Gregor Foitek

Gregor Foitek

Nation:	Switzerland
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1990 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	Grand Prix of Germany 1990
Constructors
1989 EuroBrun , Rial 1990 Brabham , Onyx
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Gregor Foitek (born March 27, 1965 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss automobile racing driver . He is the son of Karl Foitek .

Career

After Foitek became champion of the Swiss Formula 3 series in 1986 , he was promoted to Formula 3000 that same year . There, too, he repeatedly achieved good placings, including a victory at the Vallelunga race in 1988 , so that he was able to finish the 1988 season with seventh place in the overall standings.

Thanks to these solid performances, Foitek was able to secure a driver's place in Formula 1 for the following year 1989 at the defeated EuroBrun racing team from Italy . Since he did not qualify for a single race there, however, he was replaced by Oscar Larrauri at the Italian Grand Prix . After two races without the driver's seat, he joined the Spanish Grand Prix at the German team Rial Racing in place of Christian Danner , however, was after a Grand Prix from the Belgian Bertrand Gachot replaced.

Despite this unsuccessful debut season, in which he had not participated in a single race, Foitek was given the opportunity in 1990 to drive with the better-positioned Brabham team . However, the contract was limited to the first two races of the year, and Foitek was required to pay the team an amount of CHF 200,000 for each race. Foitek qualified for both races but couldn't finish either. Another commitment of the Swiss made Brabham dependent on additional payments that Foitek could not make in the required amount.

In order to secure a cockpit for Foitek in Formula 1 in the future, his father Karl Foitek and the Swiss businessman Peter Monteverdi bought the British team Onyx in March 1990 , which had recently failed due to political and economic problems. For the third race of the season, Gregor Foitek then took over Stefan Johansson's Onyx cockpit; his teammate became JJ Lehto . By the summer of 1990, he had reached two finishings with the increasingly outdated Onyx ORE-1B - the only ones in his Formula 1 career - but remained outside the points. Foitek's best result was seventh in Monaco . When the team did not develop positively and the cars were not being properly maintained, Karl Foitek withdrew his support from the team in August 1990 and Gregor Foitek terminated his contract with Monteverdi. As a result, Onyx-Monteverdi stopped Formula 1 operations before the Belgian Grand Prix .

A few days after separating from Monteverdi, Gregor Foitek also severed business relationships with his father, who had looked after him as a manager and supported him financially for many years. In the period that followed, Gregor Foitek was no longer able to get a driver's seat in Formula 1.

After his Formula 1 career, Foitek competed in two races in the US Champ Car series in 1992 , both of which he had to end with technical defects. Foitek last drew attention to himself in 2002 when he took part in the Ferrari Challenge . After his racing career ended, he began selling luxury vehicles.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1989	EuroBrun Racing	EuroBrun ER188B EuroBrun ER189	Judd CV 3.5 V8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rial Racing	Rial ARC2	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Motor Racing Developments	Brabham BT58	Judd EV 3.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Moneytron Onyx Formula One Monteverdi Onyx Formula One	Onyx ORE-1B	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1989
	DNQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ			DNQ
1990
	DNF	DNF	DNF	7 *	DNF	15th	DNQ	DNQ	DNF	DNQ

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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1991	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK	Tiff Needell	Tomas Lopez	failure	accident

Web links

• About Gregor Foitek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Motorsport news. Issue 12, 1990, ISSN  1421-8488 , p. 11.
2. ↑ In an interview with the Swiss specialist magazine Motorsport Aktuell in March 1990, Karl Foitek explicitly confirmed the finality: "Buying Onyx was cheaper than a Brabham ticket". See Motorsport Aktuell. Issue 12, 1990, p. 11.
3. ↑ Motorsport news. Issue 35, 1990, p. 5.