Brendon Hartley

Brendon Hartley

Nation:	New Zealand
Formula 1 world championship
Start number :	28
First start:	2017 US Grand Prix
Last start:	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2018
Constructors
2017-2018  Toro Rosso
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-19. ( 2018 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 25th - - -
World Cup points :	4th
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Brendon Hartley (born November 10, 1989 in Palmerston North ) is a New Zealand racing driver . He competed in Formula Renault 3.5 from 2009 to 2011 . From 2014 to 2017 he drove for Porsche in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), where he won the driver's world title in 2015 and 2017. In 2017 and 2018 he took part in Formula 1 .

Career

Hartley began his motorsport career at the age of seven in karting . He won the most important kart championships in New Zealand, including four times the internationally renowned Gold Star Series . At the age of thirteen, Hartley won the New Zealand Formula Ford Festival in 2003 and competed in New Zealand's Formula First. In 2004 Hartley drove in New Zealand's Formula Ford and immediately won the runner-up title with six victories. From 2005 Hartley competed in the Toyota Racing Series for two seasons. After finishing fourth in the first season, Hartley finished eighth overall in the second season. Hartley then moved to Europe in 2006 and competed in the Northern European Formula Renault and the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . He finished tenth in the Northern European Formula Renault and 13th in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup. In 2006, he was also included in the Red Bull funding program.

Brendon Hartley, winner of the 2007 Formula Renault Eurocup

In the 2007 season Hartley moved to Epsilon Euskadi . He drove again in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, whose championship he won this season, and started in the Italian Formula Renault, in which he finished third in the overall classification. In 2008 he competed for Carlin Motorsport in the British Formula 3 Championship . With five wins he finished third behind his two team mates Jaime Alguersuari and Oliver Turvey . Hartley also took part as a guest starter in some races in the Formula 3 Euro Series . At the Formula 3 race in Macau , he finished third from 20th place on the grid. In December 2008 he completed his first Formula 1 test day for Red Bull Racing . In the 2009 Formula 1 season , Hartley was the official reserve driver for Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso . Since Hartley did not have a super license required for the start at the start of the season , he was represented at the first races by David Coulthard . From the Spanish Grand Prix up to and including the Great Britain Grand Prix he was a substitute driver for the two teams and was then replaced by the Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari in order to concentrate on his involvement in Formula 3.

In the 2009 Formula 3 Euro Series season Hartley went for Carlin Motorsport at the start. He won his first race in this series at Brands Hatch and finished eleventh overall at the end of the season. He also competed in the 2009 season of Formula Renault 3.5 for Tech 1 Racing and was 15th in the overall standings. Due to overlapping appointments, Hartley had to cancel two racing weekends in the Euro Series and two racing weekends in the Formula Renault 3.5.

Hartley for Tech 1 Racing in Formula Renault 3.5 in Brno 2010

In 2010 Hartley started again for Tech 1 Racing in Formula Renault 3.5. While his teammate Daniel Ricciardo scored several podiums and won two races, Hartley failed to keep up with Ricciardo and he couldn't get past a second place, which was his only podium finish. After six racing weekends he was replaced by Jean-Éric Vergne . Red Bull also stopped promoting Hartley and fired him from his junior team. He then went on to represent Jan Charouz at P1 Motorsport for a race weekend. At the end of the season he finished tenth overall. Until he left the Red Bull support program, he and his teammate Ricciardo worked for the Formula 1 racing teams Red Bull and Toro Rosso as a substitute and test driver for the 2010 season . The two racing drivers took over this position alternately and, if both were prevented, were represented by David Coulthard . In the GP2 series , Hartley found a cockpit at Scuderia Coloni for the last two race weekends of the GP2 series in 2010 . With a seventh place as the best result, he finished 27th in the drivers' standings. In 2011 Hartley completed his third season in Formula Renault 3.5 for Gravity - Charouz Racing . With three third places, Hartley was the best pilot without a win that season and he finished the season in seventh place overall. With this, he clearly prevailed against his team-mate Charouz, who was 25th. Hartley also took part in two GP2 Series race weekends for Ocean Racing Technology this season . He scored the first points for the racing team with a fifth place and was 19th in the championship.

In 2012 Hartley participated in two GP2 series race weekends for Ocean Racing Technology. He scored a point in the process. At the end of the season he finished 25th overall. In addition, Hartley made his debut in endurance racing. For Murphy Prototypes he took part in the 6-hour race of Spa-Francorchamps and, with his team-mates Jody Firth and Warren Hughes, achieved third place in the LMP2 classification . He then started for Murphy Prototypes together with Firth and Hughes in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans and two races in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS). In the ELMS he was tenth in the LMP2 ranking. He was also employed as a test driver for the Mercedes Formula 1 racing team . In addition to working in the simulator, he also completed test drives on the track. In 2013, Hartley stayed with Murphy Prototypes in the European Le Mans Series. He had changing teammates and won a race with Jonathan Hirschi . He finished fifth in the LMP2 classification. He also competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race for Murphy Prototypes . Hartley was also active in the North American Rolex Sports Car Series for Starworks Motorsport . Together with Scott Mayer he managed a victory. Hartley finished the season in twelfth place in the DP category.

Porsche 919 Hybrid , winning car in the 2017 Le Mans 24-hour race

In 2014 , Hartley received a cockpit in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the manufacturer Porsche, which has just entered the championship . His teammates were Timo Bernhard and Mark Webber . Three third places were the best results of the three. Hartley and his teammates finished ninth in the drivers' championship. Hartley also took part in a race for Starworks Motorsport in 2014 for the newly established United SportsCar Championship (USCC). In 2015 Hartley again formed a driver trio with Bernhard and Webber. After a retirement at the season opener, the three drivers finished third at Spa-Francorchamps and second at Le Mans . The following four races at the Nürburgring , in Austin , Fuji and Shanghai were won by the driver trio. A fifth place at the season finale in as-Sachir was enough to win the driver's world championship. Bernhard, Hartley and Webber prevailed with 166 to 161 points against Marcel Fässler , André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer . Hartley also took part in a USCC race for Starworks Motorsport. In 2016 , the driver trio in the WEC was retained and the races at the Nürburgring , Mexico City , Austin and Shanghai were won. In the overall ranking, the team achieved fourth place.

Brendon Hartley at the 2017 US Grand Prix

In the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2017 Hartley remained at Porsche. Earl Bamber replaced Webber, while Bernhard remained his team-mate. The three drivers won the Le Mans 24-hour race . Hartley also made his Grand Prix debut in the Formula 1 World Championship for Scuderia Toro Rosso and competed in the US Grand Prix . He represented Pierre Gasly at the race , who was competing in the season finale of the Japanese Super Formula this weekend because he still had a chance for the title there, but where the race was canceled after qualifying and not made up due to the weather. After his first Formula 1 race, it was announced that Hartley would also drive the remaining races of the season. This time instead of Daniil Kwjat and at the side of returnees Pierre Gasly.

For the Formula 1 World Championship 2018 Hartley received a regular cockpit at Toro Rosso. In Azerbaijan , he scored his first point in Formula 1 in tenth and became the first New Zealander since Denny Hulme to score points in a race. At the end of the season he was on the 19th championship course.

statistics

Career stations

2003: New Zealand Formula First (8th place) 2004: New Zealand Formula Ford (2nd place) 2005: Toyota Racing Series (4th place) 2006: Toyota Racing Series (8th place) 2006: Northern European Formula Renault (10th place) 2006: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (13th place) 2007: Toyota Racing Series 2007: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (champion) 2007: Italian Formula Renault (3rd place) 2008: British Formula 3 (3rd place) 2008 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2009 : Formula 3 Euro Series (11th place) 2009 : Formula Renault 3.5 (15th place) 2009 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2010 : Formula Renault 3.5 (10th place) 2010 : GP2 series (27th place) 2010 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2011 : Formula Renault 3.5 (7th place) 2011 : GP2 series (19th place) 2012 : GP2 series (25th place) 2012 : ELMS , LMP2 (10th place) 2012 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2013: ELMS, LMP2 (5th place) 2013: Rolex Sports Car Series , DP (12th place) 2013 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2014 : WEC (9th place) 2014 : USCC , Prototype (55th place) 2015 : WEC (World Champion) 2015 : USCC, Prototype (29th place) 2016 : WEC (4th place) 2017 : WEC (World Champion) 2017 : Formula 1 (23rd place) 2018 : Formula 1 (19th place)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

Status: end of season 2018

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2017	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR12	Renault 1.6 V6 Turbo	4th	-	-	-	-	-	0	23.
2018	Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda	Scuderia Toro Rosso STR13	Honda 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	-	4th	19th
total				25th	-	-	-	-	-	4th

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
2017
																	13	DNF	DNF	15th
2018
	15th	17th	20 *	10	12	19 *	DNF	14th	DNF	DNF	10	11	14th	DNF	17th	DNF	13	9	14th	11	12

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2012	Murphy prototypes	Oreca 03	Jody Firth	Warren Hughes	failure
2013	Murphy prototypes	Oreca 03	Karun Chandhok	Mark Patterson	Rank 12
2014	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Timo Bernhard	Mark Webber	failure	Oil pump
2015	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Timo Bernhard	Mark Webber	Rank 2
2016	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Timo Bernhard	Mark Webber	Rank 13
2017	Porsche LMP team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Timo Bernhard	Earl Bamber	Overall victory

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2017	Tequila Patron ESM	OnRoak Nissan DPi	Johannes van Overbeek	Ed Brown	Bruno Senna	failure	malfunction
2019	Mustang Sampling Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Filipe Albuquerque	João Barbosa		Rank 3

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2012	Murphy prototypes	Oreca 03	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
				10	DNF	16
2013	Murphy prototypes	Oreca 03	SIL	SPA	LEM	SAO	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
					12
2014	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH	SAO
			3	23	DNF	5	3	6th	3	DNF
2015	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			DNF	3	2	1	1	1	1	5
2016	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			DNF	26th	13	1	1	1	3	1	3
2017	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			2	3	1	1	1	1	4th	2	2
2018/19	SMP Racing	BR Engineering BR1	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
								3
2019/20	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BAH	OUT	SEB	SPA	LEM
			2	1	2	2

Web links

Commons : Brendon Hartley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website of Brendon Hartley (English)
• Career statistics of Brendon Hartley (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Hartley on target: Red Bull substitute driver" (Motorsport-Total.com on May 1, 2009)
2. ↑ “Ricciardo and Hartley 2010 for Tech 1” (Motorsport-Total.com on October 30, 2009)
3. ↑ "Red Bull: Junior team confirms Hartley departure" (Motorsport-Total.com on July 21, 2010)
4. ↑ "Red Bull: Ricciardo and Hartley on the substitute bench" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 26, 2010)
5. ^ "Hartley: GP2 debut at Coloni" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 9, 2010)
6. ↑ “Gravity-Charouz Racing signs J. Charouz and B. Hartley for Formula Renault 3.5 in 2010” ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (charouz.cz on February 16, 2011)  
7. ^ "GP2: Brendon Hartley rejoint Ocean" (autohebdo.fr on April 19, 2012)
8. ↑ Manuel Schulz: "WEC 2012 Belgium: 2 Oreca 03 on the podium in the LMP2 class". (No longer available online.) Motorsport-server.de, May 6, 2012, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; Retrieved May 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Eric Thompson: “Motorsport: Kiwi's double success”. nzherald.co.nz, June 30, 2012, accessed July 15, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Felix Matthey: "Hartley hopes for more Formula 1 outings". Motorsport-Total.com, September 15, 2012, accessed October 20, 2012 . 
11. ^ Gary Watkins: Porsche's Webber, Hartley and Bernhard secure WEC drivers' title. autosport.com, November 21, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: Confirmed: Hartley drives Formula 1 in Austin for Toro Rosso. Motorsport-Total.com, October 13, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Christian Menath: Unlucky Gasly: ​​Super Formula Finale & Formula 1 canceled. Motorsport-Magazin.com, October 21, 2017, accessed October 21, 2017 . 
14. ^ Mathias Brunner: Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso): 2017 GP season over. Speedweek.com, October 25, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017 .