Johannes van Overbeek (/jəˈhɑːnəs væn ˈoʊvərbɛk/; born April 14, 1973) is a Belgian-American former race car driver in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. He most recently drove a Nissan Onroak DPi for Extreme Speed Motorsports.

Career

Van Overbeek raced go-karts as a child, and began racing sedans at eighteen. Since 1996, he has competed in several racing series in North America, including the Speed World Challenge, the American Le Mans Series, and Grand-Am. In 2007, Van Overbeek won the Porsche Cup award as the top non-factory Porsche driver in the world.^[1] He finished third in 2008. As of 2013, Van Overbeek has eight wins in the ALMS. He was the only driver in ALMS to finish in the top three of the driver's championship every year from 2004 to 2008. In 2009 Van Overbeek drove for Flying Lizard Motorsports. He switched to Extreme Speed Motorsports for 2010. With co-driver Scott Sharp, van Overbeek finished 2nd in the 2012 ALMS GT championship in a Ferrari 458 GT2 with 2 wins for ESM. Van Overbeek has competed in four 24 Hours of Le Mans races, finishing sixth in GT2 in 2008, fourth in 2006, and third in 2005.

Van Overbeek lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two sons.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Lonnie Pechnik Seth Neiman	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	323	13th	3rd
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long Seth Neiman	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	309	18th	4th
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	124	DNF	DNF
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	289	32nd	6th
2015	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Jon Fogarty	Ligier JS P2-Honda	LMP2	339	15th	7th
2016	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Scott Sharp	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	LMP2	341	16th	10th

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)