Moritz Kranz

Moritz Kranz
Kranz in 2022
NationalityGermany German
Born (1987-07-07) 7 July 1987 (age 39)
Linz am Rhein, Germany
Categorisation FIA Bronze (2015–2021)
FIA Silver (2022–)
Championship titles
2023
2018–2019
2017–2018
2017		PETN – Cup 2
VLN Series – Cup 2
Cayman GT4 Trophy
VLN Series – Cup 3

Moritz Kranz (born 7 July 1987) is a German racing driver who last competed in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for Gamota Racing.

Career

Kranz began karting in 1998, before stopping in 2008 on financial grounds, only to make his car racing debut four years later. Until 2015, Kranz competed in the Rundstrecken Challenge Nürburgring and the VLN Series on a part-time basis, culminating in his 24 Hours of Nürburgring debut. He undertook his first full VLN season in 2016, and made a cameo in the Mazda MX-5 Cup Global Invitational.

Moving to Porsche-fielding Mühlner Motorsport for 2017, Kranz won VLN's Cup 3 and Cayman GT4 titles with Hamza Owega and Alex Schula, while also making a one-off outing in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge with Gabriele Piana. Primarily continuing in the VLN Series in 2018, Kranz sealed the Cup 2 title on debut alongside Marcel Hoppe and Tim Scheerbarth, as well as securing his second Cayman GT4 title and winning the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in Cup 3. That year, Kranz also made select outings for Mühlner in the SprintX GT Championship Series and GT4 European Series, taking an Am class win at Spa in the latter. In 2019, Kranz clinched his second consecutive VLN Cup 2 title with Hoppe, finished third in Cup 3, and also won the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in SP7.

In 2020, Kranz entered the Le Mans Cup in LMP3 with Mühlner. Despite being a bronze-rated driver, he set the fastest lap at Le Castellet, and took a podium at the Portimão finale with Alex Kapadia to finish ninth in points. In parallel, Kranz also competed in the newly-renamed Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, finishing runner-up in SP7 and third in the Cup 3 standings. Moving stateside for 2021, Kranz won three of six IMSA Prototype Challenge races to secure runner-up honours — Daytona with Laurents Hörr, Mid-Ohio solo, and Road Atlanta with Ugo de Wilde. He also scored pole and third place in LMP3 at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Over in Europe, Kranz and De Wilde claimed pole and won race two of the Road to Le Mans for Mühlner. In NLS, Kranz reunited with GetSpeed Performance to drive a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, guiding Janine Shoffner to the SP9 Am title on his GT3 debut with six class wins from six starts.

After an upgrade to silver for 2022, Kranz focused on GT3 competition, moving to the International GT Open to partner Janine Shoffner at GetSpeed in the Pro-Am class. After three class podiums and three overall top fives at the Hungaroring and Red Bull Ring, a crash for Shoffner at Monza brought the season to a premature end, with the Mercedes unable to be fixed in time for the Barcelona finale. That year, Kranz also won the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in the Cup 2 class for KKrämer Racing, and returned to Mühlner's LMP3 stable for the 24 Hours of Daytona.

In 2023, Kranz remained with KKrämer Racing to share a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) with Christopher Brück in the new Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring, securing three wins, two poles and seven podiums to clinch the Cup 2 title. Kranz also competed for AWA at the 24 Hours of Daytona in LMP3, and took class podiums at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and 12 Hours of Kuwait for KKrämer. Kranz then returned to Mühlner Motorsport ahead of the 2024 PETN season, in which he took four podiums and was ninth in the Cup 2 standings.

After a shoulder injury in testing left him on the sidelines for 2025, Kranz began acting as an engineer for Mühlner's PETN programme, which won the Cup 2 title that year. In 2026, Kranz returned to racing, joining Gamota Racing to race a BMW M4 GT3 Evo in the SP9 Pro-Am class of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie alongside David Jahn and Antal Zsigó. With the team, Kranz scored a lone class win at NLS3, as well as helping the team secure three pole positions to end the year fourth in points.

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2015 24 Hours of Nürburgring – SP6 Prosport-Performance GmbH 1 0 0 0 0 N/a DNF
2016 VLN Series StilGut Team GetSpeed
Mazda MX-5 Cup Global Invitational 2 0 0 0 0 98 4th
2017 VLN Series – Cup 3 Mühlner Motorsport 1st
Cayman GT4 Trophy 1st
24 Hours of Nürburgring – SP10 1 0 0 0 0 N/a DNF
Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge – GS Mühlner Motorsports America 1 0 0 0 0 22 30th
2018 VLN Series – Cup 2 Mühlner Motorsport 1st
VLN Series – Cup 3 2nd
Cayman GT4 Trophy 1st
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 3 1 1 0 0 1 N/a 1st
SprintX GT Championship Series – GTS Pro-Am Mühlner Motorsports America 4 0 0 0 0 28 30th
SprintX GT Championship Series – GTS Am 2 0 0 0 0 44 19th
GT4 European Series – Am Mühlner Motorsport 2 1 1 1 2 43 12th
2019 VLN Series – Cup 2 Mühlner Motorsport 8 6 0 0 7 47.5 1st
VLN Series – Cup 3 8 5 0 0 6 55.26 3rd
24 Hours of Nürburgring – SP7 1 1 0 0 1 N/a 1st
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/a 4th
2020 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie – SP7 Mühlner Motorsport 4 3 0 0 4 35.13 2nd
Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie – Cup 3 4 3 0 0 4 36.84 3rd
Le Mans Cup – LMP3 7 0 0 1 1 34.5 9th
Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America – Am TPC Racing 2 0 1 0 2 23 3rd
24H GT Series Europe – 991 Mühlner Motorsport 1 1 0 0 1 28 7th
24H GT Series Europe – Cayman 1 1 0 0 1 0 NC
2021 IMSA Prototype Challenge – LMP3-1 Mühlner Motorsports America 6 3 6 0 4 1840 2nd
IMSA SportsCar Championship – LMP3 1 0 1 0 1 0 NC
Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie – SP9 Am GetSpeed Performance 6 6 6 0 6 43.74 2nd
24 Hours of Nürburgring – SP9 Pro-Am 1 0 0 0 0 N/a 4th
Le Mans Cup – LMP3 Mühlner Motorsport 2 1 1 0 1 16.5 18th
GT4 European Series – Pro-Am Selleslagh Racing Team 2 0 0 0 1 27 16th
2022 IMSA Prototype Challenge – LMP3 Mühlner Motorsports America 0 0 0 0 0 0 44th
IMSA SportsCar Championship – LMP3 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring – Cup 2 KKrämer Racing 5 0 0 0 0 0 NC
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 2 1 1 0 0 1 N/a 1st
Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie – SP9 Pro-Am Team GetSpeed Performance 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
International GT Open – Pro-Am GetSpeed Performance 10 0 0 1 3 45 6th
2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship – LMP3 AWA 1 0 0 0 0 0 41st
Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring – Cup 2 KKrämer Racing 9 3 2 0 7 151.5 1st
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 2 Pro 1 0 0 0 1 N/a 2nd
2023–24 Middle East Trophy – 992 KKrämer Racing 1 0 0 0 1 32 NC
2024 Prototype Winter Series – Class 3 Mühlner Motorsport 1 0 0 0 0 2.14 20th
Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring – Cup 2 7 0 0 0 4 69.5 9th
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 2 Pro 1 0 0 0 0 N/a 4th
2026 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie – SP9 Pro-Am Gamota Racing 8 1 3 0 6 52 4th
24 Hours of Nürburgring – Cup 2 Am Mühlner Motorsport 1 0 0 0 1 N/a 2nd
24H Series – GT3 Gamota Racing 1 0 0 0 0 24 32nd
Sources:

† As Kranz was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete 24 Hours of Nürburgring results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2015 Germany Prosport-Performance GmbH Switzerland Klaus Bauer
Australia Richard Gartner
Germany Andreas Patzelt		 Porsche Cayman R SP6 49 DNF DNF
2017 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport United States Peter Ludwig
Belgium Bruno Beulen		 Porsche Cayman GT4 SP10 51 DNF DNF
2018 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Germany Tobias Müller
Germany Timo Mölig
Germany Michael Rebhan		 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport Cup 3 122 28th 1st
Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Germany Marcel Hoppe
Germany Jürgen von Gartzen
Germany Sebastian von Gartzen		 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport Cup 3 122 29th 2nd
2019 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Germany Marcel Hoppe
Canada Mark J. Thomas
Germany Sebastian von Gartzen		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup SP7 149 14th 1st
Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Germany Thorsten Jung
Germany Michael Rebhan
Germany Alexander Schula		 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR Cup 3 135 46th 4th
2021 Germany GetSpeed Performance Finland Markus Palttala
United States John Shoffner
Belgium Maxime Soulet		 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo SP9
Pro-Am		 58 14th 4th
2022 Germany KKrämer Racing Germany Christopher Brück
Germany Karsten Krämer
Germany Alexey Vermenko		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) Cup 2 151 15th 1st
2023 Germany KKrämer Racing Germany Michele Di Martino
Germany Herbert Lösch
Germany Noah Nagelsdiek		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) Cup2
Pro		 149 22nd 2nd
2024 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport United Kingdom Alex Brundle
Germany Ben Bünnagel
Germany Michael Rebhan		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) Cup2
Pro		 48 23rd 4th
Belgium Mühlner Motorsport United Kingdom Alex Brundle
Germany Peter Terting
Germany Tobias Vazquez-Garcia		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) Cup2
Pro		 1 DNF DNF
2026 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Hungary Adam Benko
Hungary Csaba Walter
Slovakia Antal Zsigó		 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992.1) Cup2
Am		 145 21st 2nd

Complete Le Mans Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Class Chassis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rank Points
2020 Mühlner Motorsport LMP3 Duqueine M30 - D08 RIC
4		 SPA
11		 LEC
11		 LMS
1
7		 LMS
2
12		 MNZ
Ret		 POR
2		 9th 34.5
2021 Mühlner Motorsport LMP3 Duqueine M30 - D08 BAR
 LEC
 MNZ
 LMS
1
18		 LMS
2
1		 SPA
 POR
 18th 16.5

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rank Points
2021 Mühlner Motorsports America LMP3 Duqueine D-08 Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8 DAY
3		 SEB MOH WGL WGL ELK PET NC 0
2022 Mühlner Motorsports America LMP3 Duqueine D-08 Nissan VK56 V8 5.6L V8 DAY
9		 SEB
 MOH
 WGL
 MOS
 ELK
 ATL
 NC 0
2023 AWA LMP3 Duqueine D-08 Nissan VK56 V8 5.6L V8 DAY
4		 SEB
 WGL
 MOS
 ELK
 IMS
 ATL
 41st 0

Complete International GT Open results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Points
2022 GetSpeed Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Pro-Am EST
1
6		 EST
2
4		 LEC
1
8		 LEC
2
4		 SPA
5		 HUN
1
3		 HUN
2
2		 RBR
1
4		 RBR
2
2		 MNZ
1
5		 MNZ
2
WD		 CAT
1
 CAT
2
 6th 45

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