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Roock Racing
Roock Racing was started in 1990 by brothers Fabian and Michael Roock. Roock Racing swiftly became Europe's most successful Porsche customer racing team earning wins in world famous races such as the Porsche World Championship, Le Mans and Daytona victories.

It all began when Roock Racing was approached by a customer to maintain his club racing Porsche. At the end of the season, the customer's car finished fifth in the championship and Michael and Fabian were hooked on racing. Not only were they passionate about the competitiveness, but they also has vision for Roock Racing what maintaining and tuning high-end Porsche racing automobiles could lead to on the world stage. After several wins, Roock Motorsports was created.

Fabian Roock, being Roock Motorsports team manager, intensified his links to motor racing. After each step on the ladder of success and victory, Roock Racing set out for new challenges and made it clear that Roock was a hungry new team with a great racing future ahead. Roock Racing stepped into the world stage after victories at 24 Huers de Le Mans, Daytona 24 Hours, and FIA GT World Championships.

In mid-1999, Fabian Roock ventured to step over to the United States to campaign in the American Le Mans Series. The race shop was set up at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA. Roock Motorsports finished a strong second in both the 2000 and 2001 ALMS seaons.

In 2002 Roock Racing and Roock Motorsports ended it's successful career in Porsche racing. Roock Racing captured more wins than any other team in Porsche racing history. Since then Fabian Roock has been fully engaged as a motor sports manager and director for racing programs in the United States and Europe. Fabian Roock is still involved in every aspect of the racing process, including planning for the upcoming racing season for the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-Gran Turismo (GT) and Le Mans racing circuits, from managing the racing team during the season, analyzing the current performance of the team, serving as the think tank for the development and implementation of new automotive technologies to managing the public relations end of Roock Racing.

Currently Fabian Roock is operating a U.S.-based Porsche tuning company located in Atlanta, Georgia and Los Angeles, California, focused on designing and modifying factory fabricated Porsche cars into high performance vehicles for the auto enthusiasts.

Fabian Roock also plays a vital role for the automotive industry, leveraging 17 years of racing engineering experience to provide leadership in the market for automotive safety and development. Mr. Roock has overall responsibility for researching market place and customer needs, understanding competitive strategies, and formulating Roock automotive product advancements, market positioning, and sales support collaterals. His primary role is to seek out market and customer-specific technical opportunities and translate them into actionable engineering projects, sales programs, and marketing communications plans. He is also deeply involved with automotive manufacturers to build improved and safer cars with better fuel consumption and longer-lasting engines. His extensive experience working with companies and individuals both in the U.S. and abroad has bridged the gap between the different cultures, resulting in billions of dollars in revenue for the motor racing and performance industry.

Some of the most successful drivers in history have piloted Roock Racing Porsches, and in the 1990s many of the best pilots were eager to be driving race cars from ROOCK Racing.

Roock Racing Drivers:

Andre Ahrle Uwe Alzen

Ni Amorim

Max Angelelli

Michael Bartels

Willi Bergmeister

Manuel Breyner

Pedro Breyner

Thomaz Breyner

Zak Brown

Lilian Bryner

Max Bobach

Stefano Buttiero

Enzo Calderari

Pedro Chaves

Emanuelle Collard

Ugo Colombo

Yannick Dallmas

Steven Eaerl

Bruno Eichmann

Michael Eschmann

Rick Fairbanks

Christian Fittipaldi Emerson Fittipaldi

Mike Fitzgerald Chris Gleason

Earl Goddart

Patrice Goueslard

Hubert Haupt Mel Hawkins

Alfrid Heger Mike Hezemans

Claudia Huertgen

John Hugenholtz

Hugh Price Jean-Piere Jarrier

Manfred Jurasz Ralf Kelleners

Steven Knight

Dieter Koell

Francois Lafon Jan Lammers

Pedro Lamy Wolfgang Land

Jean Claude Lagniez

Michelle Ligonet

Juergen Lorenz

Jochem Maas

Sascha Maassen

Guy Martinolle

Allan McNish

Mark Montgomery

Robert Nearn Michel Neugarten

Kris Nissen Manabu Orido

Stephane Ortelli

Peter Owen

Jesus Parreira Andy Pilgrim

Prutirat Ratanakul S. Vic Rice

John Robinson

Gerd Ruch

Tomas Saldaña Raffaello Sanguillo

Rob Schirle Tim Sudgen

Nigel Smith

Martin Snow

Takashi Suzuki Spencer Trenery

Jurgen von Gartzen Vincent Voss

Hisashi Wada

Cort Wagner

David Warnock Karl Wendlinger

Tomiko Yoshikawa