Patrick Long

Patrick Long
Nationality	American
Born	July 28, 1981 Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Pirelli World Challenge career
Debut season	2016
Current team	EFFORT Racing
Car no.	31
Starts	0
Wins	0
Poles	0
Championship titles
2005, 2009, 2010, 2011	ALMS GT2 Class Champion ('05, '09, '10), Pirelli World Challenge ('11)
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2004–2015
Teams	White Lightning Racing, Petersen Motorsports, Flying Lizard Motorsports, IMSA Performance, Dempsey-Del Piero Racing
Best finish	1st
Class wins	2 (2004, 2007)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Car no., team	No. 30 (Inception Motorsports)
2012 position	58th
Best finish	58th (2012)
First race	2012 Finger Lakes 355 (Watkins Glen)
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	104th (2010)
First race	2010 Bucyrus 200 (Road America)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of August 12, 2012.

Patrick Long (born July 28, 1981) is a professional racing driver, one of 10 Porsche factory racing drivers, and the only American to hold that distinction.

Racing career

Following a successful career in karts and the open wheel ladder system, Thousand Oaks-born Long caught the eye of Red Bull, and was included in the inaugural Red Bull Formula 1 Driver Search. During that test, he came to the attention of Porsche, for whom he has driven — first as a Junior driver, then as a Factory driver, since 2003. Patrick has had notable success racing for Porsche, including class wins at all four sportscar "classics" - the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2005, 2007), the Rolex 24 At Daytona (2009), Petit Le Mans (2005, 2006, 2007) and the Mobil One 12 Hours of Sebring (2005). Patrick is a three-time American Le Mans Series driver's champion, winning the GT2/GT class in 2005, 2009 and 2010, and won the Pirelli World Challenge Driver's Championship in 2011. Additionally, he was part of the driving trio that claimed the first international competition victory for the innovative Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid, in the 2010 1000 km of Zhuhai, China. From 2006 to 2008, Patrick drove for the legendary Penske Racing team in a Porsche RS Spyder, culminating in an LMP2 class victory and second place overall at the 2008 Petit Le Mans.

He has made two starts in the Australian V8 Supercar Series — in 2010 for Garry Rogers Motorsport Fujitsu Racing where he finished 4th and 11th in the dual races at the Gold Coast, and in 2011 for Walkinshaw Bundaberg Racing where he finished 5th and 17th in dual races.

Patrick has made starts in various NASCAR racing series, including one start in the Sprint Cup (Watkins Glen, 2012) and Nationwide Series (2010, Road America.) In a K&N Pro Series East race on June 6, 2009, Long was leading the race at Watkins Glen on the last lap before being passed in the final turn.^[1] Just two weeks later, Long was in second place on the last lap of the K&N Pro Series West race at Infineon Raceway when he made contact with the leader (Joey Logano) who spun out. Although Long took the checkered flag first, he was stripped of the win by NASCAR due to contact and placed at the tail end of the lead lap.^[2] After the questionable penalty, Long finished 23rd after having started on the pole.^[3]Later that season he took a convincing first victory in Salt Lake City. In 2010, Long won the NASCAR West event at Portland and was leading at Tooele when a flat tire ended his day with three laps remaining. He finished 14th at the Elkhart Lake Nationwide race after starting 6th leading two laps in a D'Hondt-Humphrey Toyota. He has one ARCA start where he took pole position and victory at NJMP after a race long scrap with Parker Kligerman.

His younger brother, Kevin "Spanky" Long, is a professional skateboarder.

Career results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2004	White Lightning Racing	Jörg Bergmeister Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	327	10th	1st
2005	Petersen Motorsports White Lightning Racing	Jörg Bergmeister Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	331	11th	2nd
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Seth Neiman	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	309	18th	4th
2007	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	320	15th	1st
2008	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	26	DNF	DNF
2009	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	265	DNF	DNF
2010	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	321	17th	5th
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Lucas Luhr	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	310	18th	6th
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	114	DNF	DNF
2013	Dempsey Del Piero-Proton	Patrick Dempsey Joe Foster	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	305	28th	4th
2014	Dempsey Racing-Proton	Patrick Dempsey Joe Foster	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	329	24th	5th
2015	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Patrick Dempsey Marco Seefried	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	330	22nd	2nd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2015	Dempsey Racing-Proton	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 6	SPA 5	LMS 2	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	3rd *	54 *

* Season still in progress.

V8 Supercar results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	Final Pos	Points
2010	Garry Rogers Motorsport	YMC R1	YMC R2	BHR R3	BHR R4	ADE R5	ADE R6	HAM R7	HAM R8	QLD R9	QLD R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HDV R13	HDV R14	TOW R15	TOW R16	PHI R17	BAT R18	SUR R19 4	SUR R20 11	SYM R21	SYM R22	SAN R23	SAN R24	SYD R25	SYD R26			NC	0 +
2011	Walkinshaw Racing	YMC R1	YMC R2	ADE R3	ADE R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	QLD R18	PHI R19	BAT R20	SUR R21 5	SUR R22 15	SYM R23	SYM R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	SYD R27	SYD R28	58th	171

+ 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.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts
2012	Inception Motorsports	30	Toyota	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	KAN	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	KEN	DAY	NHA	IND	POC	GLN 42	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	TAL	CLT	KAN	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	58th	2

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts
2010	D'Hondt Humphrey Motorsports	90	Toyota	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	NSH	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	NSH	KEN	ROA 14	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	GTY	TEX	PHO	HOM	47th	866

* Season still in progress

References

1. Courchesne, Shawn (6 June 2009). "Last Lap Pass At Watkins Glen Gives Ryan Truex First Camping World East Victory". courant.com. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
2. Pockrass, Bob (20 June 2009). "Joey Logano punted out of lead on last lap of Sonoma's Camping World West race". SceneDaily.com. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
3. "Bennett Lane Winery 200 Presented by Supercuts Race Results". RacingWest. Retrieved 14 October 2011.

External links

• Official website
• Patrick Long driver statistics at Racing-Reference