Cooper MacNeil

Cooper MacNeil
MacNeil in 2014
Nationality	American
Born	(1992-09-07) September 7, 1992 (age 33) Hinsdale, Illinois
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship career
Debut season	2009
Current team	WeatherTech Racing / Proton Competition
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	79
Former teams	Alex Job Racing [1] Riley Motorsports [2]
Championship titles
2012-2013	ALMS  – GTC class

Cooper Ian MacNeil ^[3] (born September 7, 1992 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a retired professional American racecar driver. He most recently competed in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship driving the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 with co-drivers Dani Juncadella, Maro Engel, and Jules Gounon. He is son of WeatherTech owner and car collector David MacNeil. Cooper has won the 24 Hours of Daytona, Petit Le Mans three times, 12 hours of Sebring twice, and has been on the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (2x third place, 1x second place). He has also won the SCCA Runoffs and is a 4 time Ferrari Challenge Champion (2018,2019,2020,2021).

2010

Cooper won the National SCCA Touring 2 Points Championship and finished 2nd Place in the SCCA Runoffs at Road America.

2011

Cooper competed in his first 24 Hours of Daytona. He captured his first win in Ferrari Challenge at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as well as his first win in IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge at Montreal.

2012

Alex Job Racing racing with a full ride with teammate Leh Keen. During the 12 Hours of Sebring Leh and his teammates led a strong battle throughout the race. Encountered minor hiccups and climbed one spot to a second-place finish. At Long Beach consistent podium battle. Lost lead half way through on pit stop and never regained the top position. Leh won pole at Lime Rock Park. Cooper started the Porsche and keeps team in top three before handing car to Leh who, despite several on-track run ins, brings the car home in first place under caution. Leh qualified car in third at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Cooper MacNeil starts car and has excellent run, handing car over to Cooper in the GTC lead. Leh dices with #66 Porsche and #11 Porsche before finishing second. Leh and Cooper struggle with brake issues early at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and finishing fourth. Cooper started car in second at Baltimore and hands off to Leh still running second. Leh lead briefly, but finished second. Cooper and Leh ran in top three for duration of VIR race, leading multiple times. Leh took the lead on final lap when #11 JDX car must pit for fuel. The win seals GTC driver championship for Cooper and team championship for Alex Job Racing. As for in the Rolex Sports Car Series Leh and Andrew finished eighth in GT points. Four third-place finishes, including Rolex 24 At Daytona and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Retirement

MacNeil retired from racing after the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona to focus on running WeatherTech. ^[4]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2012	American Le Mans Series - GTC	Alex Job Racing	10	3	0	0	7	161	1st
2013	American Le Mans Series - GTC	Alex Job Racing	10	2	0	0	6	148	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	Larbre Compétition	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	11th
2014	United SportsCar Championship - GTD	Alex Job Racing	11	0	0	0	1	295	3rd
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro	Prospeed Competition	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
2015	United SportsCar Championship - GTD	Alex Job Racing	10	0	0	0	1	262	7th
2016	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD	Alex Job Racing	8	0	0	0	0	190	12th
2017	IMSA Sportscar Championship - GTD	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	12	1	0	0	1	254	11th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	Scuderia Corsa	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
2018	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD	Scuderia Corsa	11	1	0	0	4	295	4th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	JMW Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
2019	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD	Scuderia Corsa	11	0	0	0	4	246	5th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	WeatherTech Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
2020	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD	Scuderia Corsa	9	1	0	0	2	206	14th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro	WeatherTech Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2021	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTLM	WeatherTech Racing	10	3	0	0	8	3356	3rd
	European Le Mans Series – LMGTE		5	0	0	0	0	38	11th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2022	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD Pro	WeatherTech Racing	6	0	0	0	1	1701	7th
	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD		3	0	0	0	0	756	32nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am		1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
2023	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD Pro	WeatherTech Racing	1	1	0	0	1	385	21st

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year	Track	Car	Engine	Class	Finish	Start	Status
2009	Road America	Mini Cooper S	BMW	Touring 3	6	10	Running
2010	Road America	BMW M3	BMW	Touring 2	2	8	Running
2012	Road America	Ford Mustang GT	Ford	Touring 2	DNS	6	Retired
2015	Daytona	BMW M3	BMW	Touring 2	2	2	Running
2019	Virginia International Raceway	Porsche Carrera S 997.2	Porsche	Touring 2	1	1	Running

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Rank	Points	Ref
2011	Mitchum Motorsports	GT	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.8L Flat-6	DAY 30	HOM	BAR	VIR	LIM	WGI	ROA	LAG	NJ	WGI	MON	LEX		57th	16	[5]
2012	Alex Job Racing	GT	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.8L Flat-6	DAY 17	BAR	HOM	NJ	DET	LEX	ELK	WGI	IMS	WGI	MON	LGA	LIM	68th	16	[6]
2013	Alex Job Racing	GT	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 6	COA	BAR	ATL	DET	MOH	WAT	IMS	ELK	KAN	LAG	LRP		66th	25	[7]

Complete American Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points	Ref
2012	Alex Job Racing	GTC	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	SEB 2	LBH 2	LAG 4	LIM 1	MOS 2	LEX 4	ROA 1	BAL 2	VIR 1	PET 5†	1st	161	[8]
2013	Alex Job Racing	GTC	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	SEB 1	LBH 4	LAG 3	LIM 5†	MOS 1	ROA 2	BAL 2	COA 6	VIR 2	PET 4	1st	148	[9]

^† Did not finish the race but was classified as his car completed more than 70% of the overall winner's race distance.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	Larbre Compétition	Manuel Rodrigues Philippe Dumas	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Am	268	41st	11th
2014	Prospeed Competition	Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	319	33rd	5th
2017	Scuderia Corsa	Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	331	29th	3rd
2018	JMW Motorsport	Liam Griffin Jeff Segal	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	332	30th	5th
2019	WeatherTech Racing	Robert Smith Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	333	33rd	3rd
2020	WeatherTech Racing	Jeff Segal Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	185	DNF	DNF
2021	WeatherTech Racing	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Pro	139	DNF	DNF
2022	WeatherTech Racing	Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Am	343	35th	2nd
Sources: [10] [11]

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points	Ref
2014	Alex Job Racing	GTD	Porsche 911 GT America	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 8	SEB 4	LGA 4	DET 5	WGL 12	MOS 5	IND 5	ELK 2	VIR 5	COA 5	PET 8		3rd	295	[12]
2015	Alex Job Racing	GTD	Porsche 911 GT America	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 2	SEB 7	LGA 7	DET 4	WGL 5	LIM 7	ELK 7	VIR 6	COA 9	PET 8			7th	262	[13]
2016	Alex Job Racing	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	DAY 13	SEB 5	LGA 7	DET 7	WGL 5	MOS 7	LIM 9	ELK 11					12th	190	[14]
2017	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 V8	DAY 21	SEB 21	LBH 1	COA 6	DET 12	WGL 4	MOS 11	LIM 10					11th	254	[15]
			Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6									ELK 9	VIR 6	LGA 6	PET 17
2018	Scuderia Corsa	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8	DAY 10	SEB 2	MOH 8	DET 5	WGL 7	MOS 8	LIM 3	ELK 3	VIR 4	LGA 8	PET 1		4th	295	[16]
2019	Scuderia Corsa	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8	DAY 23	SEB 3	MOH 7	DET 12	WGL 3	MOS 9	LIM 11	ELK 7	VIR 3	LGA 2	PET 5		5th	246	[17]
2020	Scuderia Corsa	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8	DAY 7	DAY 5	SEB 2	ELK 4	VIR 13	ATL 9	MOH	CLT	PET 1	LGA 7	SEB 4		14th	206	[18]
2021	WeatherTech Racing	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	DAY 6	SEB 1	WGL 5	WGL 3	LIM 3	ELK 1	LGA 3	LBH 3	VIR 3	PET 1			3rd	3356	[19]
2022	WeatherTech Racing	GTD Pro	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche MA1.76/MDG.G 4.0 L Flat-6	DAY 8	SEB 6											7th	1701	[20]
			Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	DAY 11	SEB 3	LBH 5	LGA 6	WGL 5	MOS 4	LIM	ELK	VIR	PET
		GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	DAY	SEB	LBH	LGA	MID	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM 7	ELK 11	VIR 6	PET	32nd	756
2023	WeatherTech Racing	GTD Pro	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	DAY 1	SEB	LBH	MON	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	IMS	PET		21st	385	[21]
Source: [10]

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2021	WeatherTech Racing	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	CAT	RBR 6	LEC 4	MNZ 9	SPA 7	ALG 5	11th	38
Source: [10]

References

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2. "Cooper MacNeil, Gunnar Jeannette confirmed in WeatherTech AMG GT3". Sportscar 365. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
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