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A work team is the internal racing department of a manufacturer that fields their cars in grid and directly conducts all operations related to the racing program inside and outside the track (logistics, race managment, design and development of the car etc..).
Porsche Team during 919 years was a 100% work team.
An official team is a third party racing team that a manufacturer hires and directly supports providing them cars + work drivers and engineers to be represented in a given racing program. Core autosport was until last year porsche official team in IMSA (branded as porsche NA) as AF corse is from years ferrari competizioni GT official team in WEC gt-pro.
There is also a third way in between like toyota, with part of the designing process made by the internal manufacturer racing department and its partners (ICE + hybrid) and an external subsidiary appointed to chassis/aero design + race program managment supported by work assets (drivers, engineers etc...).
Something similiar about audi sport with team joest, with the latter as a third party hired team, deeply involved in logistics and racing program managment.
In case of 2023 hypercar program, AF Corse will likely keep on doing what currently does in GT, it will just change type of cars.
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