As the season gets underway, we caught up with the two new Porsche Juniors to hear about their journey into motorsport and their aspirations for 2026 and beyond.
A new season in motorsport brings with it the chance for two new Porsche Juniors to make their mark on the world of racing.
Marcus Amand and Flynt Schuring earned the title for 2026, after prevailing in a shootout involving twelve talented young drivers late last year.
They were nominated from across the many Porsche One-Make Series, either by regional Carrera Cup championships or as wildcards, and underwent a rigorous selection process at the Circuito Estoril in Portugal, as well as in the Porsche Esports Performance Center in Cologne.
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Amand, from Finland, and Schuring, from the Netherlands, will both compete in the full season of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup this year, as well as in regional Porsche Carrera Cup series.
We sat down with the pair as they prepared for 2026, to hear about how they got into motorsport, what being a Porsche Junior means to them, and their hopes and dreams in the future.
Marcus Amand
In just his second season in Porsche Carrera Cup competition, Marcus Amand claimed the Porsche Carrera Cup France title in 2025.
It was a fantastic showing from the 20-year-old half-Finnish, half-French driver, and cemented his place as a promising young talent. But trophies weren’t always so forthcoming for him, as he battled through a difficult period in single-seater competition.
Starting out in go-karts aged just four, he dreamed of a career in single-seater racing, and quickly became successful in karting. In 2019, he beat Formula 1 star Andrea Kimi Antonelli to the OKJ title in the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship.
Soon after, Amand stepped up to Formula 4, racing in the ADAC and Italian championships and then moving up to Formula Regional in 2023. But things were tough.
“It was very very hard,” he says. “I think it was the toughest years in my life, and in motorsport for sure. It was hard, because in go-kart I was winning a lot and I was always very close to winning if I wasn’t.
“When I went to formula racing, I think I was a bit too young and I wasn't really prepared. In retrospect, we placed our trust in the wrong advice and I was not mentally ready.”
Luckily for Amand, things turned a corner when an opportunity came to race in the Porsche Carrera Cup France with Schumacher CLRT.
During his debut season, he scored four podiums and finished fourth in the standings, placing inside the top eight in every race and claiming the rookie title.
After a rocky few years, this was the confidence boost Amand needed. Heading into 2025, with a strong rookie campaign behind him, he finished second in both races of round two, before going on to score another two podiums and two victories to seal the title.
“It was a very nice year,” he says. “The team was very strong. It was really, really tight with everyone. It was very close until the end, but I just had fun to be honest, for the first time for a while I just had fun driving, and this just brought performance.
“It was pretty hard in the first part of the year, because we got disqualified in the first race, so we lost a lot of points and we had to come back and drive a lot better and do results to be sure to win the championship.
“To be honest, it was kind of a relief when I won after so many years, to finally have won something in cars. I was really happy.”
To round off a brilliant 2025, he was named Porsche Junior alongside Schuring, and will receive valuable support for 2026. “I feel very lucky and grateful to be a part of a brand that is that big,” he says of his new Junior status.
Amand will again race in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, as well as a full season in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia and part-campaigns in Germany and Australia.
His longer-term goal mirrors that of fellow Frenchmen and Porsche works drivers Kévin Estre and Julien Andlauer: to become a factory Porsche driver racing in the Porsche 963.
But his biggest goal? “I’ll do everything to stay a Porsche driver forever - that's the plan.”
Flynt Schuring
The name Schuring is on the up in motorsport in 2026. As elder brother Morris makes his IMSA GTD debut with Manthey, Flynt will also add to the family legacy as he makes his next steps as a racing driver.
The 19-year-old Dutch driver finished third - and top rookie - in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in 2025, scoring three podiums. He also won three races and took five podiums in the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Germany to finish fourth in the standings.
Hailing from a motorsport-mad family, Schuring was inspired to start go-karting at a young age after watching both his grandfather and father race, the latter at the iconic Nürburgring Nordschleife in the VLN races which Flynt himself has now had a taste of.
After cutting his teeth karting, Schuring quickly stepped up to cars and made an immediate impact, winning titles in both of his first two campaigns - the second of which came in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Benelux for Huber Racing.
Since then, he has been on the rise, winning races across several regional Carrera Cup series despite still being a teenager.
Schuring says the support from his family along every step of the way has been invaluable: “With my father also having had the same experience, when I did my first NLS race in a Cup car, it’s super nice to be able to share the experiences and you can have a proper conversation about it.
“And even more with my brother, who has already gone through the ranks I’m going through now.
“So it’s always nice if you can speak to them about things and someone is always on your side so you don't have to question about that.”
With a successful 2025 behind him, Schuring headed to the Porsche Junior Shootout with one goal in mind: winning.
“When you have the goal to be a professional racing driver, that’s one of the only ways to have a direct entry into a manufacturer or become part of one of these families,” he says.
“That was always a big goal and a big ambition of mine, so to go to the Shootout was a big thing. You know if you do well, then you have a big chance at it.
“So my sights were really set on it and I prepared as much as I could, even though there are still many variables which you don't have control over. It’s basically a four-day interview while you're competing against 11 other guys, and I tried to show the best I could.
“It’s been my dream for a long time to be part of a manufacturer’s family, especially a brand like Porsche with an amazing history. To make my first step closer to becoming a professional racing driver is really something which means a lot.”
The impressive display in Estoril and Cologne secured him a spot on the programme, and he will again compete in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and Carrera Cup Germany in 2026.
His ambition is to “follow in the footsteps of Porsche Juniors like Laurin Heinrich and Julien Andlauer to win the 24 Hours of Daytona, or the [other] big ones like the Nürburgring 24 Hours and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. To really perform at these big races is really a dream of mine.”
Learn more about the Junior Programme
Porsche Motorsport has been nurturing young talent on their way to professional racing since 1997.
In addition to financial support, Porsche Motorsport's support also includes intensive training in areas such as vehicle technology, set-up work, fitness, nutrition, media and marketing work, and career planning.
Previous Juniors include Le Mans winners Timo Bernhard and Marc Lieb, IMSA champions Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet, and reigning DTM champion Ayhancan Güven.
For more information about the Porsche Motorsport Junior Programme, visit the series page
