Porshe and CORE autosport regular Patrick Long will be joined by some new and old faces for next year’s TUDOR United SportsCar Championship for the German manufacturer’s North American GT Le Mans factory program.

While Richard Lietz, Nick Tandy and Michael Christensen have contested endurance races in the US in the past, the trio will now contest the full championship in 2014.

Long’s old Flying Lizard teammate Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Pilet will join the team for the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Car no. 911 will be driven by Tandy (Great Britain) and Lietz (Austria), while car no. 912 will compete with Long (USA) and Christensen (Denmark) at the helm for the full season.

The no. 911Tandy/Lietz/Pilet Porsche and the no. 912 Long/Christensen/Bergmeister entry will make their on-track debut at the ROAR Before the Rolex 24, January 3 – 5, 2014. The effort will utilize the new Porsche 911 RSR, the same as the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans LM GTE-Pro class-winning entries. The headquarters for the program will be at Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA) in Santa Ana, Calif. CORE autosport will act as the competition partner for the program.

There is a wealth of endurance racing championship experience with this driver lineup, with Lietz scoring class wins at both the Rolex 24 (2012) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2010, 2013); and Patrick Long winning his class at the Rolex 24 (2009), 12 Hours of Sebring (2005), 24 Hours of Le Mans (2004, 2007), and Petit Le Mans (2005, 2006, 2007). Christensen, in his first year as a Porsche Junior in 2013, finished sixth in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup series season standings with one event win in addition to the Rookie of the Year title.

Tandy finished the 2013 American Le Mans Series with a flare by co-driving to the GT class victory at Petit Le Mans. Bergmeister has won the Rolex 24 (2002, 2003, 2009), 12 Hours of Sebring (2004, 2005, 2008), 24 Hours of Le Mans (2004), and Petit Le Mans 2003 – 2007). Pilet, a former Porsche Carrera Cup France champion, has a win at the 24 Hours of Dubai to his credit.

The 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona will take place January 25 – 26, 2014.