Marc Lieb

He also finished 2nd in the GT class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Marc Lieb (born 4 July 1980) is a former German Porsche factory motor-racing driver.

In the American Le Mans Series, was 4th in Sebring and 5th Petit Le Mans as third driver of Bergmeister and Patrick Long Flying Lizard, and came 2nd at the time of Miller with Henzler for Farnbacher-Loles' team, always in a Porsche 911 GT2 class.

Born in Stuttgart, Lieb started racing in karts in 1992.

In 1995, he moved to cars, racing in the German Formula Renault 1800 championship.

He finished 2nd in the championship the next year.

In 1998, he moved to German Formula Renault 2000.

In 1999, he finished 3rd in the Formula Renault Eurocup.

In 2000, Lieb became a Porsche Junior driver, and raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup, finishing 5th in the championship.

In 2001, he finished 7th in Carrera Cup, and also scored a podium in Porsche Supercup.

In 2002, Lieb won the Carrera Cup championship with 4 wins.

He also took 2 N-GT wins in the FIA GT Championship, at Brno and Enna-Pergusa.

He raced at the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans as well, but failed to finish either race.

He won the FIA GT Championship in 2003 and 2005, and the European Le Mans Series in 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010.

For 2003, Lieb became a full Porsche factory driver, and raced in FIA GT.

He won the N-GT championship, driving with Stéphane Ortelli for Freisinger Motorsport.

Along the way, he won 3 races, including winning the Spa 24 Hours outright in his Porsche 911 GT3-RS.

In 2004, Lieb raced in the American Le Mans Series with Romain Dumas for Alex Job Racing.

Lieb started the season finishing 2nd in class at Sebring, and finished 4th in the championship after taking wins at Portland and Laguna Seca.

After the 2004 season Lieb commenced studies in engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen, combining his education with a reduced factory programme with Porsche.

Lieb had previously studied automotive and motor engineering at the University of Stuttgart for two semesters before choosing to focus on racing.

Lieb completed his degree at Esslingen after seven semesters of study and has subsequently combined his racing with a role as an engineer at Porsche Motorsport's workshop in Weissach.

In 2005 Lieb returned to the FIA GT Championship where he won the GT2 Drivers title with Mike Rockenfeller for GruppeM Racing, netting a class win at the Spa 24 Hours along the way.

He also raced in the Le Mans Endurance Series, winning three of four races and the championship with Sebah Automotive.

Lieb also won the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Mike Rockenfeller and Leo Hindrey.

In 2006, he won the Le Mans Series GT2 championship with Joël Camathias, driving for Autorlando Sport.

In 2007 and 2008 Lieb drive for Team Felbermayr-Proton in the Le Mans Series with a Porsche 911 GT3-RSR (2008).

In 2009, Lieb teaming up with Richard Lietz in the Porsche 911 of Felbermayr Proton in the European Le Mans Series.

He won the GT2 class championship with three wins in five rounds.

On his return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, who ran for Felbermayr-Proton alongside Lietz and Henzler, had to retire.

He also disputed the round of Zolder for the FIA GT Championship for Prospeed, which finished 8th with Darryl O'Young.

Instead, he earned his third victory in the 24 Hours Nürburgring for Manthey.

Lieb and Lietz successfully defended the drivers and teams titles of GT2 class in the 2010 Le Mans Series, with three wins against two semiofficials' Ferrari F430 of AF Corse.

Also, he earned his second victory in the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, once again alongside Lietz and Henzler in the Porsche 911 Felbermayr-Proton.

Lieb returned with Bergmeister and Long for Flying Lizard in the two main races of the American Le Mans Series: Sebring finished 4th and 5th at Petit Le Mans.

Returned to the 24 Hours of Spa as Prospeed driver, accompanying Marc Goossens, Marco Holzer and Westbrook in a Porsche 911 GT2 class, in this occasion the principal during the race, but abandoned.

Lieb continued contesting the European Le Mans Series in 2011 for the Felbermayr-Proton team.

He and Lietz managed two podiums but neither wins in five rounds, so that finished 5th in the drivers' championship and 3rd in the teams championship of the renowned GTE-Pro category.

He won the 24 Hours Nürburgring four times, one time the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016, in the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring, in the 2003 24 hours of Spa and in the 2007 Petit Le Mans.

He is also the 2016 FIA World Endurance Champion.