Gunnar Jeannette
| Gunnar Jeannette | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Born |
May 5, 1982 West Palm Beach, FL |
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FIA World Endurance Championship Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge career |
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| Current team |
Luxury Racing Multimatic Motorsports |
| Previous series | |
| American Le Mans Series Rolex Sports Car Series |
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| Championship titles | |
| 2011 | ALMS LMPC Championship |
Gunnar Jeannette (born May 5, 1982 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American racing driver who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge for Luxury Racing and Multimatic Motorsports, respectively. He won the 2011 American Le Mans Series season LMPC Drivers' Championship alongside Ricardo González and Eric Lux and is the youngest-ever driver to finish the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Jeannette started racing, driving in Historic Sports Car racing at the age of 16. He made the jump to the professional ranks less than one year later.
Jeannette made his American Le Mans Series debut in 2000, scoring six top-10 finishes in seven starts in both the Prototype and GT classes. In 2002, he made his LMP900 class debut in a Panoz before moving to the factory supported JML Team Panoz squad in 2003, where he scored his best-ever overall finish of third (2nd in class) at Mosport.
For 2004, Jeannette moved back to GT2, piloting the Panoz Esperante GTLM for what turned out to be a three-year stint with two different teams. His best result was a fourth at Mosport and Petit Le Mans with co-driver Tommy Milner in 2006.
After making a handful of starts in 2008 for Corsa Motorsports, Jeannette returned to full-time ALMS competition in 2010 in the new LMPC class. Driving for his father's Green Earth Team Gunnar outfit, Jeannette became the first LMPC pole winner in series history. He went on to win four races with Elton Julian and finish 2nd in the Drivers Championship that year.
Jeannette joined CORE autosport for 2011 and continued his streak of success in LMPC, taking two wins, three pole positions and three fastest race laps en route to the LMPC Drivers Championship. He shared the honor with season-long co-driver Ricardo Gonzalez and Genoa Racing's Eric Lux, who ended up on equal points to the CORE autosport duo.
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