Jörg Bergmeister

Jörg Bergmeister
Bergmeister at the 2014 Super GT Suzuka 1000km.
Nationality	German
Born	13 February 1976 (age 46)

Jörg Bergmeister
Years	2002 –2019
Teams	Freisinger Motorsport, The Racer's Group, White Lightning Racing, Petersen Motorsports, Flying Lizard Motorsports
Best finish	10th (2004)
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)
• 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

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

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

External links

• Bergmeister company

Sporting positions Preceded by: Lucas Luhr Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Champion 2000 Succeeded by: Timo Bernhard Preceded by: Patrick Huisman Porsche Supercup Champion 2001 Succeeded by: Stéphane Ortelli Preceded by: Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor Rolex Sports Car Series DP Champion 2006 Succeeded by: Alex Gurney Jon Fogarty Preceded by: Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda Paul Dalla Lana FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers 2018–19 Succeeded by: Emmanuel Collard François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Jörg Bergmeister. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Autopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.