Felipe Fernández Laser (born 16 November 1988) is a German racing driver.

Career

Fernández Laser began his racing career in 2007 in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup and ended it with three wins in the rookie classification. A year later, he entered the SEAT León Supercopa. Between 2012 and 2013, he took part in a total of six races in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, with the best result being fourth place at the

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. In 2014, Fernández Laser started more and more races in the VLN Endurance Championship on the

Nürburgring The () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s ...

-Nordschleife, initially in a 450 hp Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. In

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, he entered the Nürburgring 24 Hours for the first time and finished sixth overall with his teammates Michela Cerruti,

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and Daniel Keilwitz. In the further course of the year, Fernández Laser drove two overall victories in the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring, in the Dunlop BMW Z4 GT3 Art Car designed by JP Performance. In

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, he was brought in by

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, to drive for Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus. He finished in second place in the SP-X class together with Manuel Lauck, Franck Mailleux and Jeroen Bleekemolen. In 2019, he finished in 8th overall and had the fastest race lap in the class, and in 2020, he finished 14th overall and won the SP-X class for Glickenhaus. In addition, Fernández Laser and Lance David Arnold won the 3rd round of the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring in 2018 for the Frikadelli Racing Team, a team owned by Sabine Schmitz and Klaus Abbelen. In the 2020 season, Fernández Laser entered the

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on a Porsche 911 RSR. In 2022, as part of Frikadelli, he joined the Le Mans Cup alongside Abbelen. Fernández Laser formed a part of the Frikadelli entry that won the 2023 24 Hours of Nürburgring, driving alongside

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, Nicky Catsburg, and David Pittard.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez Laser, Felipe 1988 births Living people People from Uelzen German racing drivers Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers European Le Mans Series drivers Le Mans Cup drivers Racing drivers from Lower Saxony 24H Series drivers Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers Proton Competition drivers GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup drivers Kondō Racing drivers International GT Open drivers