Klaus Graf

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Klaus Graf at the 2012 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach

Klaus Graf (born 21 July 1969 in Dornhan) is a German race car driver. He is the son of rally driver Peter Graf. He livesin the United States while competing in the American Le Mans Series. He resulted LMP1 class champion in 2012, and runner-up in 2010 and 2011.

Graf has won championships and races in several road racing series. In 2004, he raced part-time in NASCAR Nextel Cup for BAM Racing. He competed in one race at Infineon Raceway finishing 17th; however, he attempted two other races during the year. In 2005 he won the Trans-Am Series Driver's Championship, becoming the first Trans Am champion born outside the United States since David Hobbs in 1983.

Klaus currently races for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing in the American Le Mans Series. His best finishes in the 2010 season were an LMP2 class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring sharing with team owner Greg Pickett and Sascha Maassen, and overall race wins (and LMP class) at the Northeast Grand Prix sharing with Pickett, and at the Grand Prix of Mosport sharing with Romain Dumas.

In 2011, Graf collected further victories at Long Beach, Mosport, Mid-Ohio and Road America in the team's Lola-Aston Martin. For 2012, Graf returns to the team and will be paired with Lucas Luhr in a new HPD ARX-03a for the entire ALMS season.

Klaus Graf won the 2012 and 2013 ALMS LMP1 driver's championships with codriver Lucas Luhr.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2000	Team Den Blå Avis	John Nielsen Mauro Baldi	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	205	DNF	DNF
2001	Panoz Motorsports	Jamie Davies Gary Formato	Panoz LMP07-Élan	LMP900	86	DNF	DNF
2008	Charouz Racing System Team Cytosport	Greg Pickett Jan Lammers	Lola B07/17-Judd	LMP1	146	DNF	DNF

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2003	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA	ESP 4	AUT 6	MON 14†	GER 7	FRA	GBR	GER 2	HUN	ITA Ret			8th	73
2003	Walter Lechner Racing School Team	Porsche 996 GT3											USA Ret	USA 8	8th	73
2004	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA 8	ESP 2	MON 10	GER 3	USA Ret	USA 5	FRA Ret	GBR 18†	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA 3	9th	86
2005	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	ITA	ESP	MON	GER 7	USA	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	BEL	NC‡	0‡

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

‡ — Guest driver – Not eligible for points.

References

CytoSport

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