Luis Michael Dörrbecker (

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, 9 January 1993) is a Mexican

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Career

Dörrbecker started his racing career in 2003, when he was fifteenth in the Super Karts Cup México. In both 2005 and 2006 he won the championship. Furthermore, in 2007 he won the NACAM Formula Kart

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Championship Latin America. 2008 saw Dörrbecker's debut in

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, coming fourth in the

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Mexico. He was then second in the Skip Barber Southern Regional Series, held during the winter. In 2009, he got to the twenty-third position in the

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, which used

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cars. He also entered four races of the Skip Barber National Championship, finishing sixth, eighth, seventh and sixth. In 2010, Dörrbecker started racing in Europe, when he entered two races in

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. Later that year, he drove six races in the Skip Barber National, winning one of them. In 2011, he finished ninth in the FR 2.0 Italia and in 2012, he drove eight races in the

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, but only scored two points. However, he did test the

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car at Indianapolis later that year. He then entered the Formula ACI/CSAI Abarth Italian Championship in 2013, finishing on the podium once and seventh in the championship. In 2014, Dörrbecker raced for

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in Formula Acceleration 1. After eight races, he placed in the championship. Dörrbecker entered the first three rounds of the 2015

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, scoring a point. In 2016 he entered the first round of the

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, winning both races. Later he joined the Formula class of the

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also with a Lola B05/52, scoring a win and three overall podiums.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dorrbecker, Luis Michael 1993 births Living people People from Gifhorn Mexican racing drivers LATAM Challenge Series drivers Formula Abarth drivers Formula Renault 2.0 Alps drivers Auto GP drivers Euroformula Open Championship drivers De Villota Motorsport drivers Euronova Racing drivers FIA Motorsport Games drivers