Gunnar Jeannette

Gunnar Jeannette on the test day at Le Mans in 2012

Gunnar Jeannette (born May 5, 1982 in West Palm Beach ) is an American racing car driver .

Career

Gunnar Jeannette entered the American Le Mans Series in the 2000 ALMS season and made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that same year . At that time, Jeannette was 18 years and a month old, making her one of the youngest starters in the long history of the 24-hour race in western France. At the second outing at Le Mans 2001, he and his partners Romain Dumas and Philippe Haezebrouck in a Porsche 996 GT3 RS came in second and final in the GT class behind Gabrio Rosa , Fabio Babini and Luca Drudi (also in a Porsche 996 GT3 RS) seventh overall.

In 2002 he became a works driver at Panoz . The best results from the collaboration were third overall at the 2.45-hour race in Mosport in 2003 and fourth at Petit Le Mans in the same year .

After the end of the collaboration with Pans, Jeannette remained active in the American Le Mans Series and drove in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the 2010s . With the race of 2012 he was at the start eight times at Le Mans; his best place in the final ranking was fifth in 2003 . In 2003 he was also fifth overall in the Sebring 12-hour race .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Manthey Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Mike Brockman	Michael Lauer	Rank 27
2001	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Romain Dumas	Philippe Haezebrouck	Rank 7
2002	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz LMP01 Evo	Bill Auberlen	David Donohue	failure	Engine failure
2003	Team Panoz	Panoz LMP-1	Olivier Beretta	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 5
2004	Epsilon sport	Courage C65	Renaud Derlot	Gavin Pickering	failure	Engine failure
2006	Multimatic Motorsport Team Panoz	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Scott Maxwell	Tommy Milner	failure	Electrics
2008	Team Bruichladdich Radical	Radical SR9	Marc Rostan	Ben Devlin	Rank 31st
2012	Luxury racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Pierre Ehret	Frankie Montecalvo	failure	malfunction

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	White Lightning Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Rod McLeod	Michael Lauer	failure	cooler
2002	Gunnar Racing	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Chad Block	Wayne Jackson	failure	Brake defect
2003	JML	Panoz LMP01	Olivier Beretta	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 5
2005	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Bryan Sellers	Scott Maxwell	Rank 18
2006	Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Bruno Junqueira	Tommy Milner	failure	Power transmission
2010	Green Earth Team Gunnar	Oreca FLM09	Christian Zugel	Elton Julian	Disqualified
2011	Core autosport	Oreca FLM09	Ricardo González	Rudy Junco	Rank 18
2014	PR1 Mathiesen Motorsports	Oreca FLM09	Mike Guasch	Frankie Montecalvo	failure	malfunction
2016	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3 R.	Cooper MacNeil	Leh Keen	Rank 25
2017	Riley Motorsports WeatherTech Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Cooper MacNeil	Shane van Gisbergen	failure	malfunction
2018	Scuderia Corsa	Ferrari 488 GT3	Cooper MacNeil	Alessandro Balzan	Rank 18

Web links

Commons : Gunnar Jeannette  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Gunnar Jeannette at the Driver Database
• Gunnar Jeannette at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2003 2.45-hour Mosport race
2. ↑ Petit Le Mans 2003