Robin Frijns

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Robin Frijns
Robin Frijns
Nation: NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
DTM
First race: Hockenheim I 2018
Teams (manufacturers)
2018–2019  Abt ( Audi )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
26th - - 2
Podiums: 4th
Overall wins: -
Points: 129
As of June 9, 2019
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

Robin Frijns (born August 7, 1991 in Maastricht ) is a Dutch automobile racing driver . In 2010 he was champion of the European Formula BMW , 2011 champion of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and 2012 champion of the Formula Renault 3.5 . Since 2015 he has been competing in the FIA Formula E Championship with a one-year break . He has been an Audi works driver in the DTM since 2018 .

Career

Beginnings in motorsport (1999–2012)

Frijns began his motorsport career in karting in 1999 , where he was active until 2008. Among other things, he was runner-up in the French KF2 championship in 2008.

In 2009 he switched to formula racing and competed for Josef Kaufmann Racing in the European Formula BMW . Frijns won one race and was third in the championship. He also won the best newcomer rating.

In 2010 Frijns stayed with Josef Kaufmann Racing and contested his second season in the European Formula BMW. After being in second place in the drivers 'standings behind Jack Harvey for large parts of the season , he took the lead in the drivers' standings on the last race weekend and won the championship title ahead of Harvey with a total of six wins. Since the series was discontinued at the end of the season, he was the last champion of the European Formula BMW. He also took part in three races of the northern European Formula Renault and scored one victory.

In 2011 Frijns competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup for Josef Kaufmann Racing . With five wins, he won the championship title prematurely. In 2011 he also competed for Josef Kaufmann Racing in several races in the northern European Formula Renault. With one win he was fourth overall in this series.

In 2012 Frijns switched to Fortec Motorsport in Formula Renault 3.5 . After finishing third on his debut at Motorland Aragón, Frijns won his first Formula Renault 3.5 race a day later. With two more victories in Wolokolamsk and Mogyoród and a total of eight podium finishes, Frijns won the championship title in his debut season. At the last race of the season in Catalunya , Frijns caused a collision with his title rival Jules Bianchi , who was eliminated. Frijns was penalized for this maneuver after the race and dropped out of the points, but since he was ahead of Bianchi before the race, nothing changed in the drivers' overall result, while his team lost one position in the team classification. Frijns decided the duel against Bianchi with 189 to 184 points. After the season, Frijns completed Formula 1 test drives for Red Bull and Sauber .

GP2 series and Formula 1 test driver (2013–2014)

Robin Frijns at the sprint race of the GP2 series in Spa-Francorchamps 2013

In 2013 , Frijns held the position of Formula 1 test driver at Sauber. He also completed GP2 test drives for Trident Racing . However, there was no engagement with the racing team. After he was without a cockpit at the season opener of the GP2 series in 2013 , he received a place at Hilmer Motorsport for the second event. On his debut weekend he went without points. In his second participation in Barcelona, ​​he won the main race and came second in the sprint race. Due to the lack of a sponsor, Frijns did not have a fixed contract with Hilmer, but was confirmed for one event. After five race weekends at Hilmer Motorsport, he lost his cockpit to Adrian Quaife-Hobbs . One event later he took over the vehicle of his former teammate Jon Lancaster for a weekend . Frijns took part in six out of eleven race weekends and finished the season in 15th place overall.

In 2014 , Frijns was a Formula 1 test driver at Caterham . In this role he also took part in Friday training sessions.

GT Sport, DTM and FIA Formula E Championship (since 2015)

In 2015 Frijns switched to GT racing to Belgian Audi Club Team WRT . In the Blancpain Sprint Series he shared the cockpit initially with Laurens Vanthoor and for the last event with Christopher Mies . Together with Vanthoor, Frijns won five races. He reached second place overall and lost 127 to 135 to the overall winners Vincent Abril and Maximilian Buhk . In the Blancpain Endurance Series , Frijns came second twice in the Pro class together with Jean Karl Vernay . These finished the two in sixth place.

Then Frijns returned to formula racing. For Andretti Autosport he competed in the FIA Formula E Championship 2015/16 . At his debut ePrix in Beijing , he scored points in tenth place. A race later in Putrajaya followed with a third place, his first podium finish. He finished the season in twelfth place overall. Against his teammate Simona de Silvestro he clearly prevailed with 45 to 4 points. In addition, Frijns drove for the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT in several GT series. In the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup he was tenth overall with a victory he achieved with Enzo Ide and in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup he was 42nd overall. He also contested a race in the Intercontinental GT Challenge for Team Phoenix , which he won together with Christopher Haase and Vanthoor, and he competed in an ADAC GT Masters event .

For the formula e 2016/17 Frijns remained with Andretti. With two sixth places as the best result and 24 rating points, he finished 13th in the overall ranking. At the end of the season, due to his contract with Audi, he left the team that was now supported by BMW .

Frijns switched to the DTM in 2018 , where he received a cockpit at Abt Sportsline in the Audi program . There he became a teammate of Nico Müller . In the Sunday race at the Lausitzring , he scored his first point in tenth place. In Misano on Saturday, he finished second on the podium for the first time. At the season finale in Hockenheim on Saturday he achieved another second place. He finished the season with 84 points in 13th place in the drivers' championship.

For the FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 , Frijns received a cockpit from Virgin Racing , which started with Audi customer drives. With two wins and two other podium finishes, he finished fifth in the drivers' championship with 106 points. In addition, with a victory he finished fourth in the overall ranking of the voestalpine European Races , in which only podium places in the races on the European continent were considered. He was also confirmed as an Abt driver for the 2019 DTM season .

statistics

Career stations

Individual results in the GP2 series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Points rank
2013 Hilmer Motorsport MalaysiaMalaysia MAS BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SingaporeSingapore SIN United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE 47 15th
21st 23 1 2 DNF 15th 13 DNF 6th DNF 9 DNF
Legend
colour abbreviation meaning
gold - victory
silver - 2nd place
bronze - 3rd place
green - Placement in the points
blue - Classified outside the point ranks
violet DNF Race not finished (did not finish)
NC not classified
red DNQ did not qualify
DNPQ failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black DSQ disqualified
White DNS not at the start (did not start)
WD withdrawn
Light Blue PO only participated in the training (practiced only)
TD Friday test driver
without DNP did not participate in the training (did not practice)
INJ injured or sick
EX excluded
DNA did not arrive
C. Race canceled
  no participation in the World Cup
other P / bold Pole position
SR / italic Fastest race lap
* not at the finish,
but counted due to the distance covered
() Streak results
underlined Leader in the overall standings

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 Points rank
2015/16 Amlin Andretti Formula E Team China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China AT MalaysiaMalaysia PUT UruguayUruguay PUN ArgentinaArgentina BUE MexicoMexico MEX United StatesUnited States LBH FranceFrance PAR GermanyGermany BER United KingdomUnited Kingdom LON 45 12.
10 3 10 8th 5 15th 7th 6th DNF DNF
2016/17 Andretti Formula E Racing Team Hong KongHong Kong HKG MoroccoMorocco MAR ArgentinaArgentina BUE MexicoMexico MEX MonacoMonaco MON FranceFrance PAR GermanyGermany BER United StatesUnited States NYC CanadaCanada MTR 24 13.
6th 11 14th 11 12 6th 17th 18th 9 9 8th 13
2018/19 Envision Virgin Racing Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia TO YOU MoroccoMorocco MAR ChileChile SAN MexicoMexico MEX Hong KongHong Kong HKG China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China SAY ItalyItaly ROME FranceFrance PAR MonacoMonaco MCO GermanyGermany BER SwitzerlandSwitzerland BRN United StatesUnited States NYC       106 4th
12 2 5 11 3 *14 * 4th 1 *17 * 13 DNF DNF 1

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Statistics in the DTM

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the DTM .

general overview

As of June 9, 2019

season team Manufacturer vehicle run Victories Second Third Poles nice
Race laps 		Points Item
2018 Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi Audi Audi RS 5 DTM 20th - 2 - - - 84 13.
2019 Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi Audi Audi RS 5 DTM 6th - - 2 - 2 45 6th
total 24 - 2 2 - 2 129

Single results

season 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th
2018 GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany LAU HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MIS GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany HO2
18th 12 13 10 7th 8th 12 8th 5 DNF 12 12 2 4th 17th 10 11 13 2 5
2019 GermanyGermany HO1 BelgiumBelgium ZOL ItalyItaly MIS GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ASS United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany HO2
3 3 3 12 DNF NC 4 2

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Web links

Commons : Robin Frijns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Palmares" (robinfrijns.com; accessed on September 4, 2010)
  2. ↑ "Frijns is the third and last Formula BMW Europe Champion" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 12, 2010)
  3. ^ "Frijns e Tunjo si affidano a Kaufmann" (italiaracing.net on January 26, 2011)
  4. ↑ “Robin Frijns graduates to FR3.5 with Fortec” (autosport.com on January 30, 2012)
  5. ↑ Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman: “Barcelona FR3.5: Frijns penalized for Bianchi clash but keeps title”. autosport.com, October 21, 2012, accessed December 23, 2012 .
  6. ^ "Officially: Gutierrez new regular driver at Sauber". Motorsport-Total.com, November 23, 2012, accessed November 23, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "Concentration on Formula 1". Concentration on Formula 1. Motorsport-Magazin.com, March 22, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Norman Fischer, Roman Wittemeier: "Hilmer takes action: But another cockpit for Frijns". Motorsport-Total.com, April 15, 2013, accessed April 17, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Norman Fischer: "Waiting time over: Frijns also at the start in Monaco". Motorsport-Total.com, May 21, 2013, accessed June 3, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Norman Fischer: "Officially: Caterham 2014 with Kobayashi and Ericsson!" Motorsport-Total.com, January 21, 2014, accessed on January 21, 2014 .
  11. ^ Robin Frijns to race for Andretti. FIAFormulaE.com, September 17, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Formula E: Frijns extends contract with Andretti. e-Formel.de, July 1, 2016, accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Audi driver Mattias Ekström ends DTM career. Motorsport-Total.com, January 29, 2018, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Everything stays different. DTM.com, December 19, 2018, accessed January 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Frijns, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht , the Netherlands