Patrick Long

Patrick Long 2015

Patrick Dempsey , Joe Foster and Patrick Long's Porsche 997 GT3-RSR at the 2013 Le Mans 24-hour race

Patrick Long (born July 28, 1981 in Thousand Oaks ) is an American racing car driver .

Career in motorsport

Patrick Long began his career in karting and switched to the monopostos in 1999 at the age of 18 . He came to Europe and was third in the French Formula Renault Campus series in 1999 and second in the Avon Tires Formula Ford Eurotour and the Slick 50 Formula Ford Championship in 2001 . In 2002 he drove a full season in the British Formula Renault Championship , which he finished in eighth overall (champion Danny Watts ). At the end of the year he was invited by Helmut Marko as one of six drivers for the Red Bull F1 Driver Search , but did not receive a contract.

He was also invited to test days by Porsche , where he received a contract as a junior driver. In his first season as a Porsche works driver, he mainly drove cup races. He won a race in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany and finished the championship in seventh overall (champion Frank Stippler ahead of Mike Rockenfeller and Romain Dumas ).

Long rose to become a regular Porsche works driver and still is. He is the only American among the current 10 factory drivers. Since joining Porsche, Long has been registered for a wide variety of racing teams and not infrequently the professional racing driver in teams of Porsche customers. In the USA he drove for Penske Racing and Flying Lizard Motorsports, among others , and has been a professional for the US actor and racing driver Patrick Dempsey since 2013 . In Europe he supported Raymond Narac , one of the largest Porsche dealers in France , in his motorsport activities .

Long is a busy pilot. Between 2003 and 2015 he competed in 221 races, celebrated four overall victories and no fewer than 29 successes in various racing classes. He celebrated class wins in almost all well-known sports car races. At the 24 Hours of Daytona , 2004 and 2007 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , and in 2005 and 2014 at the 12 Hours of Sebring .

The name Long can also be found first in the final rankings of racing series. In 2005 , 2009 and 2010 he secured the GT2 classification of the American Le Mans Series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Dale White / White Lightning Racing	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Sascha Maassen	Rank 10 and class win
2005	White Lightning Racing	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Timo Bernhard	Rank 11
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 991 GT3-RSR	Johannes van Overbeek	Seth Neiman	Rank 18
2007	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Richard Lietz	15th place and class win
2008	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Richard Lietz	failure	accident
2009	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Patrick Pilet	failure	malfunction
2010	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Patrick Pilet	Rank 17
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Lucas Luhr	Rank 18
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Marco Holzer	failure	accident
2013	Dempsey Del Piero-Proton	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Patrick Dempsey	Joe Foster	Rank 29
2014	Dempsey Racing Proton	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Patrick Dempsey	Joe Foster	Rank 22
2015	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR	Patrick Dempsey	Marco Seefried	Rank 22
2016	Abu Dhabi Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR	Khaled Al Qubaisi	David Heinemeier Hansson	Rank 28
2017	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR	Abdulaziz Al Faisal	Mike Hedlund	Rank 37
2018	Proton Competition	Porsche 911 RSR	Tim Pappas	Spencer Pumpelly	Rank 29

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	New Century Mortgage Racers Group	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Cort Wagner	Kelly Collins		Rank 17
2005	Petersen White Lightning	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Lucas Luhr		Rank 7 and class win
2006	Penske Motorsports	Porsche RS Spyder	Romain Dumas	Timo Bernhard		failure	mechanics
2007	Blackboard Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Robin Liddell	Wolf Henzler		Rank 15
2008	Penske Racing	Porsche RS Spyder	Ryan Briscoe	Sascha Maassen		failure	Motor overheated
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Marc Lieb		Rank 10
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Marc Lieb		Rank 9
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Marc Lieb		Rank 16
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Marco Holzer		Rank 50
2014	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Michael Christensen		Rank 12 and class win
2015	Team Falken Tire	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Bryan Sellers	Wolf Henzler		Rank 12
2016	Black Swan Racing	Porsche 911 GT3 R.	Tim Pappas	Nicky Catsburg	Andy Pilgrim	Rank 34
2018	Wright Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R.	Mathieu Jaminet	Robert Renauer	Christina Nielsen	Rank 22
2019	Park Place Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R.	Patrick Lindsey	Nicholas Boulle		Rank 24

Web links

Commons : Patrick Long  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrick Long's website
• Patrick Long at the Driver Database
• Patrick Long at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Formula Renault Campus Series 1999
2. ↑ Avon Tires Formula Ford Eurotour 2001
3. ↑ Slick 50 Formula Ford Championship 2001
4. ^ British Formula Renault Championship 2002
5. ↑ Porsche Carrera Cup Germany 2003