Richard Lietz

Richard Lietz
Richard Lietz
	Lietz in 2016
Nationality	Austrian
Born	17 December 1983; Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria
WEC career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Porsche GT Team
Car number	91
Former teams	Team Manthey, Team Felbermayr-Proton, Dempsey-Proton Racing
Starts	64
Wins	9
Poles	7
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	1st in 2015
Championship titles
2007; 2009; 2010; 2015	International GT Open; Le Mans Series (GT2 class); Le Mans Series (GT2 class); World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2007 -
Teams	IMSA Performance Matmut; Team Felbermayr-Proton; Porsche AG Team Manthey
Best finish	11th (2010)
Class wins	3 (2007, 2010, 2013)

Richard Lietz (born 17 December 1983 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs) is an Austrian professional racing driver and a Porsche Factory driver. He has competed in such series as American Le Mans Series, Formula 3 Euro Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series. He is also a multiple race-winner in Porsche Supercup. Lietz was overall series champion in the 2007 International GT Open season with Swiss driver Joël Camathias. He has won the GT2 class of the Le Mans Series twice, alongside German driver Marc Lieb in both in the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Lietz won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT division driving a Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-drivers Andy Lally, Rene Rast and team owner John Potter. He will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Team Felbermayr-Proton. In 2015 he was crowned World Endurance Champion for GT drivers. Winning the title in a factory Manthey Porsche.[1]

Racing record

Partial 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
2004	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA	ESP	MON	GER	USA	USA	FRA	GBR	GER 8	HUN 7	BEL 12	ITA 9	NC‡	0‡
2005	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	ITA 6	ESP 8	MON 5	GER 8	USA 5	USA 7	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 5	HUN 6	ITA 21	BEL 6	5th	130
2006	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR 8	ITA 11	GER 2	ESP 22	MON 1	GBR 3	USA Ret	USA 4	FRA 2	GER 1	HUN 4	ITA 5	3rd	157

‡ Not eligible for points.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	320	15th	1st
2008	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	26	DNF	DNF
2009	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	24	DNF	DNF
2010	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	338	11th	1st
2011	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	312	16th	4th
2012	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	184	DNF	DNF
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	315	15th	1st
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	Marco Holzer Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	337	15th	3rd
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	Michael Christensen Jörg Bergmeister	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	327	30th	5th
2016	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Michael Christensen Philipp Eng	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	329	31st	8th
2017	Porsche GT Team	Frédéric Makowiecki Patrick Pilet	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	339	20th	4th
2018	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	343	16th	2nd
2019	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	342	21st	2nd
2020	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Pro	335	31st	5th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Team Felbermayr-Proton	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SEB 2	SPA 1	LMS Ret	SIL 3	SÃO 3	BHR 3	FUJ 1	SHA 2		39th	5.5
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 4	SPA 5	LMS 1	SÃO 4	COA 4	FUJ 4	SHA 6	BHR 4		4th	123
2014	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 1	SPA	LMS 2	COA	FUJ 4	SHA 2	BHR 4	SÃO 6		3rd	111
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 5	NÜR 1	COA 1	FUJ 4	SHA 1	BHR 5		1st	145
2016	Dempsey-Proton Racing	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 9	SPA 4	LMS 6	NÜR 6	MEX 6	COA 6	FUJ 7	SHA 6	BHR 7	8th	74
2017	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 3	SPA 5	LMS 3	NÜR 2	MEX 3	COA 6	FUJ 2	SHA 2	BHR 4	2nd	145
2018–19	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SPA 4	LMS 2	SIL DSQ	FUJ 5	SHA 2	SEB 1	SPA 8	LMS 2		3rd	131
2019–20	Porsche GT Team	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SIL 1	FUJ 6	SHA 3	BHR 5	COA 8	SPA 5	LMS 9	BHR 2		7th	111

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2014	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 1	SEB 9	LBH 4	LGA 9	WGL 5	MOS 5	IMS 10	ELK 10	VIR	COA	PET	15th	210
2015	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY	SEB 5	LBH 8	LGA	WGL	MOS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 1		14th	87
2016	Porsche North America	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 10	29th	22
2017	Porsche GT Team	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 6	SEB 8	LBH	COA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET	21st	48
2021	WeatherTech Racing	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	DAY 6	SEB	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	LBH	PET		6th*	280*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2020	Proton Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	LEC 7	SPA 4	LEC DNS	MNZ 5	ALG 4	6th	47

References

"Champion portrait Richard Lietz". Porsche Motorsport.

External links

Official website
Richard Lietz career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Michele Bartyan	International GT Open Champion 2007 With: Joël Camathias	Succeeded by Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi
Preceded by Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander	FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers 2015	Succeeded by Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen

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[1] "Champion portrait Richard Lietz". Porsche Motorsport.

Winners of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring
Five-time	Timo Bernhard Pedro Lamy Marcel Tiemann
Four-time	Marc Duez Romain Dumas Marc Lieb Fritz Müller Peter Zakowski
Three-time	Herbert Hechler Klaus Ludwig Hans-Joachim Stuck Markus Winkelhock
Two-time	Uwe Alzen Michael Bartels Axel Felder Dieter Gartmann Christopher Haase Altfrid Heger Frank Katthöfer Lucas Luhr Christopher Mies Jörg Müller Klaus Niedzwiedz Gerold Pankl Roberto Ravaglia Sabine Schmitz Johannes Scheid Bernd Schneider Frank Stippler Hans-Jürgen Tiemann Winfried Vogt Joachim Winkelhock
One-time	Basseng Bleekemolen Bovensiepen Bröhling Burgstaller Catsburg Cecotto Christodoulou Danner Azevedo De Phillippi Dören Döring Edwards Eng Engel Farfus Faubel Geschwendtner Giroix Hahne Hammelmann Holup Hohenzollern Huisman Joisten Kaffer Kelleners Konrad Kummle Lauda Lechner Lietz Makowiecki Mamerow Martin Mayländer Mauer Menzel Metzger D. Müller N. Müller Nissen Oberndorfer Oestreich Pilet Pirro Priaulx Quirin Rast Rensing Reuter Rockenfeller Rosterg Said Sandström Scheider Schickentanz Schmickler Schneider Selzer Sims Soper Tandy Thiim van der Linde D. Vanthoor L. Vanthoor Vervisch Walterscheid-Müller Widmann Wirdheim Wlazik Wolf Yelloly

FIA World Endurance Championship champions
World Endurance Drivers' Championship	2012 André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler 2013 Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval 2014 Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi 2015 Timo Bernhard Mark Webber Brendon Hartley 2016 Marc Lieb Romain Dumas Neel Jani 2017 Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber 2018–19 Sébastien Buemi Fernando Alonso Kazuki Nakajima
World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship	2013 Gianmaria Bruni 2014 Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander 2015 Richard Lietz 2016 Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen 2017 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi 2018–19 Michael Christensen Kévin Estre
List of champions