Brendon Hartley

Brendon Hartley
Brendon Hartley at the 2011 Nürburgring World series by Renault round
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1989-11-10) 10 November 1989 Palmerston North (NZ)
2014 GP2 Series
Debut season	2010
Current team	Ocean Racing Technology
Car no.	24
Former teams	Scuderia Coloni
Starts	12
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	19th in 2011
Previous series
2009–11 2008–09 2008 2007 2006–07 2006 2005–06 2003–04 2002–03	Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula 3 Euro Series British Formula Three Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Toyota Racing Series Formula Ford New Zealand Formula First New Zealand
Championship titles
2007	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

Brendon Hartley (born 10 November 1989 in Palmerston North) is a New Zealander race car driver.

Career

Hartley was born in a family well integrated within motorsport. His father, Bryan, had raced in many forms of motorsport, most notably Formula Atlantic. At the age of six, Hartley began his motor racing career in kart racing, following his brother, Nelson's footsteps. Six years later, the young New Zealander competed in his first full–scale race championship, competing in the Formula First category. Up against many seasoned veterans, Hartley finished the season in seventh. In 2003, the thirteen-year-old got his first major break as he won that year's New Zealand Formula Ford Festival which resulted in him getting a drive for the following year's Formula Ford championship. In a car his brother used the previous year, he started four races and won two of them.

After a season in Formula Toyota New Zealand, Hartley moved to Europe, competing in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup (NEC). The New Zealander finished 14th and 10th in the Drivers' Championship in the Eurocup and North European Cup respectively, taking a podium position at Anderstorp in the latter. His second year in Formula Renault saw him stay in the Eurocup, but move from the NEC to the Italian championship. That year saw him take three wins in the Eurocup and three podiums in the Italian championship, and took championship title in the Eurocup. In 2007 Hartley also made his Formula Three debut in the Masters of Formula 3 at Zolder event. He finished an incredibly respectable 4th. This resulted in a test with A1 Team New Zealand and the role of the rookie driver for the series.

In 2008, Hartley competed in the British Formula Three Championship for Carlin Motorsport winning five times and eventually finished the championship in third. He would have placed higher up, due to a greater amount of retirements compared to that of his team-mates Jaime Alguersuari and Oliver Turvey. They had two each, while Hartley had six. He also competed in eight races in the Formula Three Euroseries for Carlin and RC Motorsport, and achieved two finishes in the points, although he was ineligible for points. In non-championship races, Hartley finished fifth at the Masters of Formula 3, and a sensational drive at the Macau Grand Prix to finish third, after crashing in the qualification race. He started 20th on the grid and recorded the fastest race lap. He stayed with Carlin for the full F3 Euroseries in 2009,^[1] finishing eleventh despite missing two rounds due to Formula Renault 3.5 Series commitments. In that series, Hartley competed for the defending champion Tech 1 Racing team,^[2] and ended fifteenth in the championship.

He has been confirmed at Tech 1 for a full season of Formula Renault 3.5 in 2010, where he was partnered by Australian and fellow Red Bull Junior driver, Daniel Ricciardo. During the series' summer break it was announced that Hartley had been dropped from the Red Bull Junior Team.^[3] His seat was taken by British Formula Three championship leader Jean-Éric Vergne.

Despite the loss of his Red Bull backing, Hartley made his GP2 Series début at Monza in September, replacing Vladimir Arabadzhiev at the Coloni team.^[4] He scored a point in the season finale at Yas Marina to place 27th in the championship.

For 2011, Hartley returned to Formula Renault 3.5, driving alongside Jan Charouz for the Gravity–Charouz Racing team. He also returned to GP2 for the eighth round of the series at Spa-Francorchamps, replacing Kevin Mirocha and driving alongside Johnny Cecotto, Jr. in the Ocean Racing Technology team, for whom he had tested before the start of the season.^[5] He finished in fifth place in his first race with the team, and 19th in the overall championship.

Hartley began the 2012 season without a drive, but returned to Ocean for the second round of the championship in Bahrain in place of Jon Lancaster.^[6] After the two rounds in Bahrain, he was in turn replaced by Víctor Guerin.^[7] He finished 25th in the championship.

With no suitable single-seater drives available, Hartley joined the Murphy Prototypes sportscar team, which was competing in the LMP2 class in the European Le Mans Series. Following the cancellation of the second round of the ELMS championship (which would have been Hartley's début event) and the series' future in doubt, Murphy was one of several ELMS teams invited to compete as a guest entry in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, a round of the more prestigious FIA World Endurance Championship. Driving the team's Oreca 03-Nissan, Hartley finished tenth overall and third in the LMP2 class with team-mates Warren Hughes and Jody Firth. The trio teamed up again for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but retired from the race after completing 196 laps of the circuit.

Formula One

In February 2008, aged 18, Hartley got his first taste of Formula One. He was invited to perform a show run for Red Bull Racing in Riyadh. From here he performed the initial three-day shake-down test for Scuderia Toro Rosso's 2008 spec car, the STR3.

In November 2008, it was announced he would be providing cover for Mark Webber, who had broken his leg in a cycling accident, by performing testing duties alongside permanent test driver Sébastien Buemi for Red Bull in the 2008 RB4 F1 car.^[8]

For the 2009 season, Hartley was appointed as official reserve driver for both the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso teams.^[9]

However, unable to get his mandatory superlicence approved until April 2009, he was replaced in this role by retired F1 driver David Coulthard for the first races in Melbourne and Sepang.^[10] Hartley made his debut as reserve and test driver at the Spanish Grand Prix on 8 May. He is the first New Zealander to achieve F1 driver status since Mike Thackwell in 1984.^[11] He was replaced in the role by fellow Red Bull Junior driver Jaime Alguersuari for the second half of the season.^[12] However Hartley didn't return to the reserve driver role with Red Bull and Toro Rosso following Jaime Alguersuari's promotion to a race seat, preferring to focus on his F3 and Renault World Series season. David Coulthard again took over the role.

For the 2010 season, Hartley was again appointed official reserve driver for both Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. He shared the reserve driver duties with his Formula Renault 3.5 team-mate, Australian Daniel Ricciardo. The two drivers shared the duties on a race-by-race basis until round six of the championship.^[13] Following this race, Hartley's support from Red Bull was dropped, based on the fact he had not won a race in his season and a half in the championship.

On 13 September 2012, he participated in the young driver test at Magny-Cours. He drove 87 laps for AMG Mercedes F1 on the final day, setting the third quickest time behind Jules Bianchi (Ferrari) and Rodolfo González (Force India).

Mercedes (2012-Present)

He said the simulator development work and the test drive with AMG Mercedes would give him a new opportunity to get back into Formula One.^[14][15][16]

Sports prototypes

Hartley has been signed to drive an Oreca 03-Nissan for Murphy Prototypes in the 2013 European Le Mans Series season.

Porsche later announced him as a factory driver of the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship.^[17]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Final Placing
2002–03	Formula First New Zealand		6	0	?	?	0	335	8th
2003–04	Formula Ford New Zealand		18	6	6	3	9	239	2nd
2005	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	GVI	15	3	1	2	7	807	3rd
2005–06	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	Victory Motorsport	12	1	0	0	8	711	8th
2006	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Motorsport Arena	14	0	0	1	1	151	10th
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0		14	0	0	0	0	21	13th
2006–07	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	Mark Petch Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Red Bull Team	14	4	6	4	8	134	1st
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia		14	1	1	5	5	236	3rd
	Masters of Formula 3	ASL Mücke Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
	Macau Grand Prix Formula Three	Carlin Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	12th
2008	British F3 Championship	Carlin Motorsport	22	5	5	4	11	208	3rd
	F3 Euroseries		8	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
		RC Motorsport
	Masters of Formula 3	Carlin Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Macau Grand Prix Formula Three		1	0	0	1	1	N/A	3rd
	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test Driver
2009	F3 Euroseries	Carlin Motorsport	16	1	0	0	1	15	11th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	13	0	1	3	1	26	15th
	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test and reserve Driver
		Red Bull Racing
	Macau Grand Prix	Carlin	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2010	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test and reserve Driver
		Red Bull Racing
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	13	0	0	2	1	50	10th
		P1 Motorsport
	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	4	0	0	0	0	1	27th
2011	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Gravity–Charouz Racing	16	0	0	2	3	95	7th
	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	4	0	0	0	0	4	19th
2012	24 Hours of Le Mans	Murphy Prototypes (LMP2)	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	4	0	0	0	0	1	25th
	Formula One	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Test Driver
2013	24 Hours of Le Mans	Murphy Prototypes (LMP2)	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	7th
	Formula One	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Test Driver

* Season in progress.
† – Hartley was ineligible to score points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2009	Tech 1 Racing	CAT SPR 12	CAT FEA 9	SPA SPR 11	SPA FEA 10	MON FEA 17	HUN SPR 17	HUN FEA 12	SIL SPR 5	SIL FEA 13	BUG SPR	BUG FEA	ALG SPR	ALG FEA	NÜR SPR 13	NÜR FEA 2	ALC SPR 15	ALC FEA 16	15th	26
2010	Tech 1 Racing	ALC 1 6	ALC 2 6	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 6	MON 1 4	BRN 1 2	BRN 2 6	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 Ret	HUN 1 4	HUN 2 9	HOC 1	HOC 2					10th	50
	P1 Motorsport														SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 15	CAT 1	CAT 2
2011	Gravity–Charouz Racing	ALC 1 21	ALC 2 Ret	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 8	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 Ret	MON 1 3	NÜR 1 15	NÜR 2 7	HUN 1 8	HUN 2 5	SIL 1 21	SIL 2 7	LEC 1 3	LEC 2 20	CAT 1 DNS	CAT 2 3	7th	95

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2010	Scuderia Coloni	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret	ABU FEA 9	ABU SPR 6					27th	1
2011	Ocean Racing Technology	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR 9	ITA FEA 22	ITA SPR 20							19th	4
2012	Ocean Racing Technology	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR1 FEA 10	BHR1 SPR Ret	BHR2 FEA 13	BHR2 SPR 16	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	SGP FEA	SGP SPR	25th	1

^* Season in progress.

Sportscars/GT results

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2012	Murphy Prototypes	Jody Firth Warren Hughes	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	196	DNF	DNF
2013	Murphy Prototypes	Karun Chandhok Mark Patterson	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	319	13th	7th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Murphy Prototypes	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SEB	SPA 3	LMN Ret	SIL 9	SAO	BHR	FUJ	SHA	NC†	0

† Guest driver

Rolex Sports Car Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap. Results are overall/class)

Rolex Sports Car Series results
Year	Team	Make	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
2013	Starworks Motorsport	Riley	BMW	DP	DAY 14	TXS 13	BAR 12	ATL 10	BEL 8	LEX 10	S6H 3	IMS 4	ELK 1	KAN 6	LGA 16	LRP	12th	252

* Season in progress.

Notes

External links

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Sporting positions
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Persondata
Name	Hartley, Brendon
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand racing driver
Date of birth	1989-11-10
Place of birth	Palmerston North (NZ)
Date of death
Place of death