🇯🇵 Tim Bergmeister

Tim Bergmeister is a professional driver, FIA Silver graded, who competed in shared-car endurance racing across multiple continents. He raced for Excellence Porsche Team KTR in Super GT, the primary focus of his indexed career, and drove Porsches in club and regional endurance series in Germany and internationally. His competition machinery ranged from GT3 cars to Japanese GT300 specials and production-based race cars across the various championships he entered.[1]

His indexed record spans 2003 to 2016, with 16 starts distributed across four series. The bulk of his racing came in Super GT between 2011 and 2016, where he made 10 starts for Excellence Porsche Team KTR in the GT300 class. He also contested three rounds of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie in the SP 7 and SP 9 classes, a single start in FIA GT Championship endurance racing, and one PCA Club Racing outing in a Porsche GTC4 car. His final indexed season in 2016 saw him finish 20th in Super GT championship standings.[2]

In Super GT, Bergmeister regularly faced established professionals and multiple champions. He typically finished ahead of Haruki Kurosawa, a Gold-graded driver and 2018 GT300 champion, but finished behind Nobuteru Taniguchi, a three-time GT300 champion and established professional with substantially more series experience. He achieved notable results against stronger opposition, including a finish ahead of Tomoki Nojiri, a Super Formula champion and established professional, and Katsumasa Chiyo, a Gold-graded driver with extensive GT racing.