Klaus Graf

Klaus Graf

Graf in the 2012 American Le Mans Series race at Long Beach
Nationality German
Born 21 July 1969
Dornhan, Germany
United SportsCar Championship career
Current team Muscle Milk Pickett Racing
Car no. 6
Engine Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish 72nd (2004)
First race 2004 Dodge/Save Mart 350 (Infineon)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 2000–2001, 2008
Teams Team Den Blå Avis, Panoz Motorsports, Charouz Racing System, Team Cytosport
Best finish DNF
Class wins 0

Klaus Graf (born 21 July 1969) is a German professional racing driver. He is the son of rally driver Peter Graf. He lives in 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.

Born in Dornhan, 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.

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 Denmark Team Den Blå Avis Denmark John Nielsen
Italy Mauro Baldi		 Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan LMP900 205 DNF DNF
2001 United States Panoz Motorsports United Kingdom Jamie Davies
South Africa Gary Formato		 Panoz LMP07-Élan LMP900 86 DNF DNF
2008 Czech Republic Charouz Racing System
United States Team Cytosport		 United States Greg Pickett
Netherlands 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
Walter Lechner Racing School Team USA
Ret		 USA
8
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.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold - Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics - Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nextel Cup Series

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Chris Dyson
Guy Smith		 American Le Mans Series champion
2012-2013
with Lucas Luhr 		Succeeded by
End Series