Patrick Long

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 2004 -
Teams White Lightning Racing, Petersen Motorsports, Flying Lizard Motorsports, IMSA Performance Matmut
Best finish 10th (2004)
Class wins 2 (2004, 2007)

Patrick Long (born July 28, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California) is a professional race car driver. He is a Porsche works driver since 2003, with whom he has earned grand touring class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans endurance races, plus three American Le Mans Series GT2 drivers titles in 2005, 2009 and 2010. Long is currently driving a Porsche 911 GT3-RSR for Flying Lizard Motorsports in the American Le Mans Series.

He also drives part-time in the NASCAR Camping World East Series. In a NASCAR race on June 6, 2009, Long was leading the race at Watkins Glen on the last lap before being passed in the final turn.[1] Just two weeks later, Long was in second place on the last lap at Infineon Raceway when he "punted" the leader (Joey Logano) who spun out. Although Long took the checkered flag first, he was stripped of the win by NASCAR due to "rough driving" and placed at the tail end of the lead lap.[2] After the penalty, Long finished 23rd after having started on the pole.[3]

In 2010, Long won the NASCAR West event at Portland and was leading at Tooele when a flat tire ended his day with three laps remaining. He finished 14th at the Elkhart Lake Nationwide race after leading two laps in a D'Hondt-Humphrey Toyota.

His younger brother, Kevin "Spanky" Long, is a professional skateboarder.

He raced in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans for the team Flying Lizard Motorsports in a Porsche 997 GT3-RSR along with Jörg Bergmeister and Lucas Luhr, finishing 18th overall.

In October 2011, he returned to the Gold Coast Australia for the annual V8 Supercar event to pair with Fabian Coulthard In the Walkinshaw Racing/Bundaberg Racing #61.[4]

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24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Class No Tyres Car Team Co-Drivers Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2004 GT 90 M Porsche 911 GT3-RS
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		 White Lightning Racing Jörg Bergmeister
Sascha Maassen		 327 10th 1st
2005 GT2 90 M Porsche 911 GT3-RSR
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		 Petersen Motorsports
White Lightning Racing		 Jörg Bergmeister
Timo Bernhard		 331 11th 2nd
2006 GT2 80 M Porsche 911 GT3-RSR
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		 Flying Lizard Motorsports Johannes van Overbeek
Seth Neiman		 309 18th 4th
2007 GT2 76 M Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Porsche 3.8L Flat-6		 IMSA Performance Matmut Raymond Narac
Richard Lietz		 320 15th 1st
2008 GT2 76 M Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Porsche 3.8L Flat-6		 IMSA Performance Matmut Raymond Narac
Richard Lietz		 26 DNF DNF
2009 GT2 76 M Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Porsche 4.0L Flat-6		 IMSA Performance Matmut Patrick Pilet
Raymond Narac		 265 DNF DNF
2010 GT2 76 M Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Porsche 4.0L Flat-6		 IMSA Performance Matmut Raymond Narac
Patrick Pilet		 321 17th 5th
2011 GTE
Pro		 80 M Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Porsche 4.0L Flat-6		 Flying Lizard Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister
Lucas Luhr		 310 18th 6th

References

  1. ^ Courchesne, Shawn (6 June 2009). "Last Lap Pass At Watkins Glen Gives Ryan Truex First Camping World East Victory". courant.com. http://blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2009/06/last-lap-pass-gives-ryan-truex.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. 
  2. ^ Pockrass, Bob (20 June 2009). "Joey Logano punted out of lead on last lap of Sonoma's Camping World West race". SceneDaily.com. http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles/sprintcupseries/Joey_Logano_punted_out_of_lead_on_last_lap_of_Sonomas_Camping_World_West_race.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. 
  3. ^ "Bennett Lane Winery 200 Presented by Supercuts Race Results". RacingWest. http://www.racingwest.com/series/west/2009/7/results.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. 
  4. ^ [1] Accessed 2011

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