Johannes van Overbeek

Johannes van Overbeek (/jəˈhɑːnəs væn ˈoʊvərbɛk/; born April 14, 1973) is an American race car driver in the United SportsCar Championship. He currently drives an HPD ARX-03b for Extreme Speed Motorsports.

Career

Johannes raced go-karts as a child, and began racing sedans at eighteen. Since 1996, he has competed in several racing series in North America, including the Speed World Challenge, the American Le Mans Series, and Grand-Am. In 2007, he won the Porsche Cup, and was ranked as the top non-factory Porsche driver in the world. He finished third in 2008. As of 2013, he has eight wins in the ALMS. He was the only driver in ALMS to finish in the top three of the driver's championship every year from 2004 to 2008. In 2009 he drove for Flying Lizard Motorsports. He switched to Extreme Speed Motorsports for 2010. With codriver Scott Sharp van Overbeek finished 2nd in the 2012 ALMS GT championship in a Ferrari 458 GT2 with 2 wins for ESM. Johannes has competed in four 24 Hours of Le Mans races, finishing sixth in GT2 in 2008, fourth in 2006, and third in 2005.

Johannes lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two sons.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Lonnie Pechnik Seth Neiman	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	323	13th	3rd
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long Seth Neiman	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	309	18th	4th
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	124	DNF	DNF
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	289	32nd	6th
2015	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Jon Fogarty	Ligier JS P2-Honda	LMP2	339	15th	7th

External links

• IMSA page