Lucas Luhr

Lucas Luhr

Nation:
DTM
First race:	Hockenheim 2007
Last race:	Hockenheim II 2007
Teams (manufacturers)
2007 Team Rosberg ( Audi )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 10 - - -
Podiums:	-
Overall wins:	-
Points:	1
Status: end of 2007 season

Lucas Waldemar Luhr (born July 22, 1979 in Koblenz ) is a German automobile racing driver and winner of the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship .

Career

Karting

1989 Luhr got into karting . In 1990 he won the Kerpen Junior Club Championship with eight wins in ten races. In 1991 the successful title defense followed. In 1992 he was second in the North Rhine-Westphalian Kart Championship, the DMV Championship and the Stefan Bellof Cup . In the same year Luhr won the Winter Cup in Kerpen. In 1993 he won the gold cup in Dahlem , the international season finale in Schaafheim and the DMV championship. In addition, he came second in the Winter Cup in Kerpen and a third place in the national championships.

In 1994 Luhr became a works driver at CRG Italy, for which he won the European Championship and the South Garda Karting Trofeo . At the world championships and the Italian championships it was enough for a fourth place. The change in 1995 as a works driver to Jolly-Kart Italy was not crowned with great success, but was enough for participation in the European and World Championships and a fifth place in the World Cup in Charlotte (USA).

Formula series

In 1996, when he switched to Eifelland-Racing, he made the leap from karting to Formula Ford , in which Luhr was international runner-up, and to Formula Opel , in which he scored a victory at Hockenheim. As early as the next year he was promoted to Formula 3 when he joined Haddaway F3 Racing in the middle of the season in 1997. In 1998, when he switched to MKL F3 Racing, he won the opening race in Hockenheim and came eighth in the Formula 3 championship.

Le Mans Series

Lucas Luhr was a works driver at Porsche from 1999 to 2006 , where he achieved a large number of victories, including in important races such as the Le Mans 24-hour race . In June 2006 he won the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring together with Timo Bernhard , Mike Rockenfeller and Marcel Tiemann in a Porsche 996 GT3-MR . He repeated this victory in 2011, this time together with Marc Lieb , Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas . In 2012 Luhr drove in the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series . In 2013 he joined the ALMS for the Picket Racing team.

DTM

Lucas Luhr at the race in Oschersleben 2007

During the winter break for the 2007 season, he separated from Porsche and was in the year 2007 in the DTM with a used Audi at Team Rosberg at the start. Here, however, he was only able to score one point, which earned him 17th place in the overall standings.

GT series

In 2011 Luhr started in the FIA GT1 World Championship , which he won in a team with Michael Krumm .

Indycar

Through his ALMS connection to Honda, Luhr received the offer to take part in the GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma , a race in the IndyCar series , on August 25, 2013 . He finished 25th (and last) in qualifying and 22nd in the race.

ADAC GT Masters

In 2017/2018, the motorsport team IronForce Racing was created in a cooperation between JP Performance and Ring Police , which will start in the ADAC GT Masters racing series from 2018. Together with Jan-Erik Slooten , Luhr occupies the team's driver position. In the same year, Luhr and Slooten also completed the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring independently of the GT Masters for the Getspeed Performance racing team, together with their team drivers Marek Böckmann and Steve Jans . At the beginning of 2020, Lucas Luhr announced that he would not start with IronForce Racing in 2020 .

Private

Lucas Luhr is married and has two children. He lives in Ermatingen on Lake Constance . Private hobbies are wakeboarding and his Harley-Davidson .

He was arrested at a 2016 Imsa series graduation ceremony and fined $ 600. His crime was peeing drunk in a parking lot.

title

• 1994 European kart champion
• 1996 Vice Champion International Formula Ford
• 1999 Porsche Carrera Cup champion
• 2000 runner-up in the American Le Mans Series (GT)
• 2002 Champion American Le Mans Series (GT), Le Mans winner (GT)
• 2003 Champion American Le Mans Series (GT), Le Mans winner (GT)
• 2004 Champion FIA-GT (N-GT class)
• 2006 Champion American Le Mans Series (LMP2)
• 2008 Champion American Le Mans Series (LMP1)
• 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship
• 2012 Champion American Le Mans Series (LMP1)

statistics

Major victories

• 2000 1st place / class - 12 hours of Sebring
• 2000 1st place - 1000 km race Nürburgring
• 2001 1st place - Daytona 24 Hours
• 2001 1st place / class - 12 hours of Sebring
• 2002 1st place / box office - 12 hours of Sebring
• 2003 1st place / class - ALMS - 12 hours Sebring
• 2005 1st place / class - ALMS - 12 hours Sebring
• 2005 1st place - GT2 - 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps
• 2006 1st place - Nürburgring 24 Hours
• 2011 1st place - Nürburgring 24 Hours

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Dick Barbour Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Bob Wollek	Dirk Mueller	Disqualified
2002	The Racer's Group	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Kevin Buckler	Timo Bernhard	16th place and class win
2003	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Emmanuel Collard	Sascha Maassen	14th place and class win
2007	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R10 TDI	Mike Rockenfeller	Alexandre Prémat	failure	accident
2008	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R10 TDI	Mike Rockenfeller	Alexandre Prémat	Rank 4
2009	Audi Sport North America	Audi R15	Mike Rockenfeller	Marco Werner	failure	accident
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Patrick Long	Jörg Bergmeister	Rank 18
2013	Iota sport	Zytek Z11SN	Simon Dolan	Oliver Turvey	Rank 14

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Dick Barbour Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Dirk Mueller		Rank 10 and class win
2001	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Sascha Maassen	Emmanuel Collard	Rank 8 and class win
2002	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Sascha Maassen		Rank 12 and class win
2003	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Sascha Maassen		Rank 10 and class win
2004	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Romain Dumas	Marc Lieb	Rank 10
2005	Petersen Motorsports White Lightning Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Patrick Long	Rank 7 and class win
2006	Penske Motorsports	Porsche RS Spyder	Sascha Maassen	Emmanuel Collard	failure	malfunction
2008	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	Marco Werner	Mike Rockenfeller	Rank 6
2009	Audi Sport North America	Audi R15	Marco Werner	Mike Rockenfeller	Rank 3
2011	Muscle Milk Aston Martin Racing	Lola B08 / 62	Greg Pickett	Klaus Graf	failure	mechanics
2012	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a	Simon Pagenaud	Klaus Graf	failure	malfunction
2013	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03c	Romain Dumas	Klaus Graf	Rank 4
2014	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Oreca 03	Jann Mardenborough	Klaus Graf	failure	malfunction
2015	BMW Team RLL	BMW Z4 GTE	John Edwards	Jens Klingmann	Rank 13
2016	BMW Team RLL	BMW M6 GTLM	John Edwards	Kuno Wittmer	Rank 15

Web links

Commons : Lucas Luhr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Lucas Luhr in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sportscar-info.de: ADAC GT Masters: Lucas Luhr and Ring Police go their separate ways Daniel Stauche - February 7, 2020, 19.17
2. ↑ Motorsport-Magazin.com: Iron Force Racing from co-founder JP Kraemer 2020 not at the start Robert Seiwert, February 10, 2020, 11:43 am
3. ↑ https://www.motorsport-total.com/imsa/news/betrunken-auf-parkplatz-gepinkelt-lucas-luhr-verhaftet-16100501