André Lotterer

André Lotterer
Lotterer in 2012.
Nationality	German
Born	(1981-11-19) 19 November 1981 Duisburg, West Germany
Championship titles
2012 2011 2006, 2009 1999 1998	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMP1 Formula Nippon Super GT – GT500 Formula BMW ADAC Formula BMW Junior

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2009–
Teams	Kolles, Audi Sport
Best finish	1st (2011, 2012, 2014)
Class wins	3 (2011, 2012, 2014)

Formula One World Championship career
Active years	2014
Teams	Caterham
Entries	1 (1 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2014 Belgian Grand Prix
Last entry	2014 Belgian Grand Prix

André Lotterer (born 19 November 1981) is a Belgian-German professional racing driver competing with a Belgian licence, while representing Germany.^[1] He is best known for his success in endurance racing with the works Audi team, including three victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the drivers' title of the FIA World Endurance Championship. He has also competed in the Japanese Super Formula series for over a decade, winning the title in 2011.

Lotterer was a test driver for the Jaguar Formula One team in 2002, but this did not lead to a race seat. Twelve years later, he joined Caterham, replacing Kamui Kobayashi at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix.

Racing career

Early life

Lotterer was born in Duisburg to a German father, Henri Lotterer, and a Belgian mother.^[2] He was raised with his Belgian mother in Nivelles and still resides in his hometown to this day.^[3] He competes with a Belgian racing licence, yet opts to represent Germany.^[1]^[2]

Single-seaters

Lotterer succeeded in both German and British Formula 3 championships en route to being named Jaguar Racing's Formula One test driver in 2002. He was passed up for a race seat in 2003 with Eddie Irvine retiring and Pedro de la Rosa leaving, as the team chose Mark Webber and Antônio Pizzonia instead.

Lotterer driving the Lexus SC430 for LEXUS TEAM PETRONAS TOM'S at the 2010 Super GT Fuji 400km race

Lotterer contested a one-off Champ Car event at the end of 2002 for Dale Coyne, scoring a point at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Circuit. Since then he moved to Japan doing very well in both Super Formula (formerly Formula Nippon) and the Japanese Super GT Championship for Lexus, winning the latter in 2006 and 2009.

Sportscars

Lotterer also made his debut in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, as a race week fill-in driver for the Kolles privateer Audi team. Lotterer and co-driver Charles Zwolsman, also a Le Mans rookie, drove the entire race themselves after third driver Narain Karthikeyan dislocated his shoulder in a non-racing related injury. Driving an Audi R10, the car that won the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Le Mans races, Lotterer and Zwolsman finished 7th overall and in the LMP1 class.

His impressive performance that year earned him a drive with the works Audi Sport team in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving the new Audi R15 TDI plus. Along with Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer, he finished 2nd overall and in the LMP1 class, despite the rival Peugeot 908s dominating for the first part of the race.

Lotterer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2014

He remained with Audi Sport to compete in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, co-driving the newly designed Audi R18 with Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer. After the Audi works team lost two out of three cars due to accidents, Lotterer and his co-drivers held off three works Peugeot 908s to claim both 1st place in the LMP1 class and the overall victory, beating the 2nd place Peugeot by a mere 13 seconds. This win gave Audi 10 overall victories at Le Mans and Lotterer his first overall win at Le Mans.

For 2012, Lotterer competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for Audi Sport Team Joest in a new Audi R18 e-tron quattro.

Formula One

Caterham (2014)

He replaced Caterham F1 driver Kamui Kobayashi for a one-off race at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix.^[4] He qualified 21st place, in front of team mate Marcus Ericsson, but his race lasted just one lap before a mechanical failure put an abrupt end to his F1 debut.^[5] He was invited to race again at the Italian Grand Prix, but declined as the team planned to run Roberto Merhi in the car for the first practice session, contrary to his desire to take part in all the available running due to his lack of experience.^[6]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
1998	Formula BMW Junior		20	14	?	?	?	318	1st
1999	Formula BMW ADAC	BMW Rookie Team	18	15	9	?	15	324	1st
1999	Eurocup Formula Renault	RC Motorsport	9	1	?	?	?	86	5th
2000	German Formula Three Championship	Opel Team BSR	20	3	1	2	7	151	4th
2000	FIA European Formula Three Cup	Opel Team BSR	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	8th
2001	Formula One	Jaguar Racing F1 Team	Test driver
	British Formula 3 Championship	Jaguar Junior Team	25	1	3	1	5	143	7th
	Masters of Formula 3	Jaguar Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
2002	Formula One	Jaguar Racing F1 Team	Test driver
	FIA GT Championship – N-GT	Freisinger Motorsport	1	0	0	0	1	9	19th
	CART	Dale Coyne Racing	1	0	0	0	0	1	22nd
2003	Formula Nippon	Nakajima Racing	10	0	1	0	3	22	5th
2003	JGTC – GT500	Nakajima Racing	5	0	0	0	1	19	16th
2004	Formula Nippon	Nakajima Racing	9	2	1	1	4	33	2nd
2004	JGTC – GT500	Nakajima Racing	7	1	0	0	1	42	8th
2005	Formula Nippon	Nakajima Racing	9	2	0	0	2	20	4th
2005	Super GT – GT500	Nakajima Racing	8	0	1	0	1	38	9th
2006	Formula Nippon	TOM'S Racing	9	2	0	0	3	30	3rd
2006	Super GT – GT500	Toyota Team TOM'S	9	1	0	0	3	80	1st
2007	Formula Nippon	TOM'S Racing	9	1	0	1	3	37	5th
2007	Super GT – GT500	Toyota Team TOM'S	9	1	0	0	1	54	6th
2008	Formula Nippon	Petronas Team TOM'S	11	0	0	0	4	49	3rd
2008	Super GT – GT500	Toyota Team TOM'S	9	0	0	0	4	63	3rd
2008–09	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Germany	2	0	0	0	0	2	21st
2009	Le Mans 24 Hours – LMP1	Kolles	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	7th
	Formula Nippon	Petronas Team TOM'S	8	1	0	0	4	39	3rd
	Super GT – GT500	Lexus Team TOM'S	9	1	0	0	5	88	1st
2010	Le Mans 24 Hours – LMP1	Audi Sport Team Joest	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
	Formula Nippon	Petronas Team TOM'S	8	1	0	0	7	43	2nd
	Super GT – GT500	Lexus Team TOM'S	7	1	0	0	3	62	2nd
2011	Le Mans 24 Hours – LMP1	Audi Sport Team Joest	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	Formula Nippon	Petronas Team TOM'S	6	5	2	1	6	56	1st
	Super GT – GT500	Lexus Team TOM'S	8	0	0	0	0	39	8th
2012	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMP1	Audi Sport Team Joest	8	3	3	0	7	172.5	1st
2012	Formula Nippon	Petronas Team TOM'S	8	2	1	0	3	38	4th
2013	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMP1	Audi Sport Team Joest	8	3	3	0	6	149.25	2nd
2013	Super Formula	Petronas Team TOM'S	4	2	0	2	4	37	2nd
2014	Formula One	Caterham F1 Team	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMP1-H	Audi Sport Team Joest	8	2	0	0	2	127	2nd
	Super Formula	Petronas Team TOM'S	8	2	3	1	4	34.5	3rd
2015	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMP1	Audi Sport Team Joest	8	2	0	0	8	161	2nd
2015	Super Formula	Petronas Team TOM'S	8	3	2	1	3	40	3rd

Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results

(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
2003	Nakajima Racing	SUZ 2	FUJ 4	MIN 7	MOT 6	SUZ Ret	SUG 2	FUJ 3	MIN 9	MOT 5	SUZ Ret		5th	22
2004	Nakajima Racing	SUZ 2	SUG 4	MOT 1	SUZ 8	SUG Ret	MIN Ret	SEP 1	MOT 3	SUZ 7			2nd	33
2005	Nakajima Racing	MOT 11	SUZ Ret	SUG 9	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	MIN 10	FUJ 1	MOT Ret	SUZ 1			4th	20
2006	TOM'S Racing	FUJ 8	SUZ 5	MOT 1	SUZ 5	AUT 8	FUJ 2	SUG Ret	MOT Ret	SUZ 1			3rd	30
2007	TOM'S Racing	FUJ Ret	SUZ 5	MOT 2	OKA Ret	SUZ 13	FUJ 1	SUG 7	MOT 4	SUZ 2			5th	37
2008	Petronas Team TOM'S	FUJ Ret	SUZ 3	MOT 2	OKA 2	SUZ 2	SUZ 4	MOT 11	MOT 7	FUJ 5	FUJ 4	SUG 12	3rd	49
2009	Petronas Team TOM'S	FUJ 10	SUZ 3	MOT 5	FUJ 8	SUZ 7	MOT 1	AUT 2	SUG 2				3rd	39
2010	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ 3	MOT 3	FUJ 2	MOT Ret	SUG 3	AUT 1	SUZ 3	SUZ 2				2nd	43
2011	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ 1	AUT	FUJ 1	MOT 2	SUZ C	SUG 1	MOT 1	MOT 1				1st	56
2012	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ 5	MOT 1	AUT Ret	FUJ 1	MOT 2	SUG 10	SUZ 5	SUZ 8				4th	38
2013	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ	AUT 1	FUJ 1	MOT 2	SUG 2	SUZ	SUZ					2nd	37
2014	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ 6	FUJ 4	FUJ 1	FUJ 6	MOT	AUT 1	SUG Ret	SUZ 3	SUZ 2			3rd	34.5
2015	Petronas Team TOM'S	SUZ 1	OKA 8	FUJ 5	MOT 4	AUT 11	SUG 1	SUZ 1	SUZ Ret				3rd	40

Complete JGTC/Super GT results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2003	Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI	FUJ	SUG	FUJ 13	FUJ 9	MOT Ret	AUT 2	SUZ 12		16th	19
2004	Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 10	SUG 4	SEP 9	TOK 6	MOT 1	AUT 12	SUZ 5			8th	42
2005	Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	OKA 5	FUJ 8	SEP 5	SUG 13	MOT 10	FUJ 2	AUT 14	SUZ 10		9th	38
2006	Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 1	OKA 8	FUJ 3	SEP 15	SUG 4	SUZ 10	MOT 2	AUT 7	FUJ 4	1st	80
2007	Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 7	OKA 5	FUJ DNS	SEP 8	SUG 5	SUZ 1	MOT 6	AUT 6	FUJ 6	6th	54
2008	Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 3	OKA 4	FUJ 2	SEP 7	SUG 10	SUZ 3	MOT 3	AUT 8	FUJ 7	3rd	63
2009	Lexus Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	OKA 11	SUZ 2	FUJ 2	SEP 6	SUG 7	SUZ 8	FUJ 3	AUT 1	MOT 2	1st	88
2010	Lexus Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 4	OKA 3	FUJ 2	SEP 8	SUG 7	SUZ 10	FUJ C	MOT 1		2nd	62
2011	Lexus Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	OKA 4	FUJ 4	SEP 6	SUG 9	SUZ 6	FUJ 15	AUT 4	MOT 8		8th	39

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	Kolles	Charles Zwolsman, Jr. Narain Karthikeyan	Audi R10 TDI	LMP1	369	7th	7th
2010	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R15 TDI plus	LMP1	396	2nd	2nd
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 TDI	LMP1	355	1st	1st
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	378	1st	1st
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	338	5th	5th
2014	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1-H	379	1st	1st
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	393	3rd	3rd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SEB 11	SPA 2	LMS 1	SIL 1	SÃO 2	BHR 1	FUJ 2	SHA 3	1st	172.5
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL 2	SPA 1	LMS 5	SÃO 1	COA 3	FUJ 14	SHA 1	BHR 2	2nd	149.25
2014	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL Ret	SPA 5	LMS 1	COA 1	FUJ 6	SHA 4	BHR 4	SÃO 5	2nd	127
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL 1	SPA 1	LMS 3	NÜR 3	COA 2	FUJ 3	SHA 3	BHR 2	2nd	161

Complete Formula One results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	WDC	Points
2014	Caterham F1 Team	Caterham CT05	Renault Energy F1‑2014 1.6 V6 t	AUS	MAL	BHR	CHN	ESP	MON	CAN	AUT	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL Ret	ITA	SIN	JPN	RUS	USA	BRA	ABU	NC	0

References

1 2 De Wilde, Olivier (18 August 2014). "André Lotterer en F1 à Spa ? Le Nivellois a déjà moulé son siège chez Caterham..." [André Lotter in F1 in Spa? The Nivellois has already fitted his seat with Caterham...]. DH.be (in French). La Dernière Heure / Les Sports S.A. d'Informations et de Productions Multimédia. Retrieved 27 January 2014. A trente-deux ans, le pilote qui a grandi chez nous à Nivelles et roule sous licence belge, André Lotterer, devrait disputer son premier Grand Prix de Formule 1 dimanche prochain à Francorchamps.
1 2 Halleux, Stéphane (21 August 2014). "Belgische Duitser start in Spa in F1" [Belgian German makes F1 debut in Spa]. Autoscout24 (in Dutch). AutoScout24 GmbH. Retrieved 27 January 2014. André Lotterer heeft Duisburg als geboorteplaats, maar hij groeide op in Nijvel. Hij rijdt overigens nog met een Belgische licentie. Zijn pa, Henri Lotterer, boog zich over de motoren voor het RAS-team, bekend uit de rallysport en de toerwagenraces.
↑ "Stoffel Vandoorne RACB Driver of the Year 2014". RACB (in French). Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014. Au cours de cette cérémonie, Jacky Ickx a remis à André Lotterer, qui vit depuis sa plus tendre enfance en Belgique et licencié belge ces dernières saisons, l’Honorary Mention pour ses trois victoires aux 24 Heures du Mans et les excellents résultats qu’il signe régulièrement dans les épreuves du FIA World Endurance Championship.
↑ "Belgian GP: Andre Lotterer in for Kamui Kobayashi at Caterham". BBC News. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
↑ "Sunday in Belgium". Caterham F1. 24 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
↑ "Caterham confirms Kobayashi's Monza F1 return and Merhi's FP1 run". autosport.com (Haymarket Publishing). 4 September 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Stefan Mücke	Formula BMW ADAC Champion 1999	Succeeded by Hannes Lachinger
Preceded by Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Super GT (GT500) Champion 2006 With: Juichi Wakisaka	Succeeded by Daisuke Itō Ralph Firman
Preceded by Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Super GT (GT500) Champion 2009 With: Juichi Wakisaka	Succeeded by Takashi Kogure Loïc Duval
Preceded by Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Mike Rockenfeller	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2011–2012 With: Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Succeeded by Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval
Preceded by João Paulo de Oliveira	Formula Nippon Champion 2011	Succeeded by Kazuki Nakajima
Preceded by None	FIA World Endurance Champion 2012 With: Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Succeeded by Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval
Preceded by Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2014 With: Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Succeeded by Earl Bamber Nico Hülkenberg Nick Tandy

Caterham F1 Team

Founder: Tony Fernandes

Noted personnel: Cyril Abiteboul; Christijan Albers; Riad Asmat; Finbarr O'Connell; Mike Gascoyne; John Iley; Colin Kolles; Steve Nielsen; Manfredi Ravetto; Mark Smith; Graham Watson

Noted drivers: Heikki Kovalainen; Vitaly Petrov; Charles Pic; Giedo van der Garde; Marcus Ericsson; Kamui Kobayashi; André Lotterer; Will Stevens

Formula One cars: CT01; CT03; CT05

Related: Caterham Group; Caterham Racing GP2 Team

Audi Sport Team Joest 24 Hours of Le Mans driver timeline, 1999–present

Drivers	Christian Abt (2000) Michele Alboreto (1999–2000) Filipe Albuquerque (2014–2015) Laurent Aïello (1999–2001) Timo Bernhard (2009–2011) Frank Biela (1999–2002; 2006–2008) Marco Bonanomi (2012; 2014–2015) Rinaldo Capello (1999–2002; 2006–2012) Lucas di Grassi (2013–2015) Romain Dumas (2009–2012) Loïc Duval (2012–2013; 2015) Marcel Fässler (2010–2015) Marc Gené (2012–2014) Johnny Herbert (2002) Oliver Jarvis (2014–2015) Tom Kristensen (2000–2002; 2006–2014) Michael Krumm (2002) André Lotterer (2010–2015) Lucas Luhr (2007–2009) Allan McNish (2000; 2006–2013) Stéphane Ortelli (2000) Christian Pescatori (2001–2002) Philipp Peter (2002) Emanuele Pirro (1999–2002; 2006–2008) Alexandre Prémat (2007–2009) René Rast (2015) Mike Rockenfeller (2007–2012) Didier Theys (1999) Benoît Tréluyer (2010–2015) Marco Werner (2002; 2006–2009)

Cars	R8R (1999) R8 (2000, 2001, 2002) R10 TDI (2006, 2007, 2008) R15 TDI (2009) R15 TDI plus (2010) R18 TDI (2011) R18 Ultra & E-Tron (2012) R18 E-Tron (2013, 2014, 2015)

Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Nine-time	Tom Kristensen

Six-time	Jacky Ickx

Five-time	Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro

Four-time	Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo

Three-time	Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner

Two-time	Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz

One-time	Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bamber Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bernhard Bianchi Bloch Blundell Bouchut D. Brabham G. Brabham Brundle Chaboud Clement Cobb Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumas Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Gachot Gené González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Howe Hülkenberg Johansson Jones Kidston Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pironi Riess Rindt Rockenfeller Rodríguez Rolt Rondeau J. Rosier L. Rosier Rubin Salvadori Sanderson Scarfiotti Schuppan Sekiya Shelby Smith Tandy Trémoulet Trintignant Vaccarella Veyron Walker Wallace Warwick Weidler Whitehead B. Whittington D. Whittington Winkelhock

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