Giedo Gijsbertus Gerrit van der Garde (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈɣiːdoːvɑndərˈɣɑrdə]; born 25 April 1985) is a Dutch formerracing driver andbroadcaster, who competed inFormula One in2013, and theFIA World Endurance Championship between2016 and2023.[a] Insportscar racing, van der Garde won theEuropean Le Mans Series in2016 withG-Drive.
Born and raised inRhenen, van der Garde began competitivekart racing aged nine. After a successful karting career—culminating in his victory at thedirect-driveKarting World Championship in 2002—van der Garde graduated tojunior formulae. He won his first championship at the2008 Formula Renault 3.5 Series withP1. After four seasons and several wins in theGP2 Series, van der Garde signed forCaterham in2013, having previously tested forSuper Aguri andSpyker, as well as being a member of theMcLaren Young Driver Programme in 2006. Van der Garde made his Formula One debut at theAustralian Grand Prix, but Caterham failed to score points all season with theCT03, with van der Garde finishing a career-best 14th inHungary. Failing to retain his seat for2014, van der Garde signed forSauber as a reserve driver. Despite being contracted as a full-time driver for2015, Sauber signedFelipe Nasr, resulting in a multi-million pound settlement after van der Garde soughtinternational arbitration.
Van der Garde moved tosportscar racing in 2016, joiningG-Drive Racing in both theEuropean Le Mans Series and theFIA World Endurance Championship in theLMP2 class, winning the former in hisdebut season after achieving multiple victories. He spent five further seasons in WEC and theIMSA SportsCar Championship withNederland, amongst six appearances at the24 Hours of Le Mans. Van der Garde retired at the end of 2023, becoming a full-timecommentator andpundit forViaplay.
Giedo Gijsbertus Gerrit van der Garde was born on 25 April 1985 inRhenen, Netherlands.[1]
Van der Garde had a successful karting career, winning the Dutch championship in 1998. In Super A he was the best rookie in 2001 and the world champion in 2002.[2]
The following year he joined theFormula Renault 2000 Championship and finished sixth, driving for the Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing. On the strength of his performance he became part of theRenault F1 Driver Development programme.[2]
He joined theFormula 3 Euro Series in2004 withSignature-Plus but after finishing the year ninth he was dropped by Renault Driver Development. A move toTeam Rosberg for2005 yielded another ninth in the series.[2]
For2006 he joined theASM team, which had dominated the season in 2005 withLewis Hamilton andAdrian Sutil. The team claimed the top two places in the championship once more in 2006 – but it was Van der Garde's teammatesPaul di Resta andSebastian Vettel who topped the leader board. The Dutchman ended the year sixth with a single victory.[2]
On 17 December 2006 Van der Garde also announced that he would drive in theFormula Renault 3.5 Series forVictory Engineering, a team that works together withCarlin Motorsport.
Van der Garde had podium positions in mind for the season, but even though he was the most consistent driver, always around 6th or 5th, he did not win nor reach the podium. He finished theseason 6th, 3rd in the Rookie of the year standings. He received several offers for tests inGP2, from teams likeDAMS andArden International, during which he impressed.
He eventually signed withP1 Motorsport to compete in the2008 season.
In the first race of the 2008 FR3.5 season inMonza, Van der Garde managed to qualify on pole for the feature race. Due to regulations, he started 8th in the sprint race because of the reverse grid order in the sprint race. He came through the field to clinch victory in the sprint race, and easily converted his pole position into a victory in the feature race to show his fine form in the start of the season.
In the second race atSpa, he narrowly missed out on pole by 0.033 seconds after previously topping the tables at all practice sessions. In the sprint race,Julien Jousse collided into him forcing Van der Garde into retiring from the race. Having qualified second for the feature race, he lost a position at the start. He immediately overtookMikhail Aleshin on the first lap to regain his position, and later overtookMarco Bonanomi for the lead which he held to the checkered flag.
After this strong start to the season, Van der Garde was never headed in the championship and duly won it with two races remaining.[3]
Van der Garde signed to drive for theiSport International team in the2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, and in the2009 GP2 Series season.[4] At theHungaroring, he took his first victory, in the sprint race. He added two more wins before the end of the season en route to seventh in the championship standings.
He had not been due to compete in the2009–10 GP2 Asia season, but competed in the second round forBarwa Addax. He drove for the same team in the2010 GP2 Series season, equalling his seventh place in the drivers' championship, whilst team-mateSergio Pérez was runner-up.[5]
Van der Garde remained with Barwa Addax for the2011 GP2 Asia Series season, withCharles Pic replacing the Formula One-bound Pérez as his team-mate. He finished third in the championship, behindRomain Grosjean andJules Bianchi, and led themain series after two rounds despite not winning a race. He did, however, take his first seriespole position and fastest lap atCatalunya. He originally tookpole position for theMonaco round as well, but was then penalised for an incident in qualifying. He took no points from the weekend and lost his championship lead to Grosjean, who eventually secured the title with one round of the series remaining. He held second place in the championship until the last round of the season atMonza, where he had a disastrous weekend and slipped back to fifth in the standings, behindLuca Filippi, Bianchi and Pic.
As part of his deal to become theCaterhamFormula One team's reserve driver, Van der Garde joined themarque's GP2 team for the2012 season, alongsideRodolfo González. He returned to the winner's circle with race victories atCatalunya andSingapore, but again was not consistent enough to mount a championship challenge, finishing sixth in the points standings.
On 9 February 2015, Van der Garde returned to this series for testing, racking up over 350 km at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. He drove forCampos Racing (previously known as Addax), for the first time.[6]
2006 saw Van der Garde being brought into theMcLaren Young Drivers Programme.
On 15 December 2006 Van der Garde was confirmed as theSuper AguriFormula One team's test and reserve driver for the2007 season.[7]
On 1 February 2007 Van der Garde was unexpectedly announced bySpyker F1 as the team's test and reserve driver.[8] On 2 February 2007Super Aguri confirmed their belief their existing contract with Van der Garde was still in force, stating "Super Aguri F1 Team has a valid contract with Giedo van der Garde to drive for the team in the position of Friday and Test Driver for the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. The contract was submitted by the SAF1 Team to theContracts Recognition Board on 23rd January 2007."[9]However, on 20 June 2007 Van der Garde tested atSilverstone with Spyker, indicating the contract dispute had been resolved.[10]Spyker originally intended Van der Garde to be the team's Friday driver at theAustralian Grand Prix, but he failed to obtain the necessarysuperlicence from theFIA in time.[2]
Van der Garde was a candidate to race in Formula One for Virgin in 2011, but that seat eventually went to BelgianJérôme d'Ambrosio.
On 4 February 2012, it was announced that Van der Garde would be Reserve Driver forCaterham F1 for the2012 Formula One season.[11] Van der Garde's first Friday practice session came at the2012 Chinese Grand Prix; he went on to complete 6 Friday practice sessions throughout the 2012 season.
On 1 February 2013, Van der Garde's management announced that he would drive for Caterham as their second driver for the2013 Formula One season, next toCharles Pic. Van der Garde finished his first Formula One race with an 18th place at the2013 Australian Grand Prix.
At the2013 Monaco Grand Prix, Van der Garde achieved Caterham's highest ever qualifying place with a P15, this was also the first time that a Caterham made it to Q2 in the 2013 season. Van der Garde equalled his career best 15th during the race despite an early collision withWilliams F1 driverPastor Maldonado. He later improved on this performance by finishing 14th during the2013 Hungarian Grand Prix, ahead of his teammate Pic as well asMarussia driversJules Bianchi andMax Chilton.
He then bested his previous best qualifying position at the2013 Belgian Grand Prix by qualifying 14th after electing to go on slicks on a continuously drying track, having finished the Q1 session in 3rd place after adopting a similar strategy. But despite a good start that saw him remain in touch with the more established teams for the first few laps, he was unable to improve upon his grid position and finished 16th, a lap down on the leaders.
On 21 January 2014, it was announced that Van der Garde had joinedSauber F1 Team as a reserve and test driver for the 2014 season.[12] He took part in the first free practice session in seven of the season's Grands Prix in this role.
During events that became public in 2015, Van der Garde has claimed that, although in June 2014 he was guaranteed a position as one of the Sauber's two nominated race drivers for the2015 Formula One season, by November 2014, the team informed him that he was no longer required.[13] The team instead announcedMarcus Ericsson andFelipe Nasr as their race drivers for the 2015 season, causing Van der Garde to file aninternational arbitration complaint with the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution in December 2014.[13]
On 2 March 2015, the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution released a partial award upholding Van der Garde's contract and ordering Sauber to "refrain from taking any action the effect of which would be to deprive Mr. van der Garde of his entitlement to participate in the 2015 Formula One Season as one of Sauber's two nominated race drivers."[13]
On 5 March 2015, through his management company, Van der Garde then filed an application in anAustralian Court to enforce the Swiss award. In this instance, Australia was the appropriate jurisdiction as it was the location of the first F1 Grand Prix for the season. The court permitted Sauber's new drivers, Ericsson and Nasr (who were not parties to the Swiss arbitration), to be represented and heard.[13][14]
On 11 March 2015, Van der Garde obtained Court orders enforcing his Swiss award thus compelling Sauber to permit Van der Garde to participate at theAustralian Grand Prix held inMelbourne, with F1 sessions scheduled from Friday, 13 to Sunday, 15 March.[15] Sauber's response was to appeal that decision and publicly announce that they would not compromise the safety of the team or other drivers by putting Van der Garde in the car, because theSauber C34 chassis had been tailored to fit Ericsson and Nasr who, through their lawyers, also joined in the appeal.[16][17]
The appeal was heard the following day, on Thursday, 12 March 2015, at which time Sauber also argued that Van der Garde's contract had been terminated by the team in February with the approval of theFIA'sContract Recognition Board and that Van der Garde violated the confidentiality clauses of the contract by discussing it with the media.[18] Lawyers representing Ericsson and Nasr further argued that Van der Garde had not followed due process by failing to give prior notice of his legal action until after it was instituted.[18] That appeal, however, was dismissed with the court upholding the previous order for Sauber to allow Van der Garde be allowed to participate in that weekend's race.[19] Further, the court adjourned the hearing until the following day to hear submissions oncontempt of court proceedings brought by Van der Garde's lawyers against Sauber's team principal,Monisha Kaltenborn.[20]
Due to the risk of having its assets seized for disobeying court orders,[13] Sauber opted to abort participation in Friday morning's first practice session for the Australian Grand Prix.[21] Nevertheless, based on media speculation aboutBernie Ecclestone's intervention to avoid further negative publicity on the sport,[22] Ericsson and Nasr did participate in Friday afternoon's second practice session.[23]
On Saturday, 14 March 2015, the dispute reached a temporary resolution thanks to Van der Garde announcing that he would forego racing in Melbourne,[24] with a view to finding a more permanent solution in the future.[25] The Sauber team and its new drivers for 2015, Ericsson and Nasr, were thus able to complete the Australian Grand Prix's Saturday qualifying session and Sunday race.
On 18 March 2015, Van der Garde confirmed that he and Sauber had reached a settlement after he relinquished, once and for all, his rights to race in F1 with the team.[26] In return for termination of the contract by mutual consent, it is reported that Van der Garde received compensation in the amount of US$16 million.[22] The controversy, however, continued thanks to a statement released by Van der Garde revealing further background and indicating that his intention had also been that of promoting the rights of racing drivers whose contracts are often not honoured. In response, the Sauber team expressed surprise at Van der Garde's post-settlement statement opting to not comment further on the matter.[27]
In April 2015, Van der Garde's manager downplayed rumours of a return to Formula 1 during that season, withManor Marussia, adding that the focus was for a 2016 race seat inDTM orLMP1.[28]
AsMax Verstappen joined Formula 1 in 2015, Van der Garde was often asked for his analysis in Dutch TV Shows.[29] Between 2015 and 2021, Van der Garde was a usual guest in several Dutch TV shows to talk about Verstappen in Formula One. In December 2021, it was announced that Van der Garde would join the analyst team ofViaplay from 2022 onwards.[30] At the new Dutch sports channel, Van der Garde is accompanied by other analysts such as former Formula One driverChristijan Albers and racing driverTom Coronel.
For the 2016 season, van der Garde would return to racing, making his maidensportscar racing appearance withG-Drive Racing in theEuropean Le Mans Series.[31] Partnering withSimon Dolan andHarry Tincknell, the Dutchman went on to take the title in his debut season, with the outfit having taken victory atSilverstone andEstoril.[32][33]
He would also make his debut at the24 Hours of Le Mans during the same year.
† As Van der Garde was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.‡ Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Van Amersfoort Racing | BRN 1 | BRN 2 | ASS 1 14 | ASS 2 Ret | OSC 1 19 | OSC 2 3 | DON 1 2 | DON 2 2 | 6th | 72 |
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Opel Team Signature-Plus | Dallara F302/018 | Spiess-Opel | HOC 1 9 | HOC 2 4 | EST 1 16 | EST 2 6 | ADR 1 3 | ADR 1 6 | PAU 1 12 | PAU 2 Ret | NOR 1 Ret | NOR 1 12 | MAG 1 18 | MAG 2 7 | NÜR 1 7 | NÜR 2 12 | ZAN 1 4 | ZAN 2 8 | BRN 1 5 | BRN 2 3 | HOC 1 12 | HOC 2 22 | 9th | 37 |
| 2005 | Team Rosberg | Dallara F305/039 | Spiess-Opel | HOC 1 Ret | HOC 2 4 | PAU 1 6 | PAU 2 15 | SPA 1 Ret | SPA 2 17 | MON 1 11 | MON 2 Ret | OSC 1 17 | OSC 2 6 | NOR 1 Ret | NOR 2 Ret | NÜR 1 8 | NÜR 2 5 | ZAN 1 Ret | ZAN 2 3 | LAU 1 2 | LAU 2 6 | HOC 1 Ret | HOC 2 13 | 9th | 34 |
| 2006 | ASM Formule 3 | Dallara F306/012 | Mercedes | HOC 1 Ret | HOC 2 7 | LAU 1 12 | LAU 2 9 | OSC 1 Ret | OSC 2 11 | BRH 1 4 | BRH 2 19 | NOR 1 6 | NOR 2 1 | NÜR 1 3 | NÜR 2 11 | ZAN 1 2 | ZAN 2 5 | CAT 1 16 | CAT 2 8 | LMS 1 DNS | LMS 2 12 | HOC 1 9 | HOC 2 2 | 6th | 37 |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Victory Engineering | MNZ 1 19† | MNZ 2 12 | NÜR 1 7 | NÜR 2 19 | MON 1 5 | HUN 1 6 | HUN 2 6 | SPA 1 6 | SPA 2 5 | DON 1 21 | DON 2 12 | MAG 1 5 | MAG 2 6 | EST 1 4 | EST 2 4 | CAT 1 6 | CAT 2 Ret | 6th | 67 |
| 2008 | P1 Motorsport | MNZ 1 1 | MNZ 2 1 | SPA 1 Ret | SPA 2 1 | MON 1 2 | SIL 1 5 | SIL 2 2 | HUN 1 1 | HUN 2 21 | NÜR 1 2 | NÜR 2 7 | LMS 1 DNS | LMS 2 1 | EST 1 8 | EST 2 8 | CAT 1 DNS | CAT 2 Ret | 1st | 137 |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | iSport International | CAT FEA 7 | CAT SPR 4 | MON FEA NC | MON SPR 11 | IST FEA 15 | IST SPR 13 | SIL FEA Ret | SIL SPR 13 | NÜR FEA 12 | NÜR SPR Ret | HUN FEA 7 | HUN SPR 1 | VAL FEA 14 | VAL SPR Ret | SPA FEA 6 | SPA SPR 1 | MNZ FEA 1 | MNZ SPR 6 | ALG FEA Ret | ALG SPR 6 | 7th | 34 | |||||
| 2010 | Barwa Addax Team | CAT FEA 20 | CAT SPR 9 | MON FEA 6 | MON SPR 2 | IST FEA 4 | IST SPR 3 | VAL FEA 4 | VAL SPR 2 | SIL FEA 9 | SIL SPR 7 | HOC FEA 12 | HOC SPR 9 | HUN FEA 5 | HUN SPR 4 | SPA FEA 9 | SPA SPR 2 | MNZ FEA Ret | MNZ SPR Ret | YMC FEA Ret | YMC SPR 19 | 7th | 39 | |||||
| 2011 | Barwa Addax Team | IST FEA 4 | IST SPR 2 | CAT FEA 2 | CAT SPR Ret | MON FEA Ret | MON SPR 9 | VAL FEA 2 | VAL SPR 3 | SIL FEA 8 | SIL SPR 3 | NÜR FEA 6 | NÜR SPR Ret | HUN FEA 4 | HUN SPR 4 | SPA FEA Ret | SPA SPR 20 | MNZ FEA 21 | MNZ SPR 13 | 5th | 49 | |||||||
| 2012 | Caterham Racing | SEP FEA 9 | SEP SPR 4 | BHR1 FEA Ret | BHR1 SPR 9 | BHR2 FEA 3 | BHR2 SPR 19 | CAT FEA 1 | CAT SPR 6 | MON FEA 3 | MON SPR 3 | VAL FEA 11 | VAL SPR 6 | SIL FEA 8 | SIL SPR 21 | HOC FEA 5 | HOC SPR 2 | HUN FEA 5 | HUN SPR 10 | SPA FEA 5 | SPA SPR 21 | MNZ FEA Ret | MNZ SPR 10 | MRN FEA 8 | MRN SPR 1 | 6th | 160 | |
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| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–09 | GFH Team iSport | SHI FEA 10 | SHI SPR DNS | DUB FEA 4 | DUB SPR C | BHR1 FEA 7 | BHR1 SPR 14 | LSL FEA 12 | LSL SPR 8 | SEP FEA 14 | SEP SPR 10 | BHR2 FEA 5 | BHR2 SPR 7 | 12th | 11 |
| 2009–10 | Barwa Addax Team | YMC1 FEA | YMC1 SPR | YMC2 FEA Ret | YMC2 SPR 19 | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | 34th | 0 | ||||
| 2011 | Barwa Addax Team | YMC FEA 5 | YMC SPR 23 | IMO FEA 2 | IMO SPR 3 | 3rd | 16 | ||||||||
Source:[36] | |||||||||||||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicates fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Caterham F1 Team | CaterhamCT01 | Renault RS27‑2012 2.4V8 | AUS | MAL | CHN TD | BHR | ESP | MON | CAN | EUR | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JPN TD | KOR TD | IND TD | ABU TD | USA | BRA TD | – | – |
| 2013 | Caterham F1 Team | CaterhamCT03 | Renault RS27‑2013 2.4V8 | AUS 18 | MAL 15 | CHN 18 | BHR 21 | ESP Ret | MON 15 | CAN Ret | GBR 18 | GER 18 | HUN 14 | BEL 16 | ITA 18 | SIN 16 | KOR 15 | JPN Ret | IND Ret | ABU 18 | USA 19 | BRA 18 | 22nd | 0 | |
| 2014 | Sauber F1 Team | SauberC33 | Ferrari 059/3 1.6V6t | AUS | MAL | BHR TD | CHN TD | ESP TD | MON | CAN | AUT | GBR TD | GER TD | HUN | BEL TD | ITA TD | SIN | JPN | RUS | USA | BRA | ABU | – | – | |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | G-Drive Racing | LMP2 | Gibson 015S | Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 | SIL 1 | IMO 2 | RBR 3 | LEC 5 | SPA 5 | EST 1 | 1st | 103 |
| 2021 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | CAT | RBR | LEC | MNZ 13 | SPA | ALG | NC† | 0† |
Source:[35] | ||||||||||||
† As van der Garde was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
| Year | Entrant | Class | Car | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | G-Drive Racing | LMP2 | Gibson 015S | Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 | SIL | SPA 6 | LMS Ret | NÜR | MEX | COA | 21st | 30 | |||
| Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ligier JS P2 | FUJ 4 | SHA | BHR 5 | |||||||||||
| 2018–19 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Dallara P217 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SPA 7 | LMS 5 | SIL 5 | FUJ 7 | SHA 5 | SEB 5 | SPA 5 | LMS 5 | 7th | 85 | |
| 2019–20 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SIL 3 | FUJ 1 | SHA 5 | BHR 5 | COA 5 | SPA 3 | LMS 6 | BHR 3 | 6th | 130 | |
| 2021 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SPA 4 | ALG 10 | MNZ WD | LMS 6 | BHR 5 | BHR 6 | 9th | 52 | |||
| 2023 | United Autosports | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SEB | ALG 1 | SPA | LMS | MNZ 4 | FUJ | BHR | 14th | 37 | ||
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |  G-Drive Racing |  Jake DennisSimon Dolan | Gibson 015S-Nissan | LMP2 | 222 | DNF | DNF |
| 2018 |  Racing Team Nederland | Jan LammersFrits van Eerd | Dallara P217-Gibson | LMP2 | 356 | 11th | 7th |
| 2019 | Racing Team Nederland | Nyck de VriesFrits van Eerd | Dallara P217-Gibson | LMP2 | 340 | 26th | 15th |
| 2020 | Racing Team Nederland | Nyck de VriesFrits van Eerd | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 349 | 19th | 15th |
| 2021 | Racing Team Nederland | Job van UitertFrits van Eerd | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 356 | 16th | 11th |
| LMP2 Pro-Am | 2nd | ||||||
| 2023 |  Graff Racing |  Roberto LacortePatrick Pilet | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 303 | 37th | 16th |
| LMP2 Pro-Am | 4th | ||||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Rank | Points | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | DAY 8† | SEB | WGL | WGL | ELK | LGA | PET | NC† | 0† | [40] |
| 2022 | Racing Team Nederland | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 V8 | DAY 2† | SEB 2 | LGA | MDO | WGL 3 | ELK | PET | 15th | 676 | [41] |
| 2023 | TDS Racing | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 LV8 | DAY 4† | SEB 8 | LGA 4 | WGL 4 | ELK 2 | IMS 5 | PET 2 | 4th | 1832 | [42] |
Source:[35] | ||||||||||||||
† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
In December 2013, Van der Garde married his long-time girlfriend Denise Boekhoorn, daughter of Dutch businessman and investorMarcel Boekhoorn, at a ceremony inZwolle, Netherlands.[43]
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| Preceded by | Formula Renault 3.5 Series Champion 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | European Le Mans Series LMP2 Champion 2016 With:Simon Dolan &Harry Tincknell | Succeeded by Memo Rojas Leo Roussel |
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