Philip Ellis (racing driver)

Philip Ellis is a Swiss-British-German racing driver. He is currently competing for HTP Motorsport in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, having previously competed in the DTM for the same team.

Career

In 2011, Ellis won the Formula Lista Junior, a championship grouping together Formula BMWs, with the GU-Racing team. In 2012, he took part in the 2012 Formula 3 Euro Series as well as the 2012 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, still with GU Racing, he was aiming for the place of best beginner. In 2017, he won the Audi Sport TT Cup. The series was cancelled in 2018, thus making Ellis the final TT Cup champion.
Ellis competed in the 2021 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters alongside Lucas Auer. He drove for HTP Winward Motorsport. He returned to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for a full season campaign in 2023, joining Indy Dontje and Russell Ward in the Gold Cup class.

‡ Team standings.
^† As Ellis was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.
^* Season still in progress.

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2012	GU-Racing	Dallara F312/019	Mercedes	HOC 1 14	HOC 2 17†	HOC 3 16	BRH 1	BRH 2	BRH 3	RBR 1 14	RBR 2 15	RBR 3 13	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 21	NOR 3 Ret	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	ZAN 3	VAL 1	VAL 2	VAL 3	HOC 1	HOC 2	HOC 3	15th	0

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Year	Entrant	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2012	GU-Racing	Mercedes	HOC 1 14	HOC 2 16	LEC 1	LEC 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	RBR 1 14	RBR 2 13	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 Ret	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	14th	0

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2021	Mercedes-AMG Team Winward	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 6	LAU 1 1	LAU 2 4	ZOL 1 8	ZOL 2 16	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 Ret	RBR 1 3	RBR 2 4	ASS 1 7	ASS 2 12	HOC 1 7	HOC 2 4	NOR 1 10	NOR 2 10	7th	129