Lars Kern

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Lars Kern (born November 18, 1987 ) is a German test and development driver for the sports car manufacturer Porsche , who also takes part in various racing events for the brand.

Career in motorsport

Lars Kern celebrated his first successes in 2005 when he won automobile slalom races for the MSC Mühlacker . Two years later, he finished the Trans-Siberian Rally from Moscow to Mongolia in fourth place. In the following year he finished the endurance race plagued by technical defects in 17th place overall.

In 2010, Kern contested two races in the ADAC GT Masters and was class winner of the Porsche Super Sports Cup in class 5c. He started for his own team, JoLa Competition , which he supervised as team boss the following year. Wendelin Wiedeking Jr. took his driver's seat for this . a.

He contested his first race in the VLN endurance championship on April 2, 2016 at the 62nd ADAC Westfalenfahrt in a BMW 325i in the near-series V4 class. His first assignment on Porsche in endurance championship soon followed on April 30 on one of Manthey Racing used Porsche Cayman GT4 CS . Four weeks later he made his debut in the 24h race at the Nürburgring , in which he and Christoph Breuer and Christian Gebhardt clinched class victory in the SP-X (23rd overall).

During his first outing on a GT3 vehicle in April 2017, Kern immediately won the Pro-Am classification. His driver colleagues in the Porsche 911 GT3 R also used by Manthey were Otto Klohs and Porsche junior driver Mathieu Jaminet . In the same year , he contested the 24h race again in a Porsche Cayman GT4 CS. Together with Christoph Breuer and Moritz Oberheim he achieved 27th overall and 2nd place in the SP-X class, four laps behind the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG003C, who is up to 40 seconds faster per lap .

Lars Kern celebrated his first overall victory on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife at the ninth and final round of the 2017 VLN endurance championship season. Together with works driver Frédéric Makowiecki , who qualified the 911 GT3 R in second place on Saturday morning, the four-hour race was won in front of competitors from Mercedes-AMG and Audi . Kern's first VLN overall victory was also the 50th of his team Manthey-Racing.

In January 2018, the Manthey-Racing Porsche 991 GT3 R (start number # 12) with Klohs / Kern / Jaminet / Müller finished second overall in the 24-hour race in Dubai . The 46th edition of the ADAC Zurich 24-hour race at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife closed Lars Kern together with Otto Klohs, Dennis Olsen and Philip Frommenwiler with six laps behind the winning Manthey Racing Porsche overall 18 (17th place in class SP9) from.

statistics

successes

  • 2010: Champion Porsche Super Sports Cup (class 5c)
  • 2016: Class win 24-hour race Nürburgring (Class SP-X)
  • 2017: 2nd place in the SP-X class at the Nürburgring 24-hour race
  • 2017: Record lap for street legal vehicles on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife: 6: 47.25 minutes (Porsche 991 GT2 RS)
  • 2017: Overall victory 42nd DMV Münsterlandpokal, VLN
  • 2017: evo Magazine - Driver of the Year
  • 2018: 2nd place in the Dubai 24 Hours (overall)
  • 2018: Lap record for street legal vehicles on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife: 6: 40.3 minutes (Porsche 991 GT2 RS MR)

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2019 CanadaCanada PFAFF Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R. CanadaCanada Scott Hargrove CanadaCanada Zacharie Robichon Rank 28

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MSC Weingarten , accessed on January 18, 2019
  2. ↑ DriverDB , accessed January 18, 2019
  3. ↑ Steffen-Michael Eigner: Lars Kern is celebrating his comeback. In: Muehlacker-Tagblatt.de. April 15, 2016, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 44th ADAC Zurich 24h Race Official Result. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Double success for Manthey-Racing (press release). In: Manthey-Racing.de. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 45th ADAC Zurich 24h Race Official Result. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ New record! 50th VLN overall victory for Manthey-Racing (press release). In: Manthey-Racing.de. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Black Falcon takes outright win at the Hankook 24H DUBAI in 2018. In: 24hseries.com. January 13, 2018, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 46th ADAC Zurich 24h Race Official Result Race. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ MASTERLY FINAL IN HOCKENHEIM. In: Motorsport-XL.de. October 27, 2010, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  11. ^ Evo Staff: Driver of the year - the drivers that did it best in 2017. In: evo.co.uk. December 29, 2017, accessed January 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German development and automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1987