🇲🇨 Hubert Haupt

Hubert Haupt is a professional driver racing in endurance championships, predominantly in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for HRT Ford Racing across a 15-year tenure. He also campaigns the 24H Series multiclass championship in shared-driver GT3 machinery for his own Haupt Racing Team, and competes occasionally in the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Rated 4,294, he holds a Bronze FIA grading, the amateur category in endurance racing that sits below Silver; he is classified as a professional on the basis of his sustained career at this competitive level and the strength of opposition he regularly faces.[1]

Haupt's record spans 106 starts over 17 seasons from 1999 onward. His early career included nine starts in the FIA GT Championship between 1999 and 2005, where he took a single podium. A single-seater excursion in DTM brought three starts in 2021. His primary work has been in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where 51 starts have yielded eight wins and 15 podiums since 2011. In the 24H Series, a multiclass endurance championship mixing amateurs and graded professionals across shared-driver GT3 cars, he has taken two wins and five podiums from ten starts. He has one podium from eight starts in the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Between 2019 and 2023 he contested the GT World Challenge Europe series for Haupt Racing Team with 25 starts.[2]

His regulars are the professional drivers Christopher Haase, a Platinum-graded professional with extensive GT and national-series experience, and Christopher Mies, an established professional and two-time champion in national German racing; Haupt typically finishes behind both. He has finished ahead of Max Verstappen once, the outcome of a single meeting in endurance racing rather than a pattern of competition; he has also beaten Edoardo Mortara, an elite professional and Formula 3 Euro Series champion, once. Haupt Racing Team, which he owns, has recorded 13 wins across the index with a strongest driver in the established-professional category. The team continues to expand its operations; in 2026 it has become co-owned by Fritz, and partnerships with manufacturers including Yokohama have been established for its Ford Mustang GT3 programme.