Gunnar Jeannette
Jeannette in 2012
Nationality	American
Born	(1982-05-05)May 5, 1982 (age 43) West Palm Beach, Florida
IMSA WeatherTech Championship career
Current team	WeatherTech Racing
Racing licence	FIA Gold(until 2021) FIA Silver(2022–)[1]
Previous series
American Le Mans Series Rolex Sports Car Series World Endurance Championship European LeMans Series
Championship titles
2005 2011 2013	Grand Am Cup Team Champion ALMS LMPC Driver Champion ELMS GTE Team Champion

Gunnar Patrick Jeannette^[2] (born May 5, 1982 inWest Palm Beach, Florida) is an American racing driver who serves as the Team Principal forAO Racing. He won the2011 American Le Mans Series season LMPC Drivers' Championship.^[3]

Jeannette started racing, driving in Historic Sports Car racing at the age of 16. He made the jump to the professional ranks less than one year later.

Jeannette made hisAmerican Le Mans Series debut in 2000, scoring six top-10 finishes in seven starts in both the Prototype and GT classes. In 2002, he made his LMP900 class debut in a Panoz before moving to the factory supported JML Team Panoz squad in 2003, where he scored his best-ever overall finish of third (2nd in class) at Mosport.

For 2004, Jeannette moved back to GT2, piloting the Panoz Esperante GTLM for what turned out to be a three-year stint with two different teams. His best result was a fourth at Mosport and Petit Le Mans with co-driverTommy Milner in 2006.

After making a handful of starts in 2008 for Corsa Motorsports, Jeannette returned to full-time ALMS competition in 2010 in the new LMPC class. Driving for his father's Green Earth Team Gunnar outfit, Jeannette became the first LMPC pole winner in series history. He went on to win four races withElton Julian and finish 2nd in the Drivers Championship that year.

Jeannette joined CORE autosport for 2011 and continued his streak of success in LMPC, taking two wins, three pole positions and three fastest race laps en route to the LMPC Drivers Championship. He shared the honor with season-long co-driverRicardo Gonzalez and Genoa Racing's Eric Lux, who ended up on equal points to the CORE autosport duo.

At the age of 18, Jeannette became the youngest-ever driver to finish the24 Hours of Le Mans, in his race debut in 2000. He's since competed an additional seven times, with a best finish of fifth overall in 2003.

Jeannette made his debut in the Grand-AmRolex Sports Car Series GTU class at the 2000 Rolex 24 at Daytona. He won his first-ever Rolex Series race one year later in the GTS class and has since made sporadic starts in the series.

In 2005, Jeannette ran his first full season in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, finishing sixth in GS Points Standings with two victories to his credit driving forMultimatic Motorsports. He returned to full-time competition in 2010 with co-driver Frankie Montecalvo, finishing 10th in the GS class championship.

For 2012, Jeannette rejoined Multimatic Motorsports for its new Street Tuner-class Ford Focus ST-R development program.

Jeannette made his FIA World Endurance Championship debut in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on May 5, 2012, co-driving the No. 58 Luxury Racing Ferrari F458 Italia with Frankie Montecalvo and Pierre Ehret to a fifth-place finish in the GTE-Am class.^[4] The trio did not finish the2012 24 Hours of Le Mans after suffering an accident during the overnight hours.

Jeannette made his24H Series return, at the first round of2021 in theDubai 24 Hour at theDubai Autodrome for Simpson Motorsport in anAudi RS3 LMS TCR. He had previously raced in 2013 in aFerrari 458 Italia GT3 forRam Racing.

Jeannette is an avid extreme sporting enthusiast. Since 2004, he has done over 1,500 skydives and 200 BASE jumps in various locations worldwide. Jeannette has also participated in world record skydives and has been featured on MTV, People Magazine, USA Today and several other local and national publications.^[5]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2000	Manthey Racing Gunnar Racing	Michael Brockman Mike Lauer	Porsche 911 GT3-R	GT	261	27th	6th
2001	Freisinger Motorsport	Romain Dumas Philippe Haezebrouck	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	282	7th	2nd
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Bill Auberlen David Donohue	Panoz LMP01 Evo-Élan	LMP900	230	DNF	DNF
2003	JML TeamPanoz	Olivier Beretta Max Papis	Panoz LMP01 Evo-Élan	LMP900	360	5th	3rd
2004	Epsilon Sport	Renaud Derlot Gavin Pickering	Courage C65-JPX	LMP2	124	DNF	DNF
2006	Multimatic Motorsport TeamPanoz	Scott Maxwell Tommy Milner	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	GT2	34	DNF	DNF
2008	Team BruichladdichRadical	Marc Rostan Ben Devlin	Radical SR9-AER	LMP2	297	31st	6th
2012	Luxury Racing	Pierre Ehret Frankie Montecalvo	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	GTE Am	146	DNF	DNF
2023	Project 1 –AO	Matteo Cairoli P. J. Hyett	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Am	309	35th	7th
Sources:[6][7]

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position)

^† Jeannette did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points.

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