Konrad Motorsport eyes Blancpain Endurance and United SportsCar

Team boss Franz Konrad has revealed that he is planning a move back to the European endurance scene with either the new Lamborghini Huracan GT3 or the forthcoming 991-shape Porsche 911 GT3-R in 2016.

Konrad's entry into the BES would mark a return for the German team to a Stephane Ratel-organised series for the first time since the 2005 FIA GT Championship.

The team is competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany and the Lamborghini Super Trofeo this season.

"I'm tired of just doing one-make cup racing and I'm getting old, so I'd better come back to endurance racing soon," said Konrad.

"It will also to be good to race with Stephane again."

He revealed that he is at the advanced stages of planning a a dual endurance programme that could also incorporate the full Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

"For sure we will do the long ones at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen and Road Atlanta, but we could do a full programme in the US," explained Konrad.

A final decision on which car the team will run is imminent and Konrad suggested that Rolf Ineichen, who has raced for the team at Daytona and in the Carrera Cup this year, would be one of the drivers.

Konrad Motorsport was on the grid for the inaugural International GT Endurance Series race at Paul Ricard in March 1994 run by the BPR Organisation, of which Ratel was one of the founders.

The team was a regular Porsche entrant in the Global GT Endurance Series and then the FIA GT Championship until 2000.

It subsequently returned to FIA GTs with the Saleen S7R (pictured above) in 2003-05, before focusing on the Porsche Supercup and Carrera Cup in Germany until making a return to endurance racing at the 2013 Daytona 24 Hours.