Ellen Lohr
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| First race: | Nürburgring 1987 | ||||||||
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| 1987 BMW , 1991–1996 Mercedes-Benz | |||||||||
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| Podiums: | 5 | ||||||||
| Overall wins: | - | ||||||||
| Points: | 283 | ||||||||
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Ellen Lohr (born April 12, 1965 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German automobile racing driver .
Motorsport career
Kart and formula races
Lohr began her motorsport career at the age of 14 with kart races . Her next stop was Formula Ford , where she won the German championship in 1987. From 1988 she drove in Formula 3 as a works driver for Volkswagen , including against rivals such as Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen . Her best result was second place at the European Championship final in Monaco in 1990. In the same year she also finished second in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring for BMW .
Touring car
The end of the 1980s had Lohr their first appearances in the World and European Championship of touring cars and also three times raced in the DTM . From 1991 she went regularly in the DTM and 1995 / 1996 in the International Touring Car Championship (ITC) for Mercedes-Benz to set the series in 1996. As the only woman she won a DTM race, on May 24, 1992 at the Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2 on the Hockenheimring .
From 1997 she drove a Mercedes truck in the European Truck Racing Championship (ETRC). Her best result there was third place in Misano . She then competed in the DTC , the V8 Star Series and the Porsche Supercup , and worked as a commentator in the DTM.
Rally sport
Ellen Lohr has been involved in rally raids since 2004 and has competed in the Dakar rally since 2005 : initially with a buggy for the 2Drive team, in 2006 with an M-Class Mercedes from the ORC team and in 2007 for the MAXDATA-Mercedes-Benz team. In 2008 she competed in the German Rally Championship (DRM), since the beginning of the 2010 season she competed with a Lamborghini for two races in the ADAC GT Masters and in the same year took one in her only race in the GT3 European Championship together with Philip Geipel third place.
Truck racing
From 2012 to 2014 Ellen Lohr drove for the tankpool24 racing team for the first time since 1998 in the FIA ERTC European Truck Racing Championship . Your race truck was the former Mercedes-Benz racing Actros by Markus Oestreich from the year 2006 . Markus Bauer's team was the only team without works support in the 2012 FIA Truck Racing European Championship season.
Ellen Lohr has been driving a MAN racing truck from Truck Sport Bernau since 2015/2016 . In the 2015 season Lohr finished tenth and in 2016 ninth overall in the European Championship. She ended her career in the last race of the Truck EM 2016 with a 2nd place in Le Mans behind Stephanie Halm and thus achieved the first female double victory in an FIA racing series.
Placements in the European Truck Racing Championship
- 2012: 24th place in the drivers' championship
- 2013 : 21st place in the drivers' championship
- 2014 : 16th place in the driver standings, 5th place in the team standings (truckdrive - JRT with Anthony Janiec )
- 2015 : 10th place in the driver standings, 4th place in the team standings (Truck Sport Lutz Bernau-Albacete with Antonio Albacete )
- 2016 : 9th place in the driver standings, 4th place in the team standings (WOW! Women on Wheels with Steffi Halm )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DRM - Lohr is eliminated from the final. In: motorsport-magazin.com. Retrieved November 15, 2008 .
- ↑ Lohr starts 2012 in the Truck EM. In: motorsport-magazin.com. Retrieved October 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Ellen Lohr has achieved her goal for the season. In: motorsport-magazin.com. Retrieved October 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Results Le Mans 2012. Truck Race Organization (TRO), accessed on March 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Results Truck Race Le Mans 2013. Truck Race Organization (TRO), accessed on March 19, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Lohr, Ellen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |