Simon Reicher

Simon Reicher is a racing driver from Austria who last competed in International GT Open for Eastalent Racing. Reicher is the 2024 International GT Open champion.

Career

Early career

He began karting at the age of eight and won the 43rd Trofeo Della Industrie in 2015. With Certainty Racing Team he made his car racing debut in the 2016 Renault Clio Cup Central Europe. After 2016, he remained with Certainty Racing Team but switched to TCR, where he contested the TCR Germany Touring Car Championship, his highest finish of the season was tenth and he ended the championship in twenty-eight.
Reicher also did cameos in the TCR BeNeLux Touring Car Championship and the TCR Italy Touring Car Championship, where he got his maiden podium in TCE BeNeLux and came fourth in both races in TCR Italy.
For the 2018 season, he switched to YACO Racing, taking a finish of fourth place in his debut race at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben with the team. He also came fourth again in the first race of the second round at Autodrom Most, these were his best performances of his campaign but he finished in the top ten multiple times and ended the season in tenth.

Switch to GT3 competition (2019–present)

Reicher competed in the first two rounds of the 2019 ADAC GT Masters for T3 Motorsport with Maximilian Paul, but after retiring from the two races he contested in, he ended the partnership with the team. He won the DMV Gran Turismo TCC Class 1 title with YACO Racing Team, where he also won his first two motor races. In 2020, he competed in the 2020 24 Hours of Nürburgring for IronForce Racing where he came fourth in the SP9 Pro/Am class. He was supposed to compete in ADAC GT Masters for YACO Racing with Norbert Siedler, but only contested the Red Bull Ring with the team.
He renewed his partnership with YACO Racing and Norbert Siedler for the 2021 ADAC GT Masters, but had a difficult season as the duo got their best result of eleventh place twice and ended their campaign a round early, finishing the championship thirty-seventh in the standings. Reicher also participated in the second round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for Car Collection Motorsport.
Reicher and Siedler continued in the ADAC GT Masters for 2022 with newly founded Austrian team Eastalent Racing, which is owned by his father, Peter Reicher. This was the first season where Reicher competed in the championship full-time and achieved his first ever podium in the series with a third place at Circuit Zandvoort. During the season he also contested the 2022 24 Hours of Nürburgring in the SP9 Pro/Am class with Lionspeed by Car Collection Motorsport, where he came fourth in his class.
With Eastalent Racing, he switched to the 2023 International GT Open, being partnered up with Christopher Haase. The duo were quickly successful in the series, getting a podium on their debut weekend at the second race of the Algarve International Circuit. Reicher got his first ever pole position in the series which he converted to a second place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The duo then won in the series' penultimate round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. They fought for the title and were originally crowned the champions until they were stripped of their title in January 2024 and demoted to runner-ups of the series.
In January 2024, Reicher won the 2024 Dubai 24 Hour with Gilles Magnus, Markus Winkelhock, Christopher Haase and Mike Zhou with Eastalent Racing Team. Reicher then returned to Eastalent Racing for the rest of the year, as he remained in International GT Open alongside Haase. Starting off the season with wins at the Hockenheimring and Hungaroring, the pair then scored further wins at Le Castellet and Red Bull Ring, as well as taking three other podiums to secure their maiden International GT Open title at Monza. During 2024, Reicher also raced for the same team in select rounds of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance and Sprint Cups. For his title defence the following year, Reicher remained with Eastalent alongside Haase, scoring a lone win at the Hungaroring and six other podiums to end the year third in points.