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Markus Palttala (born 16 August 1977 in Nakkila) is a Finnish racing driver. After racing in karts, Palttala began racing cars in the Finnish Touring Car Championship in 1998. He competed in the 2001 European Super Production Championship, driving a Honda Integra. Palttala's first run in Grand Touring cars came in 2000 in the single-make Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. He moved to the FIA GT Championship beginning in 2002, competing sporadically in 2006, 2008, and 2009, and also competed in its successor championships, the FIA GT1 World Championship and FIA GT3 European Championship through 2011. Palttala's best seasons came in 2011 and 2012 in the Blancpain Endurance Series, where he finished 2nd in the championship each year, driving for Marc VDS Racing Team.[1]

Palttala drove in the Le Mans Endurance Series for various teams from 2005 until 2010. In the 2010 season, he won the GT1 class at the 1000 km of Spa and participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He ran the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 (including another outing at Le Mans) and 2013. Palttala joined Turner Motorsport for the inaugural United SportsCar Championship season in 2014. He took his first GT-Daytona class win in the third race of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and followed it up with a dominating win at the Six Hours of Watkins Glen.[2]

Complete motorsports results[]

24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2010 25px Belgium Marc VDS Racing Team 25px Belgium Eric De Doncker
25px Belgium Bas Leinders
Ford GT1 LMGT1 26 DNF DNF
2012 25px Great Britain JWA-Avila 25px Great Britain Paul Daniels
25px Switzerland Joël Camathias
Porsche 911 GT3 RSR LMGTE-AM 290 33rd 8th
2014 25px Belgium Prospeed Competition 25px France François Perrodo
25px France Emmanuel Collard
Porsche 911 GT3 RSR LMGTE-AM 194 DNF DNF

NASCAR[]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1[]

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1 results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NWES Points
2014 Racing Club Partners – Marc VDS 46 Toyota VAL VAL BRH
8
BRH
9
TOU TOU NUR
6
NUR
21
UMB UMB LEM LEM 22nd 178

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results[]

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

Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos. Points
2014 Turner Motorsport GTD BMW Z4 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 DAY
7†
SEB
7
LGA
1
DET
6
WGL
1
MOS
3
IND
ELK
1
VIR
1
COA
3
ATL
4
6th 287
2015 Turner Motorsport GTD BMW Z4 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 DAY
12
SEB
8
LGA
10
BEL
6
WGL
9
LIM
ELK
10†
VIR
4
AUS
2
ATL
11
11th 200
2016 Turner Motorsport GTD BMW M6 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 DAY
5
SEB
7
LGA
12
BEL
11
WGL
10
MOS
13†
LIM
7
ELK
9
VIR
8
AUS
14
PET
3
10th 237
2018 Turner Motorsport GTD BMW M6 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 DAY
SEB
11
MOH
BEL
WGL
1
MOS
LIM
ELK
VIR
LGA
PET
15
20th 100
2021 NTE Sport GTD Audi R8 LMS Evo Audi 5.2 L V10 DAY
SEB
MDO
DET
WGL
4
WGL
LIM
ELK
LGA
LBH
VIR
PET
48th 299
2022 NTE Sport GTD Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 DAY
16
SEB
LBH
LGA
MDO
DET
WGL
MOS
LIM
ELK
VIR
PET
66th 163

Palttala did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points.

References[]

External links[]

  • Official website
  • Markus Palttala career summary at DriverDB.com
  • Markus Palttala on TwitterLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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