Joël Camathias

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 7 starts in the American Champ Car series for Dale Coyne Racing, his best finish a 9th 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.

Joël is the great-nephew of the late Florian Camathias, a solo motorcycle and sidecar racer, and his father Romeo was a car racer.[1]

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 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 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

Complete CART results

(key)

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rank Points
2003 Dale Coyne Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t STP
9		 MTY
11		 LBH
14		 BRH
13		 LAU
16		 MIL
15		 LS
13		 POR CLE TOR VAN ROA MDO MTL DEN MIA MXC SRF FON 22nd 6

24 Hours of Le Mans results
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
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References
  1. The Family (connections) Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2015-12-13
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Michele Bartyan		 International GT Open champion
2007
with Richard Lietz		 Succeeded by
Andrea Montermini
Michele Maceratesi
Preceded by
Andrea Montermini
Michele Maceratesi		 International GT Open champion
2009
with Marcel Fässler		 Succeeded by
Álvaro Barba
Pierre Kaffer
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