André
Lotterer

André Lotterer was born in Duisburg in 1981 and grew up in Nivelles in Belgium, where he started karting at the age of seven. He raced in the German and British Formula 3 championships and in 2002 became a test driver for the Jaguar Formula One team. He was not given a race seat there for 2003, as the team chose Mark Webber and Antônio Pizzonia. At the end of 2002 he also took part in one Champ Car race for Dale Coyne Racing in Mexico, finishing twelfth and scoring a point.

He then moved to Japan. From 2003 he raced in Formula Nippon, now known as Super Formula, until 2017, winning 24 races and the 2011 title. He was Super GT champion in 2006 and 2009. In 2009 he made his Le Mans 24 Hours debut in a Kolles-run Audi and finished seventh. In 2010 he drove for Audi Sport and came second, and in 2011 he won the race with Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer, beating Peugeot by 13 seconds. He won Le Mans three times in total with Audi. In 2012 he took the title in the newly created World Endurance Championship with the same team-mates.

His Formula One career amounted to a single start in 2014. At the Belgian Grand Prix he replaced Kamui Kobayashi at Caterham, qualified 21st ahead of team-mate Marcus Ericsson and retired after one lap with a mechanical failure. He turned down an invitation to race at the Italian Grand Prix: the team planned to run Roberto Merhi in first practice, whereas he wanted to take part in all of the available running because of his lack of experience.

From 2017 to 2023 he raced in Formula E for Techeetah, Porsche and Andretti. He took several podiums, the first in Santiago in 2018, and claimed his first Formula E pole position in Rome in 2019. In 2024 he won his second World Endurance Championship title with Porsche, alongside Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor. In December 2024 he joined Genesis.

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