Jörg Bergmeister

Jörg Bergmeister
	Bergmeister at the 2014 Super GT Suzuka 1000km.
Nationality	German
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2002 –2019
Teams	Freisinger Motorsport, The Racer's Group, White Lightning Racing, Petersen Motorsports, Flying Lizard Motorsports
Best finish	10th (2004, 2019)
Class wins	2 (2004, 2019)

Jörg Bergmeister (born 13 February 1976, in Leverkusen) is a former racing driver from Germany and an ambassador of Porsche.

His late father, Willi Bergmeister, owned a workshop and dealership where Michael Schumacher learned his trade as a car mechanic in the 1980s.

Since 1996, Jörg has raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup. In 2006 he won the Grand-American Rolex Series Championship. He also won the 2003 24 Hours of Daytona overall in a Porsche 911 GT3-RS. His most recent achievement is 1st place at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT Class with TRG.

He also won the Porsche Supercup in 2001, and the German Cup in 2000. He is one of the tallest sport car drivers at 6'4". He also has a degree in economics. As of 2010, he drives for Flying Lizard Motorsports in the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans and BMS Scuderia Italia in the FIA GT2 European Championship.

Career

2010 – 1st place ALMS GT Class Driver's Championship (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR)^[1]
2010 – 1st place 24 Hour of Spa (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR)
2009 – 1st place ALMS GT2 Class Driver's Championship (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR)
2009 – 1st place GT Class 24 Hours of Daytona
2008 – 1st place ALMS GT2 Class Driver's Championship (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR)
2006 – 1st place ALMS GT2 Class Driver's Championship (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR)
2006 – 1st place Grand-Am Daytona Prototype Driver's Championship
2005 – 1st place ALMS GT2 Class Driver's Championship (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR), 4th Place Daytona Prototype Grand-Am
2004 – 1st place GT Class 24 Hours of Le Mans
2003 – 3rd place ALMS GT Class (Porsche 911 GT3-RS), 1st place 24 Hours of Daytona Overall win
2002 – 4th place ALMS Class (Porsche 911 GT3-RS), 1st place GT Class 24 Hours of Daytona
2001 – 2nd place Porsche Carrera Cup, 1st place Porsche Supercup
2000 – 1st place Porsche Carrera Cup, 6th place Porsche Supercup
1999 – 3rd place Porsche Carrera Cup
1998 – 9th place Porsche Carrera Cup
1997 – 6th place Formula Opel Euroseries
1996 – 7th place Porsche Carrera Cup
1995 – 2nd place Formula Opel
1994 – Deutsche Formula Renault Masterseries
1993 – 1st place Formula König
1992 – 3rd place Formula König

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2002	Freisinger Motorsport	Romain Dumas Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	321	17th	2nd
2003	The Racer's Group	Kevin Buckler Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	304	20th	5th
2004	White Lightning Racing	Patrick Long Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	327	10th	1st
2005	Petersen Motorsports White Lightning Racing	Patrick Long Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	331	11th	2nd
2006	White Lightning Racing Krohn Racing	Nic Jönsson Tracy Krohn	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	148	DNF	DNF
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	124	DNF	DNF
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	289	32nd	6th
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Darren Law Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	194	DNF	DNF
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Darren Law	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	61	DNF	DNF
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Lucas Luhr Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	310	18th	6th
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	114	DNF	DNF
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Patrick Pilet Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	315	16th	2nd
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	309	36th	7th
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	Richard Lietz Michael Christensen	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	327	30th	5th
2016	Porsche Motorsport	Earl Bamber Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	140	DNF	DNF
2018	Team Project 1	Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	332	34th	7th
2019	Team Project 1	Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	334	31st	1st
Sources:^[2]^[3]

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 7	SPA Ret	LMS 2	SÃO 3	COA 9	FUJ 3	SHA 3	BHR 2	6th	99.5
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 11	COA 4	FUJ 4	SHA 2	BHR 4	SÃO 6	6th	99
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL	SPA	LMS 7	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	18th	12
2018–19	Team Project 1	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	SPA 9	LMS 3	SIL 3	FUJ 1	SHA 2	SEB 3	SPA 5	LMS 1	1st	151
2019–20	Team Project 1	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BHR	COA	SPA	LMS	BHR 1	16th	38
Sources:^[3]^[4]

IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key)

Year	Team	Car	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2014	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	GTLM	DAY DNF	SEB 1	LBH	LAG	WGI	MOS	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA 11	PET 5		18th	107
2015	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	GTLM	DAY 7	SEB 7	LBH 8	LGA 3	WGL 2	MOS 7	ELK 2	VIR 2	AUS 5	PET 8			6th	276
2016	Park Place Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	GTD	DAY 17	SEB 17	LGA 11	BEL 2	WGL 8	MOS 6	LIM 10	ELK 2	VIR	AUS 5	PET 12		11th	203
2017	Park Place Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	GTD	DAY 24	SEB 6	LBH 4	AUS 8	BEL 9	WGL	MOS 9	LIM 1	ELK 2	VIR 10	LGA 3	PET 3	10th	275
2018	Park Place Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	GTD	DAY 18	SEB 9	MOH	BEL	WGL 6	MOS	LIM	ELK 11	VIR	LGA 2	PET		16th	112
Source:^[3]

References

↑ "FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS" (PDF). American Le Mans Series. International Motor Sports Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
↑ "Jörg Bergmeister". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
1 2 3 "Jörg Bergmeister Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
↑ "Jörg Bergmeister". FIA World Endurance Championship. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

External links

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[1] "FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS" (PDF). American Le Mans Series. International Motor Sports Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

[2] "Jörg Bergmeister". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

[MSportStats-3] 1 2 3 "Jörg Bergmeister Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

[4] "Jörg Bergmeister". FIA World Endurance Championship. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

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Winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona
run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63) Daytona 2000 (1964–65) 6 Hours of Daytona (1972) 24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time	Hurley Haywood Scott Pruett
Four-time	Peter Gregg Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek
Three-time	João Barbosa Derek Bell Hélio Castroneves Scott Dixon Christian Fittipaldi Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace
Two-time	Filipe Albuquerque Max Angelelli Mauro Baldi Tom Blomqvist Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Kamui Kobayashi Jan Lammers Ken Miles Simon Pagenaud John Paul Jr. Lloyd Ruby Scott Sharp Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser Jr. Renger van der Zande
One-time	Allmendinger Alonso Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Bourdais Boutsen Braun Briscoe Brown Brundle Buckler Collard Dalziel Derani Dismore D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Gordon Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jarvis Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kanaan Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Larson Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin McMurray Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Nielsen O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Rossi Schneider Schrom Siffert Suzuki Unser Sr. Van der Merwe Van Overbeek Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson