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Jochen duration
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
DTM
First race: Siegerlandring 1985
Last race: Zolder I 1986
Teams (manufacturers)
1985 unknown team • 1986 Isert ( BMW )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
3 - - -
Podiums: -
Overall wins: -
Points: -
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

Jochen Dauer (born January 10, 1952 in Nuremberg ) is a German entrepreneur and former racing car driver .

Career

He was successful as a racing driver from the 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s with his Jochen Dauer Racing team in the Porsche 962C .

His racing career began in 1973 by starting hill climbs with an NSU TTS. From 1975 to 1981 he competed in a number of races in the Formula 3 EM and DM as well as in the Formula 2 EM and sporadically in the German racing championship on a BMW 320 Group 5 . In the Formula 2 European Championship, Dauer drove a few races for German private teams, most of whom used used British racing cars. In 1981 he competed in two races for the newly founded team GRS Motorsport , which used a self-constructed car. After a failure in Hockenheim, GRS ceased operations. In 1982 he competed in the Renault 5 Turbo Cup. In 1983 he started some races for the DRM and in the Interseries on a Porsche 908/3 Turbo. In 1984 and 1985 Jochen Dauer drove a few races in the Interseries and in the DRM for Gebhardt Motorsport and for the Zakspeed team as well as for Roy Baker Promotions Ford. In 1986, now with his own team, he drove a Zakspeed C1 / 8 in the Interseries and the Supercup a. For the 1987 season he bought his first Porsche 962, including spare parts and racing transporter, from John Fitzpatrick , who locked his racing team at the end of 1986, and drove in the FIA ​​World Sports Prototype Championship (WSPC), the Interseries and the Supercup until 1990, where as a special The highlight was his home race, which was held 200 miles from Nuremberg at the Norisring . There he put a second Porsche 962 to the start in 1988 for Chip Robinson and 1989 for John Andretti . Parallel to the events in Europe, he entered a Porsche 962 C in the IMSA racing series in 1990 , but never drove there himself. In 1991, Dauer brought two newly built Porsche 962 Cs to the Daytona 24H and left the two racing dynasties, the Andrettis and the Unsers , compete against each other. In total, after his 30-year career as a racing driver, Jochen Dauer has 100 wins in 500 starts.

1993 went from Jochen Dauer Racing the duration Sportwagen GmbH forth. There he developed the road-approved super sports car , the Dauer 962 LM, which is based on the Porsche 962 racing prototype . For the conversion, he used his own vehicles, unused chassis from Porsche and also purchased former racing cars. The racing version, the duration 962 LM GT, won the 1994 Le Mans 24H with drivers  Yannick Dalmas ,  Hurley Haywood  and  Mauro Baldi .

In 1997, a Franconian entrepreneur acquired the bankruptcy estate of Bugatti with the parts still available for the Bugatti EB110 and made this package available for sale as a loan from Dauer Sportwagen GmbH; Volkswagen AG took over the naming rights to Bugatti . The parts pool serves on the one hand to service the approximately 120 Bugatti EB 110s sold by the time the company was closed, and on the other hand it resulted in new sports cars for the American market under the name of Dauer.

In his spare time, Jochen Dauer takes part in dog shows at European and World Cup level with his giant schnauzers.

Since the beginning of 2010, Jochen Dauer had been in custody in Nuremberg. The prosecution accused him of tax evasion. On July 27, 2010, it was reported in the daily newspapers that Jochen Dauer had to go to prison for three and a half years for his tax evasion.

statistics

Sporting successes (selection)

  • 4th place German mountain championship
  • Formula 3
    • 1976: 2nd place Formula 3-DM (Avus race)
    • 1976: 5th place Formula 3 European Championship (Avus race)
    • 1978: 3 wins in Formula 3 DM
  • Interseries (1st Division)
    • 1988 winner of the Interserie drivers' championship with 2 wins (Most and Zeltweg II)
    • 1988 winner of the Interserie team classification
  • Supercup
    • 1989: 3rd place in the Nürburgring Eifel race
    • 1989: 2nd place Nürburgring Super Sprint

Web links

Commons : permanent vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program booklet drivers in the German championship On: www.programmhefte.com ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jochen duration (D) - Complete Archive - Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Power with duration MSa 09/2002
  4. ↑ Permanent sports car for the American market. In: VOX . Retrieved April 9, 2007 .
  5. ↑ Racing driver Jochen Duration: three and a half years in prison. In: evening newspaper . July 27, 2010, accessed November 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Duration, yokes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and car racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg