Joël Camathias

Joël Camathias
Joël Camathias
	Camathias' Proton Porsche in 2017
Nationality	Swiss
Born	9 February 1981 (age 45); Lugano, Switzerland
Categorisation	FIA Gold (until 2012); FIA Silver (2013–)

Joël Camathias (born 9 February 1981) is a Swiss race car driver born in Lugano. In 2001, he raced in the International Formula 3000 championship and in 2002 in the European F3000 series. In 2003, he made seven starts in the American Champ Car series for Dale Coyne Racing, his best finish a ninth in his debut at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Having previously driven sports cars part-time, he then returned to Europe to drive in the Le Mans Series in 2004 and the FIA GT Championship in 2005 and 2006. He also won the GT2 Class of the 2006 Le Mans Series season with Marc Lieb driving a Porsche 911 for Autorlando Sport.

Swiss

Born9 February 1981 (age 45)

Lugano, Switzerland

FIA Gold (until 2012)

FIA Silver (2013–)^[1]

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Camathias is the great-nephew of the late Florian Camathias, a solo motorcycle and sidecar racer, and his father Romeo was a car racer.^[2]

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2001	KTR	INT 5	IMO 15	CAT 18	A1R Ret	MON Ret	NUR 18	MAG 17	SIL 17	HOC 9	HUN 13	SPA 15	MNZ 15	17th	2
Sources:^[3]^[4]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2012	JWA-Avila	Paul Daniels Markus Palttala	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	290	33rd	8th
2016	KCMG	Wolf Henzler Christian Ried	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	300	41st	10th
Sources:^[3]^[6]

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