Johannes van Overbeek
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 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ SCCA National Championship 1995
- ↑ ALMS season 1999
- ↑ Grand-Am Sports Car Series 2003
- ↑ Van Overbeck resigns
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Overbeek, Johannes van |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sacramento |