Lieb, Mark

Lieb started racing in karts in 1992. In 1995, he moved to the German Formula Renault 1800, where the next year he won the silver medal. Since 1998, he performed in Formula Renault 2.0 Germany. In 1999, he won third place in the Formula Renault European Cup.

Since 2000, Lieb has been participating in the Porsche racing program, performing in the German Porsche Carrera Cup, winning 5th place in 2000 and 7th in 2001. In 2001, Lieb also finished on the podium in the Porsche Super Cup .

In 2002, Lieb won the German Porsche Cup with 4 victories in a season. He also scored two victories at the FIA ​​GT Championships in Brno and in the N-GT class. Lieb also took part in the 12 hours of Sebring and , but did not finish in both races.

In 2003, already a factory Porshe racer, Lieb, along with became the winner of the FIA ​​GT Championship in the N-GT class, winning three stages, including 24 hours of Spa . In the same year he became the silver medalist of the 24 hours of Le Mans in the GT2 class.

In 2004, Lieb participated in the American Le Mans series instead of Romain Dumas for . Starting in second place in a class at Sebring, they finished fourth in the season, winning victories in and Laguna Sec .

After the 2004 season, Lieb entered the engineering department of the University of Applied Sciences, Esslingen , combining his studies and racing for an abbreviated program. Lieb had previously studied two semesters at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering at the University of Stuttgart before fully concentrating on racing. After completing his studies, he combines racing and engineering at the Porsche Weissach facility ^[1] .

Returning to the FIA ​​GT Championship in 2005, Lieb, along with Mike Rockenfeller, won the GT2 class both at the end of the season and at the 24-hour Spa. In the same year, he won two more victories in the GT2 class: Le Mans endurance racing series as part of the Sebah Automotive team, winning 3 stages out of 4, and in 24 hours Le Mans together in Mike Rockenfeller and Leo Hindry. The following year, Lieb repeated his success in the Le Mans Series with Joel Kamatias.

Lieb spent the seasons 2007 and 2008 in the Le Mans Series as part of Team Felbermayr-Proton .

In 2009, together with his new partner Richard Litsom Lieb won the European series Le Mans, scoring 3 victories in 5 stages. He also returned at 24 o'clock Le Mans with Person and Henzler, but was unable to finish. At the stage of the FIA ​​GT championship in Zolder, together with Darryl O'Yang, Lieb took 8th place, and in the Nurburgring he was able to win the third consecutive victory. He also took part in three races of the American Le Mans series: together with Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long as a member of the Flying Lizard, Lieb took the 4th place in Sebring and the 5th in in the class, and together with Wolf Henzler as part of the Farnbacher-Loles' team - 2nd place in the class at the Utah Grand Prix .

In 2010, Mark Lieb, along with Richard Litz, won the second consecutive victory in the Le Mans Series, having won three victories against two at Jaime Melo and Janmaria Bruni from AF Corse, they, along with Henzler, won 24 hours of Le Mans in the GT2 class , which became the second for Lieb. In the American Le Mans series, while still playing with Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long as part of the Flying Lizard, Lieb repeated the result of the previous year: 4th place in Sebring and 5th in .

The next season of 2011 in the European Le Mans series in the new LMGT Pro class, Lieb and Litz spent without victories, limiting themselves to two podiums, taking 5th place in the personal and 3rd place in the team classification in the class. They, along with Hanzler, took 4th place in the LMGT Pro class at 24 hours of Le Mans . In Sebring, together with Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long in the Flying Lizard and in Dayton in the Brumos Racing, Lieb took 6th place, and together with Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Lucas Lur won 24 hours at the Nurburgring. As a partner of in the two races of the race took 23rd and 18th places.

In 2012, Lieb, along with Team Felbermayr-Proton, moved from the European Le Mans Series to the newly established World Endurance Championship . In the debut season, the team with 7 podiums (including 2 wins) took third place in the LMGTE Pro class and secured Porsche second place in the classification of car manufacturers in the GT category. In Dayton , Lieb took 3rd place as part of Brumos Racing, as team-mate in two races of the Gold Coast 600 race took 2nd and 14th places.

In 2013, Lieb, together with Liz, transferred to the Porsche factory team in the LMGTE Pro class, where he won the class at 24 hours of Le Mans (together with Romain Dumas, who acted as the third rider in the first three stages), took 5 fourth places and 5th and 6th one each, which brought him 5th place in the personal and 3rd in the team standings. He also won 2nd place overall in the 24 hours of the Spa and won the class at 24 hours of the Nurburgring. In Dayton, as part of Brumos Racing, Lieb did not finish, as a partner of he spent three races in the V8 Supercars.

On September 4, Lieb drove the Nordschleife on a Porsche 918 Spyder in 6 minutes 57 seconds, which is the third time shown on the track in a road car ^[2] .

Since 2014, he began to compete in the LMP1 World Endurance Championship, having won with his teammates the first victory for Porsche at the FIA ​​WEC stage.

In 2014-2015, Lieb became a two-time bronze medalist of the championship. However, at Le Mans he was haunted by setbacks: in 2014, he could not fight for victory because of technical problems, in 2015 - because of an accident.

The most successful in Lieb’s career was 2016: in the first three stages of the World Endurance Championship, along with his crewmates, he won two races, having won his only career victory at Le Mans , and once took second place. And although the remaining races were less successful (4 fourth places, 1 fifth and 1 sixth), the points scored were enough to maintain leadership throughout the season and become world champions with Romain Dumas and Neil Yani .

A week after the final race of the season, Lieb was expelled from the team ^[3] and transferred to a position not related to participation in races ^[4] .

In 2017, Lieb took part in 4 races, taking 2nd place in the overall standings and winning the class at 12 o'clock Bathurst and was a reserve Porsche racer at 24 o'clock Le Mans ^[5] .

24 hours of Le Mans

FIA WEC

* In the team event