Jonathan Hirschi

Jonathan Hirschi

Nation:	Switzerland
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally France 2012
Last rally:	Rally France 2015
Co-driver:	Vincent Landais
Team:	Jonathan Hirschi
Vehicle:	Peugeot 208 T16
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 7th - - -
Points:	-
Status: After rally 11 of 13, 2015 season

Jonathan Hirschi (born February 2, 1986 in Saint-Imier , Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss car racing driver.

Career

Jonathan Hirschi started motorsport in 2002 in the national kart championship. In the following years he competed in various races in national championships in Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy. In these championships he could win races or finish on the podium of the top three.

In 2007 he drove three races in the German Formula 3 Championship . Seventh place was his best result. In the overall ranking of the championship he was rated 15th.

After repeated good results in 2007 and 2008, Hirschi was runner-up in the European Megané Trophy in 2009 . He won three races that season, two at Spa and one in Barcelona .

In 2010, Hirschi contested the FIA GT1 World Championship with the Hexis Racing team in an Aston Martin DBR9 . The team secured the world title. Hirschi finished second at Silverstone as the best result and took two pole positions. With 62 points, he finished twelfth in the world championship.
In the French Porsche Carrera Cup, Hirschi finished on the top three podium three times in the same year.

Jonathan Hirschi in the Oreca-Judd (LMP2) in Le Castellet 2012

At the Le Mans 24-hour race in 2011 he started in the LM GTE PRO class with a Lotus Evora GTE from the Lotus Jetalliance team. In the final ranking he finished 22nd and seventh in his class.

At the same time, Hirschi competed in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), the Blancpain Endurance Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012 and 2013.

Another passion of Jonathan Hirschi is rallying . In the European Rally Championship (ERC), he finished sixth at the 2012 Rallye International du Valais . A fourth place followed in the same rally in 2014. In 2012 and 2014 he started in the World Rally Championship in the WRC2 and WRC classes . Until then, he has not achieved any notable success. In 2015, further rallies are planned in WRC2. At the Monte Carlo Rally he finished 19th overall and fifth in the WRC2 class .

statistics

Individual results WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	Points	rank
2012	Saintéloc Racing	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP	-	-
													DNF
2014	HRT rally team	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR	-	-
													50
2015	Jonathan Hirschi	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR	-	-
			19th				DNF		DNF		DNF		25th

Individual results WRC2

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Points	rank
2015	Jonathan Hirschi	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		18th	24
			5				DNF		DNF		DNF		6th

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
2010	Matech Competition	Ford GT1	Romain Grosjean	Thomas Mutsch	failure	accident
2011	Jetalliance Racing Team	Lotus Evora GTE	James Rossiter	Johnny Mowlem	Rank 22
2012	Race performance	Oreca 03	Michel Frey	Ralph Meichtry	Rank 26
2013	HVM status GP	Lola B12 / 80	Tony Burgess	Johnny Mowlem	failure	accident
2017	CEPC Manor TRS Racing	Oreca 07	Gate Graves	Jean-Éric Vergne	Rank 7
2018	Graff SO24	Oreca 07	Vincent Capillaire	Tristan Gommendy	Rank 6
2019	Graff	Oreca 07	Vincent Capillaire	Tristan Gommendy	Rank 14

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Hirschi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jonathan Hirschi official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ jonathan-hirschi.ch: PROFIL , accessed on May 16, 2015.
2. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Jonathan Hirschi , accessed on May 16, 2015.