Johannes van Overbeek

Johannes van Overbeek in a Ferrari 458 Italia during qualifying training for Petit Le Mans 2011

Johannes van Overbeek (born April 14, 1973 in Sacramento ) is a former American racing driver .

Career in motorsport

After starting out in karting , van Overbeek started GT racing in 1995 and achieved third place overall in the SCCA National Championship in his first full racing season . In 1999 he got into a BMW M3 from the Prototype Technology Group , and in his debut season in this racing series achieved third place in the final standings in the GT class of the American Le Mans Series . In the following years he stayed in the American Le Mans Series and also drove in other racing series, such as the Speedvision World Challenge and the Grand-Am Sports Car Series , where he was also third overall in the GT class in 2003 (vehicle Porsche 996 GT3- R ) was.

Between 1999 and the beginning of the 2016 season, van Overbeek competed in 200 sports car races. In addition to two overall wins, he was able to celebrate 9 box office hits. Between 2004 and 2008 he placed five times in a row among the top three of the final standings of the GT and GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series. In 2004 and 2006 he was runner-up; 2005 , 2007 and 2008 third overall. In 2012 he again won the runner-up championship.

Since 2010 Johannes van Oberbeek has been part of the team of US beverage billionaire Ed Brown . In January 2016 he celebrated with this team and the driver partners Brown, Scott Sharp and Luís Felipe Derani on a Ligier JS P2 with the overall victory in the 24-hour race of Daytona, his greatest success to date in international sports car racing. After the Petit Le Mans 2018 , he announced his retirement from active racing

Johannes van Overbeek lives in Oakland with his wife and two sons .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Lonnie Pechnik	Seth Neiman	Rank 13
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 991 GT3-RSR	Patrick Long	Seth Neiman	Rank 18
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Seth Neiman	failure	transmission
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Seth Neiman	Rank 32
2015	Extreme speed motorsports	Ligier JS P2	Ed Brown	Jon Fogarty	Rank 15
2016	Extreme speed motorsports	Ligier JS P2	Ed Brown	Scott Sharp	Rank 16

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3	Mark Simo	Brian Cunningham		failure	differential
2000	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3 E46	Boris Said III	Hans-Joachim Stuck		failure	Brake defect
2004	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Darren Law	Jon Fogarty		Rank 12
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Marc Lieb	Jon Fogarty		Rank 9
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Marc Lieb	Jörg Bergmeister		Rank 13
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Richard Lietz	Patrick Pilet		Rank 20
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Darren Law	Seth Neiman		Rank 11
2010	Extreme speed motorsports	Ferrari F430 GTC	Dominik Farnbacher	Scott Sharp		failure	mechanics
2011	Extreme speed motorsports	Ferrari 458 Italia	Dominik Farnbacher	Scott Sharp		failure	accident
2011	Extreme speed motorsports	Ferrari 458 Italia	Guy Cosmo	Scott Sharp		failure	accident
2012	Extreme speed motorsports	Ferrari 458 Italia	Guy Cosmo	Scott Sharp		Rank 43
2013	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Ed Brown	Anthony Lazzaro		Rank 13
2014	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Ed Brown	Simon Pagenaud		Rank 5
2015	Tequila Patron ESM	HPD ARX-03b	Ed Brown	Jon Fogarty		failure	malfunction
2016	Tequila Patron ESM	Ligier JS P2	Ed Brown	Scott Sharp	Luís Felipe Derani	Overall victory
2017	Tequila Patron ESM	OnRoak Nissan DPi	Ed Brown	Bruno Senna	Brendon Hartley	failure	malfunction
2018	Tequila Patron ESM	OnRoak Nissan DPi	Nicolas Lapierre	Luís Felipe Derani		Overall victory

Web links

Commons : Johannes van Overbeek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johannes van Overbeek at the Driver Database
• Johannes van Overbeek at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ SCCA National Championship 1995
2. ↑ ALMS season 1999
3. ↑ Grand-Am Sports Car Series 2003
4. ↑ Van Overbeck resigns