It depends on where you are in the world as to where you might have come across the name Laurin Heinrich, because he's raced nearly everywhere. That is, if you’ve come across his name. My first introduction to the young Porsche driver was Petit Le Mans, 2024, just after his IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship win in the GTD Pro category with the #77 AO Racing Porsche 911-Rawr, Rexy. I, too, wondered who this young driver was, originally expecting him to be an older, seasoned professional.
Seasoned professional he is, even at the young age of 23, having graced the podiums of some of the top tier racing series in Europe and the US in just a few short years, including Porsche’s German Carrera Cup, DTM, and most recently, IMSA. And if it had not been for a string of good will and fortune, as well as a global pandemic — we might not know this young driver who brought AO Racing’s “Rexy” Porsche to win a series championship.
