Brendon Hartley

Brendon Hartley
Brendon Hartley at the Silverstone Round of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	10 November 1989 Palmerston North, New Zealand
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Porsche
Car no.	17
Former teams	Murphy Prototypes
Starts	29
Championships	1 (2015)
Wins	8
Poles	8
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	1st in 2015
Finished last season	1st
Previous series
2009–11 2008–09 2008 2007 2006–07 2006 2005–06 2003–04 2002–03	Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula 3 Euro Series British Formula 3 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Toyota Racing Series Formula Ford New Zealand Formula First New Zealand
Championship titles
2007	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2012-
Teams	Porsche (2014 - ) Murphy Prototypes (2012-2014)
Best finish	2nd (2015)
Class wins	0

Brendon Hartley (born 10 November 1989) is a New Zealand professional racing driver currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Porsche in LMP1-H. On November 21, 2015, he was crowned champion alongside his team mates Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard.

Career

Hartley won the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship in 2007.

Hartley driving for Carlin Motorsport at the Croft round of the 2008 British Formula 3 season.

Hartley driving for Tech 1 Racing at the Silverstone round of the 2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Hartley driving for Ocean Racing Technology at the Monza round of the 2011 GP2 Series season.

Hartley was born in Palmerston North in a family well integrated within motorsport. His father, Bryan, had raced in many forms of motorsport, most notably Formula Atlantic. At the age of six, Hartley began his motor racing career in kart racing, following his brother, Nelson's footsteps.

Six years later, the young New Zealander competed in his first full–scale race championship, competing in the Formula First category. Up against many seasoned veterans, Hartley finished the season in seventh. In 2003, the thirteen-year-old got his first major break as he won that year's New Zealand Formula Ford Festival which resulted in him getting a drive for the following year's Formula Ford championship. In a car his brother used the previous year, he started four races and won two of them.

After a season in Formula Toyota New Zealand, Hartley moved to Europe, competing in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup (NEC). The New Zealander finished 14th and 10th in the Drivers' Championship in the Eurocup and North European Cup respectively, taking a podium position at Anderstorp in the latter. His second year in Formula Renault saw him stay in the Eurocup, but move from the NEC to the Italian championship. That year saw him take three wins in the Eurocup and three podiums in the Italian championship, and took championship title in the Eurocup.

In 2007 Hartley also made his Formula Three debut in the Masters of Formula 3 at Zolder event, finishing 4th. This resulted in a test with A1 Team New Zealand and the role of the rookie driver for the series.

In 2008, Hartley competed in the British Formula 3 Championship for Carlin Motorsport winning five times and eventually finished the championship in third. He would have placed higher up, due to a greater amount of retirements compared to that of his team-mates Jaime Alguersuari and Oliver Turvey. They had two each, while Hartley had six. He also competed in eight races in the Formula Three Euroseries for Carlin and RC Motorsport, and achieved two finishes in the points, although he was ineligible for points. In non-championship races, Hartley finished fifth at the Masters of Formula 3, and a sensational drive at the Macau Grand Prix to finish third, after crashing in the qualification race. He started 20th on the grid and recorded the fastest race lap.

He stayed with Carlin for the full F3 Euroseries in 2009,^[1] finishing eleventh despite missing two rounds due to Formula Renault 3.5 Series commitments. In that series, Hartley competed for the defending champion Tech 1 Racing team,^[2] and ended fifteenth in the championship.

He has been confirmed at Tech 1 for a full season of Formula Renault 3.5 in 2010, where he was partnered by Australian and fellow Red Bull Junior driver, Daniel Ricciardo. During the series' summer break it was announced that Hartley had been dropped from the Red Bull Junior Team.^[3] His seat was taken by British Formula 3 championship leader Jean-Éric Vergne.

Despite the loss of his Red Bull backing, Hartley made his GP2 Series début at Monza in September, replacing Vladimir Arabadzhiev at the Coloni team.^[4] He scored a point in the season finale at Yas Marina to place 27th in the championship.

For 2011, Hartley returned to Formula Renault 3.5, driving alongside Jan Charouz for the Gravity–Charouz Racing team. He also returned to GP2 for the eighth round of the series at Spa-Francorchamps, replacing Kevin Mirocha and driving alongside Johnny Cecotto Jr. in the Ocean Racing Technology team, for whom he had tested before the start of the season.^[5] He finished in fifth place in his first race with the team, and 19th in the overall championship.

Hartley began the 2012 season without a drive, but returned to Ocean for the second round of the championship in Bahrain in place of Jon Lancaster.^[6] After the two rounds in Bahrain, he was in turn replaced by Víctor Guerin.^[7] He finished 25th in the championship.

With no suitable single-seater drives available, Hartley joined the Murphy Prototypes sportscar team, which was competing in the LMP2 class in the European Le Mans Series. Following the cancellation of the second round of the ELMS championship (which would have been Hartley's début event) and the series' future in doubt, Murphy was one of several ELMS teams invited to compete as a guest entry in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, a round of the more prestigious FIA World Endurance Championship. Driving the team's Oreca 03-Nissan, Hartley finished tenth overall and third in the LMP2 class with team-mates Warren Hughes and Jody Firth. The trio teamed up again for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but retired from the race after completing 196 laps of the circuit.

Formula One

In February 2008, aged 18, Hartley got his first taste of Formula One. He was invited to perform a show run for Red Bull Racing in Riyadh. From here he performed the initial three-day shake-down test for Scuderia Toro Rosso's 2008 spec car, the STR3.

In November 2008, it was announced he would be providing cover for Mark Webber, who had broken his leg in a cycling accident, by performing testing duties alongside permanent test driver Sébastien Buemi for Red Bull in the 2008 RB4 F1 car.^[8]

For the 2009 season, Hartley was appointed as official reserve driver for both the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso teams.^[9]

However, unable to get his mandatory superlicence approved until April 2009, he was replaced in this role by retired F1 driver David Coulthard for the first races in Melbourne and Sepang.^[10] Hartley made his debut as reserve and test driver at the Spanish Grand Prix on 8 May. He is the first New Zealander to achieve F1 driver status since Mike Thackwell in 1984.^[11] He was replaced in the role by fellow Red Bull Junior driver Jaime Alguersuari for the second half of the season.^[12] However Hartley didn't return to the reserve driver role with Red Bull and Toro Rosso following Jaime Alguersuari's promotion to a race seat, preferring to focus on his F3 and Renault World Series season. David Coulthard again took over the role.

For the 2010 season, Hartley was again appointed official reserve driver for both Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. He shared the reserve driver duties with his Formula Renault 3.5 team-mate, Australian Daniel Ricciardo. The two drivers shared the duties on a race-by-race basis until round six of the championship.^[13] Following this race, Hartley's support from Red Bull was dropped, based on the fact he had not won a race in his season and a half in the championship.

On 13 September 2012, he participated in the young driver test at Magny-Cours. He drove 87 laps for AMG Mercedes F1 on the final day, setting the third quickest time behind Jules Bianchi (Ferrari) and Rodolfo González (Force India).

Mercedes (2012–2013)

He said the simulator development work and the test drive with AMG Mercedes would give him a new opportunity to get back into Formula One.^[14][15][16]

Sports prototypes

Hartley was signed to drive an Oreca 03-Nissan for Murphy Prototypes in the 2013 European Le Mans Series season.

Porsche later announced him as a factory driver of the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship.^[17]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2002–03	Formula First New Zealand		6	0	?	?	0	335	8th
2003–04	Formula Ford New Zealand		18	6	6	3	9	239	2nd
2005	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	GVI	15	3	1	2	7	807	3rd
2005–06	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	Victory Motorsport	12	1	0	0	8	711	8th
2006	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Motorsport Arena	14	0	0	1	1	151	10th
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0		14	0	0	0	0	21	13th
2006–07	Toyota Racing Series New Zealand	Mark Petch Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Red Bull Team	14	4	6	4	8	134	1st
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia		14	1	1	5	5	236	3rd
	Masters of Formula 3	ASL Mücke Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
	Macau Grand Prix Formula Three	Carlin Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	12th
2008	British F3 Championship	Carlin Motorsport	22	5	5	4	11	208	3rd
	Formula 3 Euroseries		8	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
		RC Motorsport
	Masters of Formula 3	Carlin Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	1	1	N/A	3rd
	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test Driver
2009	Formula 3 Euroseries	Carlin Motorsport	16	1	0	0	1	15	11th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	13	0	1	3	1	26	15th
	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test and reserve Driver
		Red Bull Racing
	Macau Grand Prix	Carlin	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2010	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Test and reserve Driver
		Red Bull Racing
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	11	0	0	2	1	50	10th
		P1 Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0
	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	4	0	0	0	0	1	27th
2011	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Gravity–Charouz Racing	16	0	0	2	3	95	7th
	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	4	0	0	0	0	4	19th
2012	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	4	0	0	0	0	1	25th
	Formula One	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Test Driver
2013	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	6th
	Rolex Sports Car Series	Starworks Motorsport	11	1	1	2	2	252	12th
	Formula One	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Test Driver
2014	FIA World Endurance Championship	Porsche Team	8	0	1	0	3	64.5	9th
	24 Hours of Le Mans		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2015	FIA World Endurance Championship	Porsche Team	8	4	5	0	6	166	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	2nd
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship	Porsche Team	9	4	2	0	6	134.5	4th
	24 Hours of Le Mans		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	13th

† – Hartley was ineligible to score points.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2008	R.C. Motorsport powered by Volkswagen	Dallara F308/077	Volkswagen	HOC 1	HOC 2	MUG 1	MUG 2	PAU 1	PAU 2	NOR 1	NOR 2	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 14	BRH 1	BRH 2							NC†	0†
	Carlin Motorsport	Dallara F308/055	Mercedes															CAT 1 14	CAT 2 6	BUG 1 8	BUG 2 22	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 14
2009	Carlin Motorsport	Dallara F308/074	Volkswagen	HOC 1 19	HOC 2 Ret	LAU 1 4	LAU 2 4	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 11	ZAN 1 10	ZAN 2 8	OSC 1 21	OSC 2 21	NÜR 1 22	NÜR 2 17	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 1	CAT 1	CAT 2	DIJ 1 Ret	DIJ 2 11	HOC 1	HOC 2	11th	15

† As Hartley was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2009	Tech 1 Racing	CAT SPR 12	CAT FEA 9	SPA SPR 11	SPA FEA 10	MON FEA 17	HUN SPR 17	HUN FEA 12	SIL SPR 5	SIL FEA 13	BUG SPR	BUG FEA	ALG SPR	ALG FEA	NÜR SPR 13	NÜR FEA 2	ALC SPR 15	ALC FEA 16	15th	26
2010	Tech 1 Racing	ALC 1 6	ALC 2 6	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 6	MON 1 4	BRN 1 2	BRN 2 6	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 Ret	HUN 1 4	HUN 2 9	HOC 1	HOC 2					10th	50
	P1 Motorsport														SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 15	CAT 1	CAT 2
2011	Gravity–Charouz Racing	ALC 1 21	ALC 2 Ret	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 8	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 Ret	MON 1 3	NÜR 1 15	NÜR 2 7	HUN 1 8	HUN 2 5	SIL 1 21	SIL 2 7	LEC 1 3	LEC 2 20	CAT 1 DNS	CAT 2 3	7th	95

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2010	Scuderia Coloni	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	IST FEA	IST SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR Ret	YMC FEA 9	YMC SPR 6					27th	1
2011	Ocean Racing Technology	IST FEA	IST SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA 5	SPA SPR 9	MNZ FEA 22	MNZ SPR 20							19th	4
2012	Ocean Racing Technology	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR1 FEA 10	BHR1 SPR Ret	BHR2 FEA 13	BHR2 SPR 16	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MRN FEA	MRN SPR	25th	1

Sportscars/GT results

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2012	Murphy Prototypes	Jody Firth Warren Hughes	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	196	DNF	DNF
2013	Murphy Prototypes	Karun Chandhok Mark Patterson	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	319	12th	6th
2014	Porsche Team	Timo Bernhard Mark Webber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1-H	346	NC	NC
2015	Porsche Team	Timo Bernhard Mark Webber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	394	2nd	2nd
2016	Porsche Team	Timo Bernhard Mark Webber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	346	13th	5th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Murphy Prototypes	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SEB	SPA 3	LMS Ret	SIL 9	SAO	BHR	FUJ	SHA		NC†	0
2013	Murphy Prototypes	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 7	SÃO	CTA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		NC†	0
2014	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL 3	SPA 12	LMS NC	COA 5	FUJ 3	SHA 6	BHR 3	SÃO Ret		9th	64.5
2015	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL Ret	SPA 3	LMS 2	NÜR 1	COA 1	FUJ 1	SHA 1	BHR 5		1st	166
2016	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL Ret	SPA 26	LMS 10	NÜR 1	MEX 1	COA 1	FUJ 3	SHA 1	BHR 3	4th	134.5

^† As Hartley was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Rolex Sports Car Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap. Results are overall/class)

Rolex Sports Car Series results
Year	Team	Make	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
2013	Starworks Motorsport	Riley	BMW	DP	DAY 14	TXS 13	BAR 12	ATL 10	BEL 8	LEX 10	S6H 3	IMS 4	ELK 1	KAN 6	LGA 16	LRP	12th	252

Notes

1. Noble, Jonathan (31 December 2008). "Hartley goes Euro Series with Carlin". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
2. English, Steven (2009-04-15). "Hartley joins Tech 1 for three races". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
3. Saward, Joe (20 July 2010). "Who runs Red Bull Racing?".
4. Beer, Matt (8 September 2010). "Hartley joins GP2 with Coloni". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
5. O'Leary, Jamie (25 August 2011). "Brendon Hartley makes GP2 return with Ocean at Spa". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
6. "Ocean GP2 team hopes Jon Lancaster's absence from Bahrain round is a one-off". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
7. Mallett, Thomas (2012-05-10). "Guerin replaces Hartley at Ocean Racing for Barcelona's GP2 race". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 March 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
9. "Hartley gets double role". grandprix.com. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
10. http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090724162117.shtml
11. "Hartley gains F1 superlicence". Stuff.co.nz. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
12. Beer, Matt (1 July 2009). "Alguersuari becomes Red Bull reserve". autosport.com. Haymarket. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
13. Noble, Jonathan (2010-01-26). "Ricciardo, Hartley to be Red Bull reserves". Autosport. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
14. Noble, Jonathan (2012-09-11). "Brendon Hartley 'better prepared' for Mercedes F1 chance". Autosport. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
15. Beaudoin, Sabrina (2012-09-13). "F1 young driver test: Jules Bianchi stays ahead on final day". Autosport. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
16. Beaudoin, Sabrina & Noble, Jonathan (2012-09-14). "Brendon Hartley hopes F1 test leads to more opportunities". Autosport. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
17. "Works engagement with 919 hybrid and 911 RSR". Porsche.com. Porsche. Retrieved 14 December 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Brendon Hartley on Twitter
  
• Brendon Hartley career summary at DriverDB.com