Richard Lietz

Richard Lietz
Lietz in 2016
Nationality	Austrian
Born	17 December 1983 (age 38)
Curent series	FIA World Endurance Championship
First year	2012
Current team	Porsche GT Team
Former teams	Team Manthey, Team Felbermayr-Proton, Dempsey-Proton Racing
Car number	91
Starts	74
Wins	10
Poles	8
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	1st (2015

Richard Lietz
Years	2007 -
Teams	IMSA Performance Matmut Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche AG Team Manthey
Best finish	11th (2010)
Class wins	4 (2007), (2010), (2013), (2022)

Richard Lietz (born 17 December 1983 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs) is an Austrian professional racing driver and a Porsche Factory driver. He has competed in such series as American Le Mans Series, Formula 3 Euro Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series. He is also a multiple race-winner in Porsche Supercup. Lietz was overall series champion in the 2007 International GT Open season with Swiss driver Joël Camathias. He has won the GT2 class of the Le Mans Series twice, alongside German driver Marc Lieb in both in the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Lietz won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT division driving a Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-drivers Andy Lally, Rene Rast and team owner John Potter. He will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Team Felbermayr-Proton. In 2015 he was crowned World Endurance Champion for GT drivers. Winning the title in a factory Manthey Porsche.

Racing record

Partial Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2004	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA	ESP	MON	GER	USA	USA	FRA	GBR	GER 8	HUN 7	BEL 12	ITA 9	NC‡	0‡
2005	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	ITA 6	ESP 8	MON 5	GER 8	USA 5	USA 7	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 5	HUN 6	ITA 21	BEL 6	5th	130
2006	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR 8	ITA 11	GER 2	ESP 22	MON 1	GBR 3	USA Ret	USA 4	FRA 2	GER 1	HUN 4	ITA 5	3rd	157

‡ Not eligible for points.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2007	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Long	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	320	15th	1st
2008	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Long	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	26	DNF	DNF
2009	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	24	DNF	DNF
2010	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	338	11th	1st
2011	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	312	16th	4th
2012	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	184	DNF	DNF
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	315	15th	1st
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	Marco Holzer Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	337	15th	3rd
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	Michael Christensen Jörg Bergmeister	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	327	30th	5th
2016	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Michael Christensen Philipp Eng	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	329	31st	8th
2017	Porsche GT Team	Frédéric Makowiecki Patrick Pilet	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	GTE Pro	339	20th	4th
2018	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	GTE Pro	343	16th	2nd
2019	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	GTE Pro	342	21st	2nd
2020	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Pro	335	31st	5th
2021	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Pro	343	23rd	4th
2022	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Pro	350	28th	1st

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Points
2007	IMSA Performance Matmut	GT2	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6	MNZ 6	VAL Ret	NÜR 9	SPA Ret	SIL 2	INT	17th	11
2008	IMSA Performance Matmut	GT2	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6	CAT 3	MNZ DSQ	SPA 6	NÜR 3	SIL Ret		9th	15
2009	Team Felbermayr-Proton	GT2	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	CAT 1	SPA 1	ALG 8	NÜR 1	SIL 7		1st	36
2010	Team Felbermayr-Proton	GT2	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	LEC 1	SPA 1	ALG 3	HUN 1	SIL 5		1st	87
2011	Team Felbermayr-Proton	GTE Pro	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	LEC Ret	SPA 8	IMO 3	SIL 3	EST 2		3rd	44
2015	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL	IMO 2	RBR 5	LEC 4	EST 8		9th	45
2016	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 6	IMO	RBR	LEC	SPA	EST	19th	8
2020	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	LEC 7	SPA 4	LEC DNS	MNZ 5	ALG 4		6th	47
2021	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	CAT 6	RBR 4	LEC 8	MNZ 7	SPA 4	ALG 2	5th	61
2022	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	LEC 3	IMO 7	MNZ Ret	CAT 8	SPA 7	ALG 8	14th	35

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Team Felbermayr-Proton	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SEB 2	SPA 1	LMS Ret	SIL 3	SÃO 3	BHR 3	FUJ 1	SHA 2		39th	5.5
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 4	SPA 5	LMS 1	SÃO 4	COA 4	FUJ 4	SHA 6	BHR 4		4th	123
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 1	SPA	LMS 2	COA	FUJ 4	SHA 2	BHR 4	SÃO 6		3rd	111
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 5	NÜR 1	COA 1	FUJ 4	SHA 1	BHR 5		1st	145
2016	Dempsey-Proton Racing	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 9	SPA 4	LMS 6	NÜR 6	MEX 6	COA 6	FUJ 7	SHA 6	BHR 7	8th	74
2017	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 3	SPA 5	LMS 3	NÜR 2	MEX 3	COA 6	FUJ 2	SHA 2	BHR 4	2nd	145
2018–19	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SPA 4	LMS 2	SIL DSQ	FUJ 5	SHA 2	SEB 1	SPA 8	LMS 2		3rd	131
2019–20	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SIL 1	FUJ 6	SHA 3	BHR 5	COA 8	SPA 5	LMS 9	BHR 2		7th	111
2021	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SPA 4	ALG 4	MNZ 3	LMS 3	BHR 2	BHR 4				3rd	111
2022	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SEB 3	SPA 5	LMS 1	MNZ	FUJ 4	BHR 5				5th	115

^* Season still in progress.

Complete IMSA SportsCar 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	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2014	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 1	SEB 9	LBH 4	LGA 9	WGL 5	MOS 5	IMS 10	ELK 10	VIR	COA	PET		15th	210
2015	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SEB 5	LBH 8	LGA	WGL	MOS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 1				14th	87
2016	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 10		29th	22
2017	Porsche GT Team	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR (2017)	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 6	SEB 8	LBH	COA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET		21st	48
2021	WeatherTech Racing	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	DAY 6	SEB	DET	WGL	WGL	LIM	ELK	LGA	LBH	VIR	PET		15th	280
2022	Wright Motorsports	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche MA1.76/MDG.G 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 1	SEB	LBH	LGA	MDO	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	PET	-*	-*	0*

External links

• Official website
• Richard Lietz career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions Preceded by: Michele Bartyan International GT Open Champion 2007 Succeeded by: Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi Preceded by: Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers 2015 Succeeded by: Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Richard Lietz. 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.