Patrick Dempsey is a racing driver who last raced in WEC for Dempsey - Proton Racing. Dempsey has recorded 1 win and 2 podiums from 9 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,527 ranks Dempsey 1654th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2015-11-01 | SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT · LMGTE Am | P4 | — |
| 2015-10-11 | FUJI SPEEDWAY · LMGTE Am | P1 | +25 |
| 2015-09-19 | CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS · LMGTE Am | P4 | — |
| 2015-08-30 | NURBURGRING · LMGTE Am | P4 | — |
| 2015-06-13 | LE MANS · LMGTE Am | P2 | +21 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | ▸WEC | Dempsey - Proton Racing | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +24 | 3,553 |
| 2014 | ▸WEC | Dempsey Racing - Proton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | +15 | 3,529 |
| 2013 | ▸WEC | Dempsey Del Piero-Proton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P36 | +14 | 3,514 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇵🇹 Rui Aguas | 4,069 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 38% |
| 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Collard | 3,844 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 38% |
| 🇬🇧 François Perrodo | 3,822 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 38% |
| 🇩🇪 Christian Ried | 3,633 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
| 🇵🇹 Pedro Lamy | 4,903 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| 🏳️ Aleksey Basov | 3,560 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇨🇦 Paul Dalla Lana | 3,558 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| 🏳️ Victor Shaytar | 3,554 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇮🇹 Paolo Ruberti | 3,481 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 86% |
| 🏳️ Khaled Al Qubaisi | 3,354 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
Patrick Dempsey competed in the World Endurance Championship across three seasons from 2013 to 2015, accumulating nine starts for Dempsey-Proton Racing. He secured one victory and two podium finishes in the highly competitive professional endurance field, averaging a finishing position of 3.9 across classified races. His Racer Rating of 3,527 places him in the upper-amateur to semi-professional band of competitors in a series that draws many drivers from single-seater feeder categories and represents a career pinnacle for sports car racers.[1]
Dempsey's competitive record reveals a driver consistently matched against stronger opponents. He regularly encountered FIA-graded professionals including Silver-rated drivers such as Rui Aguas, Emmanuel Collard and François Perrodo, all multiple champions, in whom he finished ahead three times but behind five times across eight shared races. Against more prestigious rivals, he beat Platinum-rated Pedro Lamy, a two-time champion, on three occasions from seven shared races, and defeated Platinum-graded Earl Bamber twice, though he was outscored overall by most front-runners in the field. His head-to-head record against near-equal competition, such as Christian Ried, was even at four finishes ahead and four behind.
Dempsey's three seasons in WEC constituted the entirety of his recorded racing career, which ended in 2015. His brief tenure in the World Endurance Championship placed him in a field of professional and aspirant sports car drivers but did not establish him as a race-winning force within that series, as his single victory and overall position tallies reflected a mid-field operator rather than a front-running competitor.