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SRT Motorsports: SRT Viper GTS-R Driver Biographies

Name: Jonathan Bomarito
Hometown: Monterey, Calif.
Resides: San Marcos, Calif.
Birthday: January 23, 1982
  • Will compete in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patron for SRT Motorsports
  • Made one ALMS start with SRT Motorsports in 2012 (Petit Le Mans)
  • Competed full-time in 2012 in the Rolex Grand-Am Series GT class with the SpeedSource Race Engineering team. The group won at Barber (Birmingham, Ala.) Motorsports Park in the second race of the season, claimed four podium finishes and won the pole for the inaugural Indianapolis (Ind.) Grand Prix
  • Made his first start in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2005
  • Has been participating in professional road racing for nearly half his life. Bomarito was the Star of Tomorrow Karting Champion in 2000 at just 18 years of age. In 2003 he won the Formula Ford championship with five wins plus captured the series Rookie of the Year title
  • Won Formula Atlantic races at Road America (2006) and San Jose (2007) then finished second in the series championship standings in 2008. In 2009 he joined the SpeedSource team behind the wheel of a Mazda RX and in 2010 won the 24 Hours of Daytona in the Grand-Am GT class. Bomarito and the team won again in the GT class at New Jersey in 2011

Name: Dominik Farnbacher
Hometown: Ansbach, Germany
Resides: Lichtenau, Germany
Birthday: September 26, 1984  Will compete in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patron for SRT Motorsports
  • Led 17 laps in the 2012 Petit Le Mans, the ALMS series season finale at Road Atlanta (Braselton, Ga.) and scored an eighth-place finish, completing 369 laps (more than 937 miles)
  • Teamed with Kuno Wittmer to post three top-10 finishes in four ALMS starts for SRT Motorsports in 2012
  • Finished second in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2006 in the GT2 class 
  • Began his career in karts in his homeland of Germany in 1996. He advanced to single-seater open wheel racing in 2001, before transitioning into the sports car arena
  • First big win of Farnbacher’s career came in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2005 
  • Finished second in the 2008 ALMS GT2 class championship with teammate Dirk Mueller, after scoring four wins and eight podium finishes
  • Set a world lap record for production cars at the famed Nürburgring in Germany in a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR in 2011

Name: Marc Goossens
Hometown: Geel, Belgium
Resides: Huntersville, N.C.
Birthday: November 30, 1969
Nickname: The Goose
  • Will compete in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patron for SRT Motorsports
  • Was behind the wheel for the first on-track test session of the new SRT Viper GTS-R in May 2012 and through all four races in the team’s abbreviated ALMS schedule in 2012
  • Made his debut at Le Mans in 1996 and has 11 car starts in the race. Scored his best career finish at Le Mans in 1997 (second-place) in the LMP class
  • Has two career wins with the Rolex Grand-Am Sports Car Series, along with seven podium finishes. In a limited number of starts in ALM, the Belgian has one podium finish
  • Made a name for himself in endurance sports car racing in Europe after beginning his racing career in 1985 in karts. Claimed the Belgian karting championship three times, as well as the European title. He moved into Formula racing in 1990 and competed in open-wheeled machines for the next six years before making the transition to sports cars and endurance racing

Name: Tommy Kendall
Hometown: Santa Monica, Calif.
Resides: New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
Birthday: October 17, 1966
  • Will compete in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patron for SRT Motorsports
  • Began his career competing in the IMSA Camel GT series in the early 1980s and won series titles in 1986 and 1987
  • Perhaps most recognized for dominating the SCCA Trans-Am Series in the 1990s when he won four SCCA championships during his decade of dominance. His best-ever season behind the wheel came in 1997 when he captured 11 consecutive poles and won 11 consecutive races (of a 13-race schedule) to win the series title
  • Teamed with actor Paul Newman and NASCAR driver Mark Martin to win the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1995
  • Competed in the International Race of Champions (IROC) in six seasons (1991, 1994-1998)
  • Made 14 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts over a 10-year span from 1987-1998. His best career Cup Series finish came at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International where he scored an eighth-place finish driving for car owner Marc Reno in 1990

Name: Kuno Wittmer
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Resides: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: September 6, 1982
  • Will compete in the 2013 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patron for SRT Motorsports
  • Teamed with Dominik Farnbacher to score three top-10 finishes in four ALMS starts for SRT Motorsports in 2012
  • Attended the Jim Russell International race school in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, and was picked to represent Canada in the international finals at Donnington Park in England. He competed against 35 drivers from around the world, finishing second after starting from the last position on the grid. One year later, Wittmer became the youngest driver to compete in the Atlantic Series. Following a stint in the open wheel ranks, he shifted his focus to sports cars where he had made a name for himself
  • Won the Michelin Challenge championship in 2005 and was third in the SCCA World Challenge Touring Car standings in 2007. Wittmer was again third in Touring Car in 2008, while also finishing third in the Grand-Am Koni Challenge ST class that same year. He finished second in SCCA World Challenge GT points in 2010
  • Climbed behind the wheel of an SRT Viper Competition Coupe for the first time in 2009 in an SCCA World Challenge GT event at Road America in Wisconsin. He was fastest in practice and qualified second but was sidelined by a mechanical failure in the race
  • Scored six victories while competing in the SCCA World Challenge GT class from 2008-2010
  • Broke the timed single-lap record for a production vehicle in April 2011 driving a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah. Most recently, he helped unveil the Viper GTS-R at the 2012 New York Auto Show

 

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