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Double champion 2026
Belgium
A small Belgian team, founded and run by its driver, Eric De Doncker. It runs a single car: the #98.
Motorsport98 has raced prototypes since 2017, the year the Michelin Le Mans Cup opened up to LMP3 cars. Three Ligiers have worn its colours: the JS P3, the JS P320, then the JS P325 with its twin-turbo V6 engine, with which the team won its two titles.
Its home race is Spa-Francorchamps. It won there in 2025 and in 2026.
In 2025, Le Mans Cup fans voted its livery the best in the LMP3 Pro/Am class.
98
🇧🇪 Founder · Bronze driver
Born in Brussels on 12 March 1962. Double GT4 European Cup champion (2007, 2008), race winner in the FIA GT3 European Championship, Class 1 champion of the Group C Racing Series in 2016. He has entered his own team in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series since 2015, then in LMP3.
98
🇫🇷 Professional driver · FIA Silver
Born in Toul, in Lorraine. Ligier European Series champion in 2022, LMP3 champion of the Michelin Le Mans Cup in 2023, he joined Motorsport98 in 2025 after helping develop the JS P325. He is the one who takes the final stint.
The people who keep the #98 running — in Gillian Henrion’s words, October 2026.
💛 Co-owner · the team’s mum
(De Doncker)
Co-owner of Motorsport98 alongside Eric De Doncker, and the team’s mum. On race weekends she cooks for everyone and makes sure nobody goes without anything, from first practice to the chequered flag. Indispensable to the team.
🔧 Team manager · technical director
Eric De Doncker’s right-hand man for twenty years. Team manager and technical director, he prepares the car, sets it up at every circuit and runs the team in the pit lane during race weekends.
“With Julien, the technical director, Motorsport 98 has remained a true family team.”
Eric De Doncker, end of 2017 — Autosportnieuws ↗ (translated from Dutch)
🔩 Chief mechanic
The #98’s number-one mechanic: the car goes through his hands first, in the garage and in the pit lane, at every session and every stop.
Eric De Doncker’s team-mate in the first season: the 2017 Portimão win was with him.
Four seasons in the JS P3 then the JS P320, two podiums.
2 seasons, 2 titles.
The names carried by the Ligier and the race suits.
MannèsAMBKinooLigier AutomotiveMichelinOMP