Franz Konrad

Franz Konrad, born on 8 June 1951 in Graz, is an Austrian former racing driver who founded the racing team Konrad Motorsport in 1976. As a driver he won the 1983 German Formula Three Championship in an Anson SA4-Toyota, took a career-best second place at the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Jaguar, and won the 1993 Nurburgring 24 Hours overall in a Porsche 911. He was also among the drivers of the class-winning Porsche GT2 Twin Turbo at the 1998 24 Hours of Daytona, and he won the Porsche Cup, the award given to the most successful privateer racing driver using Porsche machinery, in 1997 and 1998. Konrad was also the constructor of the Konrad KM-011, a Group C sportscar that used Lamborghini power.