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{{short description|German racing driver}}
{{Infobox Le Mans driver
|Name = Reinhold Joest
|Image = Reinhold Joest - Team Owner, Audi Sport Team Joest (8668749638).jpg
|Caption = Joest at the [[2013 6 Hours of Silverstone]]
|Nationality = {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany|German]]
|Years = [[1969 24 Hours of Le Mans|1969]], [[1971 24 Hours of Le Mans|1971]] - [[1973 24 Hours of Le Mans|1973]], [[1975 24 Hours of Le Mans|1975]] - [[1976 24 Hours of Le Mans|1976]], [[1980 24 Hours of Le Mans|1980]] - [[1981 24 Hours of Le Mans|1981]]
|Team(s) = Deutsche Auto Zeitung, [[Martini Racing]], [[Jo Siffert]] A.T.E. Racing, [[Joest Racing]]
|Best Finish = 2nd ([[1980 24 Hours of Le Mans|1980]])
|Class Wins = 0
}}
'''Reinhold Joest''' (also spelt '''Reinhold Jöst'''; born 24 April 1937) is a former [[Germany|German]] [[race car]] driver and current team owner.  During the last 25 years, [[Joest Racing]] has won the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] fifteen times.

==Driving career==
Joest's driving career began in 1962 in a local [[Hillclimbing|hillclimb]] race in the [[Odenwald]] mountains. He had won two German championships in that category by 1967. Since 1966, he raced successfully on the [[Nürburgring]], scoring a class win at the [[1000 km Nürburgring]]. He won the race overall twice, in 1970 and 1980, and a total five class wins.

Joest's first entry in the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] was in 1968, with a [[Ford GT40]] co-driven by [[Helmut Kelleners]] and sponsored by a German car magazine. His first remarkable result came in 1972, after the dominating [[Porsche 917]] and similar cars were not allowed anymore. Without any modern cars available, Joest borrowed an outdated 3.0&nbsp;L [[Porsche 908]]/02 Langheck Coupé from the [[Jo Siffert]] Museum. He and his two co-drivers finished third with the 1969 model car. Despite being part of factory Porsche teams on several occasions, he never managed to be in their winning car. He came close in 1980, finishing second together with [[Jacky Ickx]] in his privately entered [[Porsche 936]] that was called a "[[Porsche 908]]/80" as Porsche did not officially sell the 936.

Despite never winning as a driver at Le Mans, Joest ended his driving career in style. After winning the [[24 Hours of Daytona]] in a [[Porsche 935]] and on the [[Nürburgring]] with his Porsche 908/3 Turbo in 1980 (both with [[Rolf Stommelen]]), he went on to win several German [[Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft|DRM]] races in 1981 with a mighty [[Porsche 935]] "Moby Dick".  He retired after winning the [[Kyalami]] 9 Hours with [[Jochen Mass]] at the end of the year.

===Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
|-
! Year
! Team
! Co-Drivers
! Car
! Class
! Laps
! {{Tooltip|Pos.|Overall Position}}
! {{Tooltip|Class<br>Pos.|Class Position}}
|-
! [[1969 24 Hours of Le Mans|1969]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} Deutsche Auto Zeitung
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Helmut Kelleners]]
|align="left"| [[Ford GT40]] Mk.I
| S 5.0
| 341
| 6th
|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| '''3rd'''
|-
! [[1971 24 Hours of Le Mans|1971]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Martini Racing]] Team 
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Willi Kauhsen]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 917]]/20
| S 5.0
| 180
| DNF
| DNF
|-
! [[1972 24 Hours of Le Mans|1972]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Jo Siffert]] A.T.E. Racing
|align="left"| {{flagicon|ITA}} {{ill|Mario Casoni|lt=Mario Casoni|it}}<br>{{flagicon|GER}} {{ill|Michel Weber (racing driver)|de|Michel Weber (Rennfahrer)|lt=Michel Weber}}
|align="left"| [[Porsche 908]]LH
| S 3.0
| 325
|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| '''3rd'''
|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| '''3rd'''
|-
! [[1973 24 Hours of Le Mans|1973]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Martini Racing]] Team
|align="left"| {{flagicon|CHE}} [[Claude Haldi]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 911]] Carrera RSR
| S 3.0
| 54
| DNF
| DNF
|-
! [[1975 24 Hours of Le Mans|1975]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} Ovoro [[Joest Racing]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|ITA}} {{ill|Mario Casoni|lt=Mario Casoni|it}}<br>{{flagicon|GER}} [[Jürgen Barth]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 908]]LH
| S 3.0
| 325
| 4th
| 4th
|-
! [[1976 24 Hours of Le Mans|1976]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Martini Racing]] [[Joest Racing|Joest]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Jürgen Barth]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 936]] Spyder
| S 3.0
| 
| DNF
| DNF
|-
! [[1978 24 Hours of Le Mans|1978]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Martini Racing]] [[Porsche in motorsport|Porsche System]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Peter Gregg (racing driver)|Peter Gregg]]<br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[Hurley Haywood]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 936/77]]
| S<br>+2.0
| 362
|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| '''3rd'''
|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| '''3rd'''
|-
! [[1980 24 Hours of Le Mans|1980]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Joest Racing|Equipe Liqui Moly]] – [[Martini Racing]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Jacky Ickx]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 908]]/80
| S<br>+2.0
| 336
|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| '''2nd'''
|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| '''2nd'''
|-
! [[1981 24 Hours of Le Mans|1981]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Joest Racing]]
|align="left"| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Dale Whittington]]<br>{{flagicon|DEU}} [[Klaus Niedzwiedz]]
|align="left"| [[Porsche 908]]
| S+2.0
| 60
| 39th
| 10th
|}

==See also==
*[[Joest Racing]]

==External links==
{{commons category|Reinhold Joest}}
*[http://www.joest-racing.de Joest Racing official site]

{{24 Hours of Daytona winners}}

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