Christopher Mies

Christopher Mies in Assen 2011

Christopher Mies (born May 24, 1989 in Heiligenhaus ) is a German racing car driver .

Career

Christopher Mies began his motorsport career in karting in 2001 and achieved various championship successes. During this time he was sponsored by his father Peter Mies , who is himself a hobby racing driver. In 2006 he got into touring car racing . He started in the Toyota Yaris Cup and finished twelfth in the overall standings. In 2007 he moved to the Leipert Motorsport team in the Ford Fiesta ST Cup . Mies scored two race victories and finished fifth in the drivers' championship. In 2008 he drove the Ford Fiesta ST from Leipert Motorsport in Division 2 of the ADAC Procar series . He won six races and was the overall winner of his division. This paved the way for Mies into professional motorsport.

For the 2009 season, Mies received a cockpit from Phoenix Racing in the FIA GT3 European Championship , in which he took turns with his team mate Christopher Haase at the wheel of an Audi R8 LMS . The two finished three races victorious and became European champions. In addition, Mies denied in the Porsche 997 GT3 Cup of Uwe Alzen in 2009 for the first time the 24-hour race at the Nurburgring . With his teammates Alzen, Sascha Bert and Lance David Arnold , he reached fourth place overall. In the second half of the season, Mies also completed a few races in the ADAC GT Masters and was most recently at the side of the eventual overall winner Christian Abt when Mies stepped in for his team-mate Jan Seyffarth, who was paused due to injury .

Audi R8 LMS driven by Christopher Mies and Luca Ludwig in the 2010 ADAC GT Masters

In the 2010 season , Mies will start in the Audi R8 LMS from Abt Sportsline as a regular driver in the ADAC GT Masters. He scored two race wins with his regular teammate Luca Ludwig and one at the season finale with Jens Klingmann , when Ludwig was put in another vehicle to increase the championship chances for Abt. At the end of the season, Mies took second place in the drivers' championship.

At the beginning of the 2011 season, Christopher Mies went to Australia for the first time. There he was able to achieve first place with his teammates Marc Basseng and Darryl O'Young at his first start in the Bathurst 12-hour race . In addition to his third place in the driver standings in the ADAC GT Masters with Abt Sportsline , he also won a run in the VLN Endurance Championship (10th run) for the first time with Marc Basseng and Michael Ammermüller for the Phoenix team .

In 2012, together with his team-mates Christer Jöns and Darryl O'Young , he repeated last year's victory at the Bathurst 12-hour race. He also played a full season in the Blancpain Endurance Series . As a regular driver for the Audi W Racing Team , he won his first international title since 2009 together with his teammates Stéphane Ortelli and Christopher Haase in the season finale.

Others

Christopher Mies has been a sponsorship candidate at the Deutsche Post Speed ​​Academy since 2009 .

statistics

Career stations

• 2001-2005: karting
• 2006: Toyota Yaris Cup (12th place)
• 2007: Ford Fiesta ST Cup (5th place)
• 2008: ADAC Procar Series Division 2 (champions)
• 2009: FIA GT3 European Championship (champions)
• 2009: 24-hour race on the Nürburgring (4th place)
• 2009 : ADAC GT Masters (12th place)
• 2010 : ADAC GT Masters (2nd place)
• 2011: Bathurst 12 Hours in Australia (1st place)
• 2011 : ADAC GT Masters (3rd place)
• 2012: Bathurst 12 Hours in Australia (5th place)
• 2012 : Blancpain Endurance Series (champions)
• 2012 : ADAC GT Masters (20th place)

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	Fall-Line Motorsports	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Charles aspen leaves	Charlie Putnam	Rank 28
2017	Montaplast by Land-Motorsport	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Connor De Phillippi	Jules Gounon	Rank 19
2018	Montaplast by Land-Motorsport	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Sheldon van der Linde	Alessio Picariello	Rank 20
2019	Montaplast by Land Motorsport	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Daniel Morad	Richard Feller	Rank 22

Web links

• official homepage
• Biography on GTMasters.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Driver ranking of the Toyota-Yaris-Cup 2006 ( Memento from February 26th 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Driver ranking of the Ford Fiesta ST Cup 2007 ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Driver ranking of the ADAC Procar Division 2 2008 ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Driver ranking of the FIA ​​GT3 European Championship 2009
5. ↑ Final result of the 24-hour race Nürburgring 2009 ( Memento from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 189 kB)
6. ↑ Driver classification of the ADAC GT Masters 2010 ( Memento from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Results of the Bathurst 12-hour race ( Memento from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ VLN Season Review 2011 ( Memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Daniel Abt is the sovereign winner of the first evaluation round. ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )