More than a Race Team: The Other Side of Manthey’s Business

Mention the name Manthey Racing and you immediately think of the successful race team.

That’s hardly surprising as this year Manthey is already celebrating victory at the Bathurst 12 Hour and will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 class, while also defending its DTM title won last year with driver Thomas Preining.

However, alongside its racing ventures, behind the scenes the company has developed and introduced a range of products it uses at race circuits to give it the competitive advantage.

Each item has been carefully thought through and designed to the highest specification, making them an attractive proposition to teams racing in prototypes and GTs, as well as road car applications, too.

Manthey Racing was formed in 1996 by former driver, Olaf Manthey, and has competed consistently at a high level since then. Now managed by brothers Nicolas and Martin Raeder, the team is firmly established in German and international motorsport.

Since 2013, Manthey has been responsible for running GTE-Pro works entries for Porsche Motorsport at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as providing engineering support to other customer outfits in various series.

Fast and efficient teamwork in the pits is the cornerstone of these performance balanced GT classes. That means teams need to look at all aspects of performance not governed by the rules, and that points towards slick pit work.

Manthey soon established that couldn’t find anything suitable to match its specifications, so it decided to make its own equipment, and it was quickly noticed by other teams who came on board as customers.

Realising there was a market for its engineering expertise, Manthey continued to produce the equipment for all racing teams, while also diversifying into automotive applications.

Far from being unique to GT racing, the versatile equipment is also suitable for prototype competition, including LMP2 and LMP3, and appropriate for use in single-seater categories.



Key among the developments is a wheel measuring system that allows for high accuracy when setting up the car in the garage prior to any session. The package is compact but has everything a race engineer needs to prepare the car, including a levelling laser, camber gauge, universal steering wheel gauge, track width…