Marcel Fässler (racing driver)

Marcel Fässler

Nationality

Swiss

Born

27 May 1976
Einsiedeln, Switzerland

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2006–
Teams	Swiss Spirit Team Oreca-Matmut Corvette Racing Audi Sport Team Joest
Best finish	1st (2011, 2012, 2014)
Class wins	3 (2011, 2012, 2014)

Marcel Fässler (born 27 May 1976) is a Swiss professional racing driver. He has competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship as part of Audi Sport Team Joest with co-drivers André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer since 2010, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (2011, 2012, and 2014) and capturing the World Endurance Drivers' Championship in 2012.

Professional career

Touring car racing

Born in Einsiedeln, Fässler began competing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Mercedes-Benz when it resumed in 2000. He finished 4th with no wins in 2000, 4th with one win in 2001 and in 2002 and 3rd with one win in 2003, all four seasons with a Mercedes-Benz CLK. He moved to Opel and an Opel Vectra GTS V8 for 2004 and 2005, where he finished 9th and 12th with no wins after which the brand retired from the DTM.

Marcel also drove the F1 Mercedes-Benz safety car for one event in Canada, while regular driver Bernd Mayländer was off due to an injury. He was on track for three laps after a crash involving Williams' Juan Pablo Montoya and Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello.

Sports car racing

Fässler switched to sports cars in 2006, finishing second at the Spa 24 Hours in a Phoenix Aston Martin DBR9 and collecting two overall podiums at the Le Mans Series for Swiss Spirit. In 2007, he returned to open-wheel racing for A1 Team Switzerland in the 6th round of the A1 Grand Prix series held in Taupo, New Zealand, and in the 9th round at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico. He also won the Spa 24 Hours on a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R for Phoenix Carsport.

For 2008, Fässler joined the team for the full FIA GT Championship season. Sharing a GT1 class Corvette with Jean-Denis Délétraz, he won two races, finished 7th in the standings and helped the team finish 2nd at the teams championship. The same year he finished 2nd at the American Le Mans Series Road America race on a works Audi R10 TDI for Audi Sport North America. LMP1 team Sebah hired Fässler for the 2009 Le Mans Series season,^[1] having a 2nd-place finish as best result. In addition, he and Joël Camathias were crowned International GT Open overall and Super GT class champions in a Trottet-fielded Ferrari F430. He also retired at the 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a works GT1 class Corvette and finished 4th in the GT2 class of the petit Le Mans, also for Corvette Racing.

Audi works team Joest hired Fässler to drive the Audi R15 TDI plus at three 2010 races: Spa (12th), Le Mans (2nd) and Petit Le Mans (6th). He also retired at the 24 Hours of Spa running a Phoenix Audi R8 LMS. In 2016 Marcel re-joined Corvette Racing for the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and won the GTLM Class in the #4 Corvette C7.R with regular season drivers Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner by the smallest ever margin of victory 0.034 seconds.

Racing record

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters 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	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2000	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 2	OSC 1 9	OSC 2 3	NOR 1 13	NOR 2 7	SAC 1 10	SAC 2 4	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 3	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 NC	OSC 2 12	NÜR 1 4	NÜR 2 2	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 Ret			4th	116
2001	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 7	HOC CR 2	NÜR QR 8	NÜR CR 5	OSC QR 1	OSC CR 1	SAC QR 6	SAC CR 9	NOR QR 4	NOR CR Ret	LAU QR 2	LAU CR 8	NÜR QR 7	NÜR CR Ret	A1R QR 7	A1R CR 6	ZAN QR 6	ZAN CR 5	HOC QR Ret	HOC CR 5	4th	76
2002	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 6	HOC CR Ret	ZOL QR 10	ZOL CR 9	DON QR 4	DON CR 6	SAC QR 9	SAC CR 4	NOR QR Ret	NOR CR DNS	LAU QR 6	LAU CR 3	NÜR QR 4	NÜR CR 4	A1R QR 10	A1R CR 1	ZAN QR 1	ZAN CR 3	HOC QR Ret	HOC CR 5	4th	30
2003	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes CLK 2003	HOC 2	ADR 4	NÜR 2	LAU 10	NOR 2	DON 4	NÜR 5	A1R 1	ZAN 6	HOC 3											3rd	57
2004	OPC Team Phoenix	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2004	HOC Ret	EST 20†	ADR Ret	LAU 7	NOR Ret	SHA¹ 14†	NÜR 4	OSC 8	ZAN 10	BRN 4	HOC Ret										9th	13
2005	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2005	HOC 9	LAU 13	SPA 5	BRN 15	OSC 8	NOR Ret	NÜR 13	ZAN 5	LAU Ret	IST 10	HOC 6										12th	12

† — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

¹ - Shanghai was a non-championship round.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Swiss Spirit	Harold Primat Philipp Peter	Courage LC70-Judd	LMP1	132	DNF	DNF
2007	Swiss Spirit	Jean-Denis Délétraz Iradj Alexander	Lola B07/18-Audi	LMP1	62	DNF	DNF
2008	Team Oreca-Matmut	Olivier Panis Simon Pagenaud	Courage-Oreca LC70-Judd	LMP1	147	DNF	DNF
2009	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	311	DNF	DNF
2010	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R15 TDI plus	LMP1	396	2nd	2nd
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 TDI	LMP1	355	1st	1st
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	378	1st	1st
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	338	5th	5th
2014	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1-H	379	1st	1st
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	393	3rd	3rd

Complete American Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2008	Audi Sport North America	LMP1	Audi R10 TDI	Audi 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	SEB	STP	LNB	UTA	LIM	MID	AME ovr:2 cls:2	MOS	DET ovr:DSQ cls:DSQ	PET	MON	19th	21
2009	Corvette Racing	GT1	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0L V8 (E85 ethanol)	M	SEB ovr:7 cls:2	STP	LNB	UTA	LIM	MID	AME	MOS				6th	26
2009	Corvette Racing	GT2	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet 6.0L V8	M									PET ovr:11 cls:4	MON		31st	20
2010	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R15 TDI plus	Audi 5.5L Turbo V10 (Diesel)	M	SEB	LNB	MON	UTA	LIM	MID	AME	MOS	PET ovr:6 cls:5			NC	-
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 TDI	Audi 3.7L Turbo V6 (Diesel)	M	SEB	LNB	LIM	MOS	MID	AME	BAL	MON	PET ovr:Ret cls:Ret			NC	-
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	P1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi 3.7L Turbo V6 (Diesel)	M	SEB ovr:1 cls:1	LNB	MON	LIM	MOS	AME	BAL	COTA	VIR	PET		NC	-

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	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
2016	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6 (Hybrid)	SIL DSQ	SPA	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	11th*	1*

^* Season still in progress.

References

↑ Codling, Stuart (2013). Art of the Le Mans Race Car: 90 Years of Speed. Motorbooks. p. 230. ISBN 9780760344378. Retrieved 11 February 2016.

External links

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Official website
Marcel Fässler career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi	International GT Open champion 2009 with Joël Camathias	Succeeded by Álvaro Barba Pierre Kaffer
Preceded by Bernd Mayländer	F1 Safety Car Driver 2001 Canadian Grand Prix	Succeeded by Bernd Mayländer
Preceded by Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Mike Rockenfeller	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2011–2012 with: Benoît Tréluyer André Lotterer	Succeeded by Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval
Preceded by None	FIA World Endurance Champion 2012 with: André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	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: André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer	Succeeded by Earl Bamber Nico Hülkenberg Nick Tandy

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

Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring

Six-time	Tom Kristensen

Five-time	Rinaldo Capello

Four-time	Frank Biela Allan McNish

Three-time	Mario Andretti Marco Werner

Two-time	Bob Akin Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson JJ Lehto Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Hans-Joachim Stuck Eric van de Poele Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters

One-time	Aïello Alboreto Baker Baldi Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bonnier Bourdais Gary Brabham Brown Castellotti Collard Collins Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Derani Dumas Duval Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Heyer Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Lapierre Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul, Jr. Paul, Sr. Pescatori Peter Pruett Rahal Robinson Rojas Ruby Scarfiotti H. Sharp S. Sharp Siffert Surtees Taylor Theys Tréluyer Vaccarella Van Overbeek Wollek Woods Wurz

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