Christian Menzel

This article is about a German racing driver. For the politician of the same name see Christian Menzel (politician) , for the physician, botanist and sinologist see Christian Mentzel .

Christian Menzel

Nation:	Germany
DTM
First race:	Hockenheimring I 2000
Teams (manufacturers)
2000 Team Irmscher ( Opel )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 15th - - -
Podiums:	-
Overall wins:	-
Points:	5

Christian Menzel at the 2006 Porsche Carrera Cup

Christian Menzel (born June 22, 1971 in Langenfeld ) is a German racing car driver .

Career

His career began in 1981 in karting . From 1991 he drove ADAC BMW Formula Junior , later Formula Renault and from 1994 Formula 3 .

In 1996 he moved to BMW in the Super Touring Car Cup , where he worked for the Isert team for two years. In 1998 he won with Hans-Joachim Stuck , Andreas Bovensiepen and Marc Duez on a BMW 320d , the Nürburgring 24 Hours , after participating in previous years, several times on other vehicles.

In 1999 Menzel supported the American BMW team Prototype Technology Group in the American Le Mans Series and finished one of the three championship races as class winner in the GT category . In 2000, Menzel separated from BMW and, among other things, drove a Porsche 996 GT3 R for Dick Barbour Racing in the Asia Pacific Le Mans Series alongside the DTM for Opel . He then received a contract for the following year with the Porsche team Alex Job Racing in the American Le Mans Series, but had previously competed for White Lightning Racing in the Daytona 24-hour race . He finished his first race in the Grand-Am with Mike Fitzgerald , Lucas Luhr and Randy Pobst in second place overall and as class winner in the GT. In the following eight races of the ALMS, Menzel and Randy Pobst were on the podium in their class in three races. He also finished a race in the European Le Mans Series on the podium in the GT class.

Afterwards, Menzel concentrated on the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany - where he was overall winner in 2005 - and the Porsche Supercup , in which he participated for a total of seven years. In 2008 he switched to the StarChase Team from China in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. There he took second place in the overall ranking, in 2009 and 2010 he won the cup. Christian Menzel also competes in various Porsche 911 GT3 Cups in the BFGoodrich endurance championship at the Nürburgring .

He also works as an instructor at the driving safety center at the Nürburgring, his place of residence in Kelberg is in the immediate vicinity of the traditional race track.

statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Randy Pobst	Timo Bernhard	Rank 9

Individual results in the DTM

season	team	Manufacturer	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2000	Team Irmscher	Opel	HO1		OS1		NOR		SAC		NÜ1		OS2		NÜ2		HO2		5	17th
			14th	11	14th	DNF	16	DNF	9	13	17th	9	DNF	DNF	17th	10	DNF	DNS

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

Web links

• official homepage
• Driving safety center Nürburgring