Paul Harkema is a racing driver from Netherlands who last raced in Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for AVIA W&S Motorsport. Harkema has recorded 3 wins and 7 podiums from 17 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,078 ranks Harkema 8051th of 40,308 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2023-10-07 | Nürburgring Nordschleife Cup 2 | P4 | +92 |
| 2023-09-23 | Nürburgring Nordschleife Cup 2 | P2 | +151 |
| 2023-07-08 | Nürburgring Nordschleife Cup 2 | P14 | −107 |
| 2023-06-17 | Nürburgring Nordschleife Cup 2 | P8 | −2 |
| 2023-04-15 | Nürburgring Nordschleife Cup 2 | P2 | +158 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +206 | Nürburgring Nordschleife 2022 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | P1 |
| +201 | Nürburgring Nordschleife 2022 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | P2 |
| +196 | Nürburgring Nordschleife 2022 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | P1 |
| +184 | Nürburgring Nordschleife 2023 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | P1 |
| +158 | Nürburgring Nordschleife 2023 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | P2 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | AVIA W&S Motorsport | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P9 | +393 | 3,348 |
| 2022 | ▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P7 | ↑125+627 | 2,955 |
| ▸Nürburgring 24 Hours | BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | −20 | ||
| 2021 | ▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | BLACK FALCON Team TEXTAR Porsche | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ↑302−27 | 2,223 |
| 2019 | ▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | PROsport-Performance GmbH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +598 | 1,948 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Noah NagelsdiekFIA Silver | 4,408 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 53% |
| 🇩🇪 Christopher BrückFIA Silver | 3,651 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 27% |
| 🇩🇪 Marcel HoppeFIA Silver | 3,333 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 60% |
| 🇩🇪 Nick SalewskyFIA Silver | 3,226 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 47% |
| 🇩🇪 Arne HoffmeisterFIA Silver | 3,952 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 50% |
| 🇩🇪 Klaus AbbelenFIA Bronze | 3,586 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 62% |
| 🇩🇪 Ben BünnagelFIA Silver | 4,351 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 58% |
| 🇩🇪 Karsten KrämerFIA Bronze | 4,161 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50% |
| 🇩🇪 Moritz KranzFIA Silver | 4,156 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇩🇪 Robin ChrzanowskiFIA Silver | 3,237 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 67% |
| 🇹🇷 Ayhancan GüvenFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 5,614 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇫🇷 Dorian BoccolacciFIA Gold | 5,207 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 67% |
| 🇯🇵 Jörg BergmeisterFIA Platinum | 5,202 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8,041 | 🇮🇹 Base Up | FIA GT Championship | 3,079 |
| 8,042 | 🇮🇹 Filippo Ponti | Formula Renault Eurocup | 3,079 |
| 8,043 | 🇺🇸 Johnny Borneman III | ARCA Menards West | 3,079 |
| 8,044 | 🇺🇸 Kevin Davis | Pro Mazda Championship | 3,079 |
| 8,045 | 🇪🇸 Miki Blascos | Spanish F4 | 3,079 |
| 8,046 | 🇫🇷 Stéphane Echallard | FIA GT Championship | 3,079 |
| 8,047 | 🇺🇸 Thomas Capizzi | Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final | 3,079 |
| 8,048 | 🇧🇷 Zak Morioka | IndyCar | 3,079 |
| 8,049 | 🇻🇪 Zdenek Chovanec | Formula 3 | 3,079 |
| 8,050 | 🇫🇮 Joni Wiman | Formula Renault Eurocup | 3,078 |
| 8,051 | 🇳🇱 Paul Harkema | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,078 |
| 8,052 | 🇫🇷 Romain Yvon | FIA GT Championship | 3,078 |
| 8,053 | 🇬🇧 Alexander Sedgwick | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,077 |
| 8,054 | 🇦🇺 Antonio Astuti | S5000 | 3,077 |
| 8,055 | 🇦🇹 Constantin Kletzer | 24H Series | 3,077 |
| 8,056 | 🇬🇧 Ian McKellar Jr. | FIA GT Championship | 3,077 |
| 8,057 | 🇨🇦 Marco Kacic | IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge | 3,077 |
| 8,058 | 🇺🇸 Richard Jarvis Jr. | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,077 |
| 8,059 | 🇺🇸 Ryan Hall | Zenith Racing Series | 3,077 |
| 8,060 | 🇯🇵 Tomiko Yoshikawa | FIA GT Championship | 3,077 |
| 8,061 | 🇺🇸 Chris Young, Jr. | NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour | 3,076 |
Paul Harkema is an entry-level professional competing in multiclass endurance racing at the Nürburgring. He races Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars and near-standard production machinery in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a national championship mixing amateur and graded-professional drivers across fifteen classes in shared-car sprint races. FIA Silver graded, he drove for AVIA W&S Motorsport across four seasons and made a single start for BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA at the Nürburgring 24 Hours.[1]
From 2019 to 2023, Harkema completed 16 starts in the Langstrecken-Serie for AVIA W&S Motorsport, taking three wins and seven podiums across its Cup 2, production, and V6 classes. His record places him closely matched with Noah Nagelsdiek, a fellow Silver-graded professional and regular series competitor. Against Christopher Brück, the 2023 Cup 2 champion and a driver with 77 starts in the series, Harkema typically finished behind. He finished ahead of Dorian Boccolacci, a Gold-graded driver with extensive GT World Challenge Europe racing, on four occasions, and once ahead of Jörg Bergmeister, a Platinum-graded professional with 28 World Endurance Championship starts and significant IMSA experience. His single outing in the Nürburgring 24 Hours came in 2022 with BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA, an established operation that has fielded drivers including the established professional Tobias Müller.[2]