Patrick Long

Nationality

American

Born

July 28, 1981 (age 35)
Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Pirelli World Challenge, FIA World Endurance Championship career

Debut season

2016

Current team

Wright Motorsports (PWC), Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing (WEC)

Car no.

58 (PWC), 88 (WEC)

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

2004–2016

Teams

White Lightning Racing, Petersen Motorsports, Flying Lizard Motorsports, IMSA Performance, Dempsey-Del Piero Racing, Dempsey Proton Racing, Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing

Best finish

1st

Class wins

2 (2004, 2007)

Monster Energy NASCAR 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.

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. In 2015, Patrick led the Dempsey-Proton team to success in the FIA World Endurance Championship, co-driving with Marco Seefried and Patrick Dempsey, notably scoring a 2nd-place finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and helping secure Dempsey's first professional racing victory in the GTE-AM class at Fuji, in Japan.

For 2016, he raced twin programs: again in the FIA WEC in #88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR with Khaled Al-Qubaisi and David Heinemeier Hansson, as well as a full-season attack on the Pirelli World Challenge with Wright Motorsports.

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. 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. After the questionable penalty, Long finished 23rd after having started on the pole.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.

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