Jon Fogarty

Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty's Chevrolet Corvette DP in the 2012 Road America 2-hour race

Jonathan "Jon" Fogarty (born May 23, 1975 in Palo Alto ) is an American racing driver .

Racing career

Jon Fogarty began his career in 1998 in the Barber Dodge Pro Series , a US American monoposto youth series. In 2000 he finished the season in this series behind Nilton Rossoni in second place overall. After a year in the Indy Lights , he was the overall winner of the Atlantic Championship in 2002, ahead of Michael Valiante and Alex Gurney . After another overall win in the 2004 series (this time ahead of Ryan Dalziel and Danica Patrick ), he switched to GT and sports car racing at the start of the 2005 season .

He became a regular starter in the American Le Mans - and the Grand-Am Sports Car Series and their successor series, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship . By the end of the 2015 racing season, he was able to celebrate 16 overall victories in 132 starts. He scored his first victory in the 400-km race in Mexico City in 2007 , with his partner Alex Gurney in Riley Mk.XI of GAINSCO Bob Stallings Racing . His last success so far was the overall victory in the 2013 2.45-hour race in Austin .

In 2007 and 2009 he won the overall ranking of the Grand-Am Sports Car Series. In 2015 , he finished his only 24-hour race at Le Mans so far in 15th place overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2015	Extreme speed motorsports	Ligier JS P2	Johannes van Overbeek	Ed Brown	Rank 15

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Darren Law	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 12
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Darren Law		Rank 12
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Marc Lieb	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 9
2012	Black Swan Racing	Lola B11 / 80	Tim Pappas	Bret Curtis	Rank 28
2013	JDX Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Jan Heylen	Mike Hedlund	Rank 27
2014	Action Express Racing	Chevrolet Corvette DP	Brian Frisselle	Burt Frisselle	Rank 8
2015	Tequila Patron ESM	HPD ARX-03b	Ed Brown	Johannes van Overbeek	failure	malfunction

Web links

Commons : Jon Fogarty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jon Fogarty at the Driver Database
• Jon Fogarty at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barber Dodge Pro Series 2000
2. ^ Atlantic Championship 2002
3. ^ Atlantic Championship 2004
4. ↑ 400km Mexico City 2007 race
5. ↑ 2013 2.45 Hours of Austin