Leutwiler Nicolas

Nicolas Leutwiler

## **Overall results**

**Nicolas Leutwiler** (born 2 November 1960 in Fribourg) is a Swiss racing driver.

## Career

Nicolas Leutwiler began his motorsport career in the 1980s. In 1988, he drove one season in the Porsche Porsche 944 Turbo Cup one-make cup and finished seventh in the overall standings.

The following year, he competed in the Lights class of the IMSA GTP series. At the beginning of the season he competed for the Canadian team *Bieri* Racing with a Tiga GT286 and from the middle of the year he drove a Spice SE86CL for the US team *Huffaker Racing*. He finished eighth in the season standings and won the 1989 IMSA Rookie of the Year award.

In 1990 he competed again in Europe in the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. He finished the season with a victory in the race on the AVUS and 10th place overall.  In the same year, he competed with Georg Memminger in a Porsche 911 Carrera (Type 964) in the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and finished ninth.

In 1993 and 1994 he drove a Porsche 12 CS at the Bathurst 968 Hours. In his second year, he finished the race in second place with his fellow drivers. In 1994, he finished sixth in the overall standings of the *Australian Super Production Car Championship*.

In 2002, after a break of several years, he drove a Porsche 911 GT3 (Type 996) to fourth place overall and third place in the A24 classification at the 7-hour race at the Nürburgring together with Georg Silbermayr and Dieter Schornstein.

In 2005 he drove a Porsche 911 GT3 RS (Type 996) for the *JP Racing* team in three races in the GT2 classification of the Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES). In 2014 he competed again with a Morgan LMP2 and in 2016 with an Oreca 03 R in the racing series now called European Le Mans Series (ELMS). In 2016, he achieved a tenth place in the overall standings.

In 2012 and 2013, Leutwiler competed in the *Speed EuroSeries* for CN prototype racing sports cars. In the first year he finished eleventh in the overall standings and in the second year he won the European Championship title with a Ligier JS53 for the *Pegasus Racing* team.

In the 2015/16 season, he competed for Team *Race Performance* in the Asian Le Mans Series. After two race wins, a second and a third place with an Oreca 03 R, he won the championship title.  At the same time, he competed in the 2015 KTM X-BOW BATTLE KTM X-BOW BATTLE one-make cup and won the championship.

In 2017, he returned to GT motorsport and competed in the GT2017 European Series from 2019 to 4 with a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR. He achieved his best result in the racing series, a seventh place in the Pro-Am classification, in 2017 with the *TFT Racing/Porsche Zentrum Oberer Zürichsee* team in the French GT4 European Series Southern Cup.

In 2019, he drove a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991) in the *GT Open Cup*.  A year later, he competed in the International GT Open with a Porsche 911 GT3-R and finished third in the overall standings. At the same time, he competed in the *Michelin Le Mans Cup* and finished fourth at the end of the season.

Nicolas Leutwiler competed twice in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with LMP2 race cars. At the first start in 2014 he finished 18th and in 2016 he finished the race in 44th place.