Nick Leventis

Nick Leventis 2016

The Strakka Racing-Gibson 015S at the 2015 Shanghai 6 Hours

Nick Leventis (born January 31, 1980 in London ) is a former British car racing driver and racing team owner.

Racing career

Nick Leventis was born in the London borough of Kensington and received his education at Harrow School . In his younger years he was a successful alpine skier specializing in downhill skiing . A back injury ended his professional ambitions. In 2003 he turned to motorsport and initially competed in races with historic racing vehicles. The greatest success during this phase of his career was third place in the Ferrari 330P3 in the legend race as part of the 2007 Le Mans 24-hour race .

In 2007, the driver's career began in professional motorsport, with a second place overall with Peter Hardman in the Aston Martin DBR9 at the 6-hour race in Vallelunga .

Strakka Racing

In autumn 2007 Nick Leventis founded his own racing team, Strakka Racing , in which he was also active as a driver from 2008. With the team he was involved in the Le Mans Series at the end of the 2000s . He made his debut at the Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race in 2008 with Peter Hardman in the Aston Martin DBR9. The duo finished the race that Marc Gené , Nicolas Minassian and Jacques Villeneuve won in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP in 24th place overall. After some good placings in the overall classification - fifth in the 1000 km race of Catalonia in 2009 and seventh in the 8 hours of Le Castellet in 2010 - he won the 1000 km race together with Danny Watts and Jonny Kane in the HPD ARX-01c at the Hungaroring 2010 .

With the start of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 , Leventis and his team switched to this racing series, in which he remained active until 2016 . After that, the team and drivers started in the Blancpain Endurance Series .

Nick Leventis made his debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2008 . His best placement in eight race starts so far was fifth in 2010 . This classification was synonymous with victory in the LMP2 class.

At the 8 Hours of California in October 2018, Leventis gave a positive doping test for two anabolic steroids . The FIA banned him for four years, after which he announced his resignation.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Vitaphone Racing Team	Aston Martin DBR9	Alexandre Negrao	Peter Hardman	failure	Engine failure
2009	Strakka Racing	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	Danny Watts	Peter Hardman	Rank 21
2010	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-01c	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	5th place and class win
2011	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-01d	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	failure	accident
2012	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-03a	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	Rank 30
2013	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-03ac	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	Rank 6
2015	Strakka Racing	Strakka Dome S103	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	failure	Radiator damage
2016	Strakka Racing	Gibson 015S	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	Rank 8

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2012	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-03a	Danny Watts	Jonny Kane	Rank 10

Web links

Commons : Nick Leventis  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nick Leventis at the Driver Database
• Nick Leventis at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6-hour race of Vallelunga 2007
2. ↑ 1000th km race of Catalonia 2009
3. ↑ Doping: Ex-LMP1 pilot Nick Leventis suspended by FIA