria Lopez, and Petru Umbrarescu from Heart of Racing Team (Aston Martin AMR Vantage GT3 Evo #27)
• 8th place with 52 championship points: Ahmad Al Harthy, Kelvin van der Linde, and Valentino Rossi from Team WRT (BMW M4 GT3 Evo #46)
• 10th place with 49 championship points: Augusto Farfus, Timur Boguslavskiy, Yasser Shahin from The Bend Team WRT (BMW M4 GT3 Evo #31)
• 15th place with 32 championship points: Eduardo Barrichello and Valentin Hasse Clot from Racing Spirit of Leman (Aston Martin AMR Vantage GT3 Evo #10)
• 17th place with 19 championship points: Célia Martin and Rahel Frey from Iron Dames (Porsche 911 GT3 R #85)

Photos: Aston Martin, BMW, Porsche, KW