🇺🇸 Dirk Werner

Dirk Werner is a professional endurance racing driver, FIA Platinum graded, who spent his indexed career in multiclass championships across North America and Europe. He raced GT3 and GTE machinery for established teams including Black Swan Racing, Falken Motorsports and BMW Team RLL, competing in shared-car formats where multiple drivers rotate through each race.[1]

His career spans nine seasons from 2010 to 2021, with 58 starts across five series. The bulk of his racing came in IMSA WeatherTech, where he drove 33 races for Black Swan Racing between 2014 and 2019, scoring one win and three podiums in GTD and GTLM classes. He contested the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie regularly over a longer span, 14 starts between 2010 and 2021 in various GT4 and GT3 categories for Falken Motorsports. His other indexed activity included six starts in GT World Challenge Europe for Rowe Racing, a single WEC appearance for Porsche GT Team in 2017, three Nürburgring 24 Hours entries for Falken, and one start in the 24H Series for GPX Racing. His one international sportscar outing in 2017 WEC yielded a 20th-place championship standing.[2]

In IMSA WeatherTech, Werner regularly competed against drivers of established professional standing. He finished ahead of Nico Müller, an established professional with 81 DTM and 55 Formula E starts, on multiple occasions. He also beat Kyle Larson, an elite professional and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, once in the shared-car field. Against Richard Westbrook, a 2015 IMSA WeatherTech champion and fellow Platinum-graded driver, Werner typically finished behind him. He ran closely matched with Tommy Milner, another Platinum-graded professional and 2016 IMSA WeatherTech GTLM champion, across their meetings. Werner's endurance racing record places him among the professionals competing in multiclass grids that mixed amateur and semi-professional entrants with graded drivers of his calibre.