Peter Dumbreck

Peter Dumbreck
Dumbreck at Fuji Speedway in 2012
Nationality	Scottish
Born	(1973-10-13) 13 October 1973 (age 51) Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Racing licence	FIA Gold
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1999, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012–2013
Teams	AMG Mercedes Spyker Squadron JRM
Best finish	6th (2012)
Class wins	0

Peter James Dumbreck (born 13 October 1973) is a Scottish professional racing driver.

Biography

Born in Kirkcaldy, Dumbreck dominated the 1994 British Formula Vauxhall Junior championship and followed this in 1996 with a similarly strong performance when he won ten races to take the full Formula Vauxhall Championship.

After finishing third in British Formula 3 in 1997, he took the 1998 Japanese Formula 3 title with a record-breaking eight wins out of ten races. The climax of Dumbreck's 1998 season was victory at the Macau Grand Prix – a race that traditionally attracts entries from all the world's top flight Formula 3 drivers.

This dominant outing in Japanese Formula 3 enabled Dumbreck to move up to the Formula Nippon championship for the 1999 season. ^[1] Driving for Team LeyJun, his performances were good enough for seventh in the championship (including both a second place finish and a pole position in Round 4 at Fuji) as well as scoring all of the team's points for the season.

In that same year, Dumbreck escaped uninjured from a violent crash during the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans race when his No. 5 Mercedes-Benz CLR somersaulted into the woods at about 300 km/h (190 mph). ^[2] An aerodynamic design flaw caused the front of the car to rise and then flip without any external contact; Mark Webber had already suffered similar crashes in the No. 4 car during the Thursday night practice and the Saturday morning warm-up. The remaining No. 6 car was retired immediately, and the team withdrew from all other planned entries in endurance racing and the American Le Mans Series.

When the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) returned from the 2000 season onwards, Dumbreck continued to race for Mercedes-Benz in the DTM touring car championship until 2002. A third place in the final standings of the 2001 season was his best result. He then moved to the Opel team in 2003 and 2004 where he suffered another major accident at Zandvoort track in 2004. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2005 Dumbreck returned to Japanese Super GT (JGTC/Super GT) in the midst of the season, driving a Toyota which became Lexus from 2006 to 2008. His first victory for Lexus came at Fuji on 4 May 2006. ^[5]

In 2006, he returned to Le Mans and drove the No. 85 Spyker Spyder for Spyker Squadron in the GT2 class, but that car retired with only 40 laps completed resulting in 47th finish overall. The same result occurred two years later 52nd overall only 43 laps completed. In 2010, Dumbreck returned again with Spyker and finally finished the race 27th overall, a classified finisher, and ninth place in GT2.

In 2015, he won third place overall at the 43rd ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hour Endurance Race with Falken Motorsports.

On 12 May 2017 he broke the lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife with the full electric Supercar NIO EP9 by Chinese manufacturer NIO with a 6:45.90. It was the first time a full electric car held the lap record at the Nordschleife. ^[6]

Racing record

Complete British Formula 3 results

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

Year	Entrant	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Pts
1997	Stewart Racing	Mugen	A	DON 5	SIL 2	THR 3	BRH 2	SIL 4	CRO 3	OUL 1	SIL 13	PEM 1 3	PEM 2 Ret	DON 5	SNE 1 6	SNE 2 5	SPA DNS	SIL 7	THR 4	3rd	149

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results

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

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1998	TOM'S	Toyota	SUZ 1	TSU 3	MIN 1	FUJ 1	MOT 2	SUZ 1	SUG 1	TAI 1	SEN 1	SUG 1	1st	63

Complete JGTC/Super GT results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1998	Apex	Toyota MR2	GT300	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ 2	MOT 4	MIN 4	SUG Ret			6th	35
2005	Toyota Team Kraft	Toyota Supra	GT500	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	MOT 5	FUJ 6	AUT 9	SUZ 13		18th	13
2006	Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 14	OKA 12	FUJ 1	SEP 11	SUG 7	SUZ 3	MOT 7	AUT 9	FUJ 2	9th	64
2007	Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 8	OKA 9	FUJ 7	SEP	SUG	SUZ Ret	MOT 9	AUT 11	FUJ 11	21st	12
2008	Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 6	OKA 6	FUJ 5	SEP 10	SUG 2	SUZ 10	MOT 6	AUT 15	FUJ 6	9th	45

Complete Formula Nippon 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	DC	Points
1999	Team LeyJun	SUZ 4	MOT 6	MIN 5	FUJ 2	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ 5	MIN 5	MOT 10	SUZ 10	7th	16

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1999	AMG-Mercedes	Christophe Bouchut Nick Heidfeld	Mercedes-Benz CLR	LMGTP	75	DNF	DNF
2006	Spyker Squadron b.v.	Donny Crevels Tom Coronel	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	40	DNF	DNF
2008	Snoras Spyker Squadron	Ralf Kelleners Alexey Vasilyev	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	GT2	43	DNF	DNF
2010	Spyker Squadron	Tom Coronel Jeroen Bleekemolen	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	GT2	280	27th	9th
2012	JRM	David Brabham Karun Chandhok	HPD ARX-03a	LMP1	357	6th	6th
2013	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Stefan Mücke	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	LMGTE Pro	314	17th	3rd

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
2000	Persson Motorsport	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 5	OSC 1 11	OSC 2 5	NOR 1 14	NOR 2 9	SAC 1 2	SAC 2 2	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 12	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 NC	OSC 2 6	NÜR 1 10	NÜR 2 9	HOC 1 7	HOC 2 Ret			8th	75
2001	Team D2 AMG	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 2	HOC CR 3	NÜR QR 3	NÜR CR 8	OSC QR 5	OSC CR 4	SAC QR 1	SAC CR 6	NOR QR 7	NOR CR 5	LAU QR 4	LAU CR 1	NÜR QR Ret	NÜR CR DNS	A1R QR 2	A1R CR Ret	ZAN QR 3	ZAN CR 7	HOC QR 3	HOC CR 2	3rd	88
2002	Persson Motorsport	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR 7	HOC CR 16†	ZOL QR 16	ZOL CR 13	DON QR 17	DON CR 10	SAC QR 12	SAC CR 10	NOR QR 12	NOR CR 9	LAU QR 16	LAU CR 15	NÜR QR 17	NÜR CR 8	A1R QR 15	A1R CR 18	ZAN QR 18	ZAN CR 13	HOC QR 13	HOC CR 12	17th	0
2003	OPC Team Phoenix	Opel Astra V8 Coupé 2003	HOC 6	ADR 6	NÜR 5	LAU 2	NOR 4	DON 6	NÜR 10	A1R Ret	ZAN 10	HOC 4											7th	31
2004	OPC Team Phoenix	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2004	HOC 6	EST 9	ADR Ret	LAU 11	NOR 7	SHA 1	NÜR 8	OSC 11	ZAN Ret	BRN 11	HOC Ret										10th	12

• † – Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

¹ – A non-championship one-off race was held in 2004, in Shanghai, China.

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
2005	Porsche AG	Porsche 997 GT3	ITA	ESP	MON	GER	USA	USA	FRA	GBR 11	GER	HUN	ITA	BEL	NC‡	0‡

‡ – Not eligible for points for entering as a guest driver.

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
2010	Sumo Power GT	Nissan	ABU QR 11	ABU CR 16	SIL QR 8	SIL CR Ret	BRN QR 3	BRN CR 3	PRI QR 9	PRI CR 2	SPA QR 8	SPA CR Ret	NÜR QR Ret	NÜR CR 15	ALG QR 1	ALG CR 4	NAV QR 16	NAV CR Ret	INT QR 2	INT CR 6	SAN QR 6	SAN CR Ret	9th	71
2011	JR Motorsports	Nissan	ABU QR 2	ABU CR 2	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR Ret	ALG QR 1	ALG CR 12	SAC QR 6	SAC CR 7	SIL QR Ret	SIL CR Ret	NAV QR 7	NAV CR 9	PRI QR 4	PRI CR Ret	ORD QR 2	ORD CR 2	BEI QR 7	BEI CR 7	SAN QR NC	SAN CR 8	9th	78

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	JRM	LMP1	HPD ARX-03	Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8	SEB 12	SPA 9	LMS 5	SIL 7	SÃO 9	BHR Ret	FUJ 5	SHA 5	10th	50.5
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA 4	LMS 3	SÃO	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	13th	42

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	Pos.	Pts
2014	Krohn Racing	GTLM	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 V8	DAY 7	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET	32nd	25

References

1. 1999 Formula Nippon Round 5 Suzuka, 18 March 2018, retrieved 22 April 2023
2. 24 Hours of Le Mans 1999 | Peter Dumbreck's Shocking Mercedes flip!, 5 January 2015, retrieved 22 April 2023
3. Peter Dumbreck crash DTM Zandvoort 2004, 7 April 2010, retrieved 22 April 2023
4. Magazine, Speedsport. "DTM (German Touringcar Masters) - Season 2004: Results". www.speedsport-magazine.com. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
5. "SUPERGT.net | 2006 Round3 Race Result". supergt.net. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
6. TopGear Report: Video: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/video-watch-nio-ep9s-645-ring-record

External links

• Official website
• (in German) DTM career
• Peter Dumbreck
• Archived 14 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• Motorsport.com: Magazine channel
• Japanese (F) Race Results 1998
• SUPERGT.net | 2006 Team Information
• SUPERGT.net | 2006 Round3 Race Review

Awards
Preceded by Guy Smith	Autosport British Club Driver of the Year 1996	Succeeded by Doug Bell
Sporting positions
Preceded by Tom Coronel	All-Japan Formula Three Champion 1998	Succeeded by Darren Manning
Preceded by Soheil Ayari	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1998	Succeeded by Darren Manning