🇸🇰 Miroslav Konopka

Miroslav Konopka is a professional endurance driver rated 3,807, holding an FIA Bronze grading for sportscar and endurance racing. He races for ARC Bratislava, a small Slovak operation, in multiclass and single-class championships that field GT and prototype cars across a mix of amateur and professional competitors. His career spans 22 seasons from 2004 to the present, primarily in shared-car endurance racing where he serves as a co-driver alongside faster teammates.[1]

Konopka has contested 66 starts across five series. His main campaigns came in the FIA GT Championship between 2004 and 2009, where he completed 23 starts as a mainstay for ARC Bratislava, and the Asian Le Mans Series from 2023 onwards, where he continues with the same team. He has taken part in the World Endurance Championship across six seasons from 2017 to 2022, finishing 20th in the championship standings in his final season. The 24H Series, which he has raced since 2020 in GT3, GT3-AM and GTX classes, accounts for his sole indexed victory and two additional podiums; he runs there alongside graded professionals and semi-professional competitors in fields spanning 11 racing classes. A single start in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie in 2015 in an SP 7 production-based car and two Prototype Cup Germany starts in 2025 complete his record.[2]

Against the regular opposition in his long tenure, Konopka typically finishes behind established names such as FIA GT Championship two-time winner Michael Bartels and WEC LMGTE Am champion Emmanuel Collard, both of whom he has faced repeatedly across shared championships. He has on occasion beaten faster drivers; he holds two wins apiece against elite professional Nico Müller, a Platinum-graded DTM and Formula E competitor, and Supercars champion Broc Feeney, an FIA Gold driver. These results come in the context of shared-car endurance grids where co-driver contributions affect finishing positions and ratings alike.