{"id":77046,"date":"2025-11-19T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/?p=77046"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:13:54","slug":"motul-lubricated-manthey-porsche-becomes-lmgt3-world-champions-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/index.php\/motul-lubricated-manthey-porsche-becomes-lmgt3-world-champions-again\/77046","title":{"rendered":"Motul-lubricated Manthey Porsche becomes LMGT3 world champions again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from numerous successes over the course of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship season, Motul\u2019s partner team, Manthey Racing has now been crowned 2025 World Champion in the LMGT3 Category.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The drivers of the number 92 Manthey 1ST Phorm car \u2013 Richard Lietz, Ryan Hardwick and Riccardo Pera have also been crowned 2025 LMGT3 World Endurance Drivers Champions.<\/p>\n<p>After wins at both Imola and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a fourth-placed finish in the final round of the Championship, the Rolex 6 Hours of Bahrain \u2013 one place better than their nearest title rivals \u2013 was enough to secure the title for the crack German squad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"502\" class=\" wp-image-77047 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1.png 2000w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1-1024x691.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1-800x540.png 800w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Motul-1-1536x1037.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to wish everyone at Manthey Racing huge congratulations on the Manthey 1st Phorm number 92 Porsche and its driving team becoming this year\u2019s LMGT3 World Champions,\u201d declared Motul UK\u2019s head of business, Andy Wait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI visited Manthey earlier in the year and it is an incredibly impressive set up. You can understand how they have become successful, and we are delighted that Motul has been able to contribute to Manthey securing World Championship honours again this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second successive year that the Motul-partnered Manthey cars have taken both the LMGT3 World Endurance Championship and victory at the season\u2019s blue riband event, the Le Mans 24 Hours. This comes in addition to the Motul-lubricated Manthey Porsches winning the prestigious DTM Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Manthey team use Motul products in their programme of both race and fast road cars and, not only are the Porsche race cars using Motul\u2019s flagship 300V race oil, but also other key product lines \u2013 such as Motul RBF 700 Brake fluid \u2013 among various other Motul products.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneers of Synthetic Engine Oils in the automotive industry, more than half a century ago, Motul has long been a byword for both innovation and quality, in the lubricant and fluids sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from numerous successes over the course of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship season, Motul\u2019s partner team, Manthey Racing has now been crowned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":77047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[2030],"class_list":["post-77046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aftermarket","category-news","tag-motul","cat-7-id","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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