Timo Bernhard | |||||||||||
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Nationality | German | ||||||||||
Born | Homburg, West Germany | 24 February 1981||||||||||
Racing licence | FIA Platinum | ||||||||||
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Timo Bernhard (born 24 February 1981) is a former racing driver from Germany. He was a sports car driver from Porsche,[1] but was seconded to Audi for selected events in 2009 and 2010. He is the ninth and most recent driver to complete the informal triple crown of endurance racing. On 29 June 2018, he became the first person in 35 years to break the all-time Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record, set by Stefan Bellof in 1983 with a Porsche 956, in a derestricted Porsche 919 Evo with a time of 5:19.546.[2]