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Peter Dumbreck

Peter Dumbreck
Dumbreck at Fuji Speedway in 2012
Nationality	British
Born	(1973-10-13) 13 October 1973 (age 50) Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Racing licence	FIA Gold
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1999, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012–2013
Teams	AMG Mercedes Spyker Squadron JRM
Best finish	6th (2012)
Class wins	0

Peter James Dumbreck (born 13 October 1973) is a British professional racing driver from Scotland.

Biography[edit]

Born in Kirkcaldy, Dumbreck dominated the 1994 British Formula Vauxhall Junior championship and followed this in 1996 with a similarly strong performance when he won ten races to take the full Formula Vauxhall Championship.

After finishing third in British Formula 3 in 1997, he took the 1998 Japanese Formula 3 title with a record-breaking eight wins out of ten races. The climax of Dumbreck's 1998 season was victory at the Macau Grand Prix – a race that traditionally attracts entries from all the world's top flight Formula 3 drivers.

This dominant outing in Japanese Formula 3 enabled Dumbreck to move up to the Formula Nippon championship for the 1999 season.^[1] Driving for Team LeyJun, his performances were good enough for seventh in the championship (including both a second place finish and a pole position in Round 4 at Fuji) as well as scoring all of the team's points for the season.

In that same year, Dumbreck escaped uninjured from a violent crash during the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans race when his No. 5 Mercedes-Benz CLR somersaulted into the woods at about 300 km/h (190 mph).^[2] An aerodynamic design flaw caused the front of the car to rise and then flip without any external contact; Mark Webber had already suffered similar crashes in the No. 4 car during the Thursday night practice and the Saturday morning warm-up. The remaining No. 6 car was retired immediately, and the team withdrew from all other planned entries in endurance racing and the American Le Mans Series.

When the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) returned from the 2000 season onwards, Dumbreck continued to race for Mercedes-Benz in the DTM touring car championship until 2002. A third place in the final standings of the 2001 season was his best result. He then moved to the Opel team in 2003 and 2004 where he suffered another major accident at Zandvoort track in 2004.^[3][4]

In 2005 Dumbreck returned to Japanese Super GT (JGTC/Super GT) in the midst of the season, driving a Toyota which became Lexus from 2006 to 2008. His first victory for Lexus came at Fuji on 4 May 2006.^[5]

In 2006, he returned to Le Mans and drove the No. 85 Spyker Spyder for Spyker Squadron in the GT2 class, but that car retired with only 40 laps completed resulting in 47th finish overall. The same result occurred two years later 52nd overall only 43 laps completed. In 2010, Dumbreck returned again with Spyker and finally finished the race 27th overall, a classified finisher, and ninth place in GT2.

In 2015, he won third place overall at the 43rd ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hour Endurance Race with Falken Motorsports.

On 12 May 2017 he broke the lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife with the full electric Supercar NIO EP9 by Chinese manufacturer NIO with a 6:45.90. It was the first time a full electric car held the lap record at the Nordschleife.^[6]

Racing record[edit]

Complete British Formula 3 results[edit]

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

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results[edit]

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

24 Hours of Le Mans results[edit]

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1999	AMG-Mercedes	Christophe Bouchut Nick Heidfeld	Mercedes-Benz CLR	LMGTP	75	DNF	DNF
2006	Spyker Squadron b.v.	Donny Crevels Tom Coronel	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	40	DNF	DNF
2008	Snoras Spyker Squadron	Ralf Kelleners Alexey Vasilyev	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	GT2	43	DNF	DNF
2010	Spyker Squadron	Tom Coronel Jeroen Bleekemolen	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	GT2	280	27th	9th
2012	JRM	David Brabham Karun Chandhok	HPD ARX-03a	LMP1	357	6th	6th
2013	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Stefan Mücke	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	LMGTE Pro	314	17th	3rd

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results[edit]

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

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

¹ – A non-championship one-off race was held in 2004, in Shanghai, China.

Complete Porsche Supercup results[edit]

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

‡ – Not eligible for points for entering as a guest driver.

Complete JGTC/Super GT results[edit]

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

Complete Formula Nippon results[edit]

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

Complete GT1 World Championship results[edit]

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[edit]

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results[edit]

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

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Peter Dumbreck.

• Official website
• (in German) DTM career
• Peter Dumbreck
• [1] Archived 14 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• Motorsport.com: Magazine channel
• Japanese (F) Race Results 1998
• SUPERGT.net | 2006 Team Information
• SUPERGT.net | 2006 Round3 Race Review
• [2]