André Lotterer

Lotterer advanced through German and British Formula Three before being named Jaguar Racing's Formula One test driver in 2002, a position he held through 2003. He contested a one-off Champ Car race that year at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for Dale Coyne Racing, scoring a single point. When a race seat at Jaguar did not materialise — the team chose Mark Webber and Antônio Pizzonia — Lotterer relocated to Japan.

In Japan, Lotterer became a championship-level competitor across two major series. He won the Super GT Championship twice, in 2006 and 2009, and claimed the Formula Nippon (later Super Formula) Championship in 2011, all with the TOM'S team. He accumulated 24 Formula Nippon wins across his time in the series, competing there until 2017.

Lotterer made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in 2009 as a late fill-in for the Kolles privateer Audi team. After third driver Narain Karthikeyan dislocated his shoulder in a non-racing injury, Lotterer and Charles Zwolsman Jr. drove the entire race themselves in an Audi R10, finishing seventh overall.

That performance earned him a works Audi Sport drive in 2010, partnering Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer in the new Audi R15 TDI plus. The trio finished second overall. In 2011, the same three drivers won Le Mans outright in the Audi R18, holding off three Peugeot 908 works entries to win by thirteen seconds, giving Audi its tenth overall Le Mans victory.

Lotterer won Le Mans twice more with Audi alongside Fässler and Tréluyer, and in the inaugural 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship season, the same trio claimed the drivers' title. From 2012 to 2016, Lotterer remained with Audi Sport Team Joest in the WEC. When Audi withdrew from the top class after 2016, Lotterer moved to Porsche for 2017, joining Nick Tandy and 2016 world champion Neel Jani in the No. 1 car. Porsche subsequently departed LMP1, and Lotterer joined Rebellion Racing for 2018–19 alongside Jani and Bruno Senna.

Lotterer returned to the WEC in 2023, joining Porsche's Hypercar programme with Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor in the No. 6 entry. In 2024, the trio won the drivers' championship, Lotterer's second WEC title and his first since 2012. In December 2024, he signed with Genesis Magma Racing to help develop their GMR-001 LMDh prototype alongside Pipo Derani.

Beyond his Jaguar test role, Lotterer made a single Formula One race start at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix, substituting for Kamui Kobayashi at Caterham. He qualified twenty-first and ran for one lap before a mechanical failure ended his race. He was subsequently invited for the Italian Grand Prix but declined after learning he would not have access to all available running sessions.

Lotterer competed in Formula E from 2017 to 2023. He joined the series with Techeetah in 2017, partnering Jean-Éric Vergne, and finished eighth in 2017–18 with 64 points. He nearly won the 2019 Hong Kong ePrix after leading most of the race, but a late collision with Sam Bird caused a puncture that dropped him to fourteenth. He claimed his first Formula E pole in Rome that same season, finishing second. Lotterer moved to TAG Heuer Porsche in 2019, scoring a pole and a second place in Diriyah, before finishing the shortened 2019–20 season eighth. His final Formula E season came with Avalanche Andretti in 2022–23, where he finished eighteenth with 23 points, a sharp contrast to teammate Jake Dennis's championship-winning 229. He announced his departure from the series in September 2023, returning full-time to endurance racing.

Lotterer has lived in Tokyo and subsequently Monaco. He maintains close ties to Nivelles, Belgium where he was raised, and to his hometown of Renningen. His interests outside racing include cycling, classic car collecting, photography, and driving off-road buggies. He is a close friend of former teammate Jean-Éric Vergne and of Allan McNish, the former racing driver who became Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team principal.