Ferdinand Zvonimir Habsburg-Lothringen

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Ferdinand Habsburg

Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard Habsburg-Lothringen (born June 21, 1997 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian racing driver . He is the son of Francesca and Karl Habsburg-Lothringen , the head of the family of the House of Habsburg . Ferdinand Zvonimir is the great-grandson of Emperor Karl I of Austria . In 2017 and 2018 he started in the European Formula 3 championship . In 2019 he finished the DTM season in last place.

Childhood and youth

On September 20, 1997, he was baptized in Zagreb by Cardinal Franjo Kuharić . His godparents are Georg Habsburg-Lothringen , Alois Konstantin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , Margarita Sakskoburggotski (wife of the deposed Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria ) and Agnes Husslein . Ferdinand also received the traditional Croatian first name Zvonimir (after King Zvonimir of Croatia ). This naming at a time of political instability in Croatia gave rise to speculation, but the Habsburg family denied all attempts at restoration.

Ferdinand Zvonimir is an Austrian citizen . His traditional titles ( Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia ) have no legal relevance and may not be used as a name form in Austria due to the Nobility Repeal Act . They are only used in genealogical literature. In Hungary , where the nobility was abolished in 1945, he competes in motorsport races as Habsburg Ferdinánd Zvonimir .

His entry into the Austrian military service and the assignment to the Army Sports Association in order to be able to carry out tests and training for his Aston Martin DTM team while he was doing his service were discussed in the media.

His older sister Eleonore has been married to the Belgian racing driver Jérôme D'Ambrosio since July 20, 2020 , who thus became his brother-in-law.

medal

As a member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen , he is also a member of the following orders:

Motorsport career

Habsburg in the Northern European Formula Renault 1.6 (2014)

Habsburg began his motorsport career in karting in 2012 . His mentor is Alexander Wurz . In 2012 he won the championship at the Rotax Max Juniors in Lower Austria . In 2013 he drove a race at the Hungarian kart championships and won the championship title of the Rotax Max Juniors . At the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals 2013 , which took place in New Orleans from November 13 to 16 , he qualified for the junior finals after several knockouts and finished it in tenth place. In 2014 he became Austrian national champion in the DD2 class of the Rotax Max Challenge.

In 2014 Habsburg also made his debut in formula racing . There he calls himself Ferdinand Habsburg . He competed in the northern European Formula Renault 1.6 for the Austrian racing team Lechner Racing School . He achieved four podium finishes and finished the season in fourth place. His teammate Anton de Pasquale won the championship title. At the beginning of 2015 , Habsburg competed for Victory Motor Racing in the Toyota Racing Series . With a second place as the best result, he reached eleventh place overall. Habsburg then moved to Fortec Motorsports in 2015 in the northern European Formula Renault , which was equipped with 2.0-liter engines. Habsburg left the series after the fifth of seven race weekends and was 19th in the drivers' standings. In addition, Habsburg made guest starts for Fortec in the Alpine Formula Renault and Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup as well as for Drivex in the Euroformula Open .

At the beginning of 2016 Habsburg returned to New Zealand in the Toyota Racing Series and received a cockpit at Giles Motorsport . He won the season opener in Christchurch and won his first formula racing race. With another win, he finished fourth in the championship. Afterwards Habsburg was active in three racing series in Europe. He drove for Drivex in the 2016 Euroformula Open season . He won two races and was on the podium twelve times in 16 races. In the drivers' championship he was defeated by Leonardo Pulcini with 247 to 303 points and was second overall. He also competed for Fortec Motorsports in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and the Northern European Formula Renault. He achieved two podium finishes in both racing series. In the Eurocup he was tenth, in the Northern European Formula Renault eleventh overall.

In 2017 Habsburg switched to Carlin in the European Formula 3 championship . At the second round of Spa-Francorchamps he achieved his first victory on July 28th.

In 2019 Habsburg competed in the DTM , where he drove one of the four Aston Martin from the R-Motorsport team . He took up the position of Ferdinand von Habsburg there, which was a problem with broadcasting on Austrian television due to the Nobility Repeal Act , since in Austria the use of the nobility suffix “von” is forbidden. He finished the 2019 DTM season in last place in 18th place with just 3 points.

statistics

Career stations

Individual results in the Toyota Racing Series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 Points rank
2015 Victory Motor Racing New ZealandNew Zealand CHR New ZealandNew Zealand INV New ZealandNew Zealand HMP New ZealandNew Zealand DEW New ZealandNew Zealand MAN 490 11.
6th 3 DNF 7th 6th 12 10 2 11 15th 16 16 14th 11 14th DNF
2016 Giles Motorsport New ZealandNew Zealand CHR New ZealandNew Zealand INV New ZealandNew Zealand HMP New ZealandNew Zealand DEW New ZealandNew Zealand MAN   727 4th
1 7th 2 13 8th 4th 6th 9 8th 6th 12 4th 1 7th 3  

Individual results in the European Formula 3 championship

year team engine 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23 24 25th 26th 27 28 29 30th Points rank
2017 Carlin Volkswagen United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly MNZ FranceFrance PAU HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany NOR BelgiumBelgium SPA NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany HOC 186 7th
12 13 12 3 5 5 8th 8th 6th 15th 10 12 DNF 15th 8th 8th 1 6th 4th 6th 2 5 6th DNF 6th 9 4th 3 20th DNF
2018 Carlin Volkswagen FranceFrance PAU HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN BelgiumBelgium SPA United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly MIS GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany HOC 87 13.
17th 11 DNF DNF 8th 15th 18th 5 9 14th 5 7th DNF 10 12 13 13 9 12 7th 3 DNF 10 11 5 8th 6th DNF 12 6th

Individual results in the DTM

season team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th Points rank
2019 Aston Martin GermanyGermany HO1 BelgiumBelgium ZOL ItalyItaly MIS GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ASS United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany HO2 3 18th
DNF 13 9 DNF 14th 12 10 11 13 12 15 * 11 15th DNF 11 15th DNS 11
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

Commons : Ferdinand Zvonimir Habsburg-Lothringen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Croatians celebrate christening of Habsburg heir . In: The Nation (Thailand) , September 22, 1997, p. 7. 
  2. ^ Bernhard A. Macek : Kaiser Karl I .: the last emperor of Austria: a biographical picture sheet , Sutton, Erfurt 2012, p. 90 (family tree)
  3. ↑ Martha Schad (ed.): Power and Myth - The Great Dynasties: The Habsburgs ; Weltbild, Augsburg 2000, p. 72 f.
  4. ↑ Habsburg Ferdinánd Zvonimir Győrbe igazolt. (No longer available online.) In: mno.hu. February 7, 2013, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2013 (Hungarian).
  5. ↑ Christian Nusser: "It's all so real". Today.at, January 10, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Karl Habsburg's daughter, Eleonore, married in Monaco
  7. ↑ History: Reorganization Convention 2008 on the website of the Order of St. George - A European order of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hans Rauscher: Ferdinand Zvonimir wears the double-headed eagle on his helmet , Der Standard , November 29, 2013
  9. ↑ Nathalie Martens: Rasender Royal: The Prince of the King's Class , news.at , October 10, 2013
  10. ↑ Kaiser-Great-Grandchildren loves it fast on ORF from May 3, accessed on May 8, 2014
  11. ↑ Drivers 2014: Ferdinand Habsburg ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), SpeedWorld Academy, accessed February 14, 2014
  12. ↑ Link to a publication about the Rotax MAX Junior Championships in Hungarian
  13. ↑ Placements of the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals 2013 ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Report on the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals 2013 in a Hungarian go-kart magazine online
  15. ^ Participants Spa. (No longer available online.) Frcup.com, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  16. ↑ BREAKING: Ferdinand Habsburg continues in Formula category. (No longer available online.) Motorsport Csatorna, December 3, 2013, archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Successful Austrians - Janits and Habsburg show. In: motorline.cc. October 20, 2014, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Habsburg Starts Debut Toyota Racing Series Season In Ruapuna. In: http://paddocktalk.com . January 15, 2015, accessed January 20, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: Ferdinand Habsburg graduates to Formula Renault 2.0 NEC with Fortec. paddockscout.com, January 16, 2015, accessed January 25, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Gruz David Habsburg joins Giles for second Toyota Racing Series campaign. paddockscout.com, November 23, 2015, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Gruz David Habsburg takes confident win in first Toyota Racing Series race. paddockscout.com, January 16, 2016, accessed January 17, 2016 .
  22. ↑ David Gruz: Habsburg joins Carlin for 2017 European F3 campaign. motorsport.com, December 7, 2016, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  23. ^ Sven Haidinger: Aston Martin: Habsburg and Juncadella complete the DTM quartet. motorsport-total.com, February 19, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Trouble about Ferdinand von Habsburg's title of nobility. In: ran.de. May 17, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Bianca Garloff, Andreas Reiners: Dispute about "von" Habsburg. In: Auto Bild . May 17, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Habsburg-Lothringen, Ferdinand Zvonimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habsburg-Lothringen, Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard (full name); Habsburg, Ferdinand Zvonimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian automobile racing driver, member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria