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

(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

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 V8 t	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

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

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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