Marco Holzer

Marco Holzer
Marco Holzer
Nationality	German
Born	30 July 1988 (age 36); Bobingen, Germany
FIA GT3 European Championship career
Current team	Paul Miller Racing
Car number	48
Years
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2010 –
Teams	BMS Scuderia Italia; Prospeed Competition
Best finish	14th (2010)
Class wins	0

Marco Holzer (born 30 July 1988) is a German professional racing driver. He has competed in sports car competitions such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona, American Le Mans Series and Le Mans Series as a Porsche works driver.

Career

Born in Bobingen, Bavaria, Holzer graduated from karting in 2003, and raced at the Formula BMW ADAC formula championship from 2004 to 2006. In 2006 he competed at the Formula 3 Euro Series, where he scored no points.

In 2008, Holzer switched to sports car racing, finishing fifth at the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. He signed as Porsche junior works driver, and raced at the 2009 FIA GT Championship for Prospeed and VLN for Manthey, in both cases driving a Porsche 911.

The German became a Porsche works driver in 2010. That year, he resulted vice-champion at the FIA GT3 European Championship for Prospeed with two wins. Also, he raced in several endurance races, such as the VLN for Manthey, the Le Mans Series for Prospeed, Petit Le Mans for Flying Lizard, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans for BMS Scuderia Italia, resulting 3rd in the GT2 class.

Holzer competed partial-time at the 2011 American Le Mans Series for Flying Lizard, the five rounds of the Le Mans Series for Prospeed, and the VLN, where he got an overall win with a hybrid Porsche 911.^[1]

In 2012, he raced full-time at the American Le Mans Series for Flying Lizard in the GT class, collecting a best result of 5th at Virginia, and the International GT Open for Manthey, winning three races and resulting vice-champion in the Super GT class. The driver switched to Paul Miller Racing for the 2013 American Le Mans Series, still as Porsche works driver, resulting 13th in the GT class.

Holzer was dropped by Porsche in late 2014.

In 2016, the German joined Abt Sportsline to compete at the ADAC GT Masters with a Bentley Continental GT.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	Pos.
2004	Formula BMW ADAC	AM-Holzer Rennsport	19	0	0	0	4	20th
2005	Formula BMW ADAC	AM-Holzer Rennsport	19	0	0	0	41	13th
2005	Formula BMW World Final	AM-Holzer Rennsport	1	1	0	0	N/A	1st
2006	Formula BMW ADAC	AM-Holzer Rennsport	18	3	2	3	129	3rd
2006	Formula One	BMW Sauber	Test driver
2007	Formula 3 Euro Series	AM-Holzer Rennsport	20	0	0	0	0	19th

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2010	BMS Scuderia Italia	Richard Westbrook Timo Scheider	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	327	14th	3rd
2011	Prospeed Competition	Marc Goossens Jaap van Lagen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	293	23rd	8th
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	114	DNF	DNF
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	Frédéric Makowiecki Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	337	15th	3rd