Jutta Kleinschmidt
Jutta Kleinschmidt (born August 29, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German rally raid driver.
The trained physicist is one of the world's most successful women in motorsport . She is the first and so far only woman to have won an overall ranking in the Dakar Rally : In 2001 she won the automobile classification of the race and thus only the second German victory to date after a German winner in the truck category in 1985.
Life
Jutta Kleinschmidt grew up in Berchtesgaden and went to school in Berchtesgaden , Freilassing and Traunstein , where she qualified for a technical college in 1981 . From 1982 to 1986 she studied physics engineering at the Natural Science and Technology Academy in Isny and graduated as a graduate engineer. She worked in vehicle development at BMW until 1992 , before starting her own business as a professional rally driver (rally raid, marathon rally).
In addition to her racing career, Kleinschmidt works as an instructor and keynote speaker.
Kleinschmidt lives in Monaco .
Racing driver
Kleinschmidt drove her first rally raid in 1987 on a motorcycle (the Pharaohs rally in Egypt ). In 1988 she started her first Paris-Dakar, also on a motorcycle. She celebrated her first victories on a motorcycle back in 1992, winning the women’s rankings in the Paris-Cape Town rally and the Pharaohs rally. In the same year, she started her car in the 24-hour races at the Nürburgring and in Spa-Francorchamps .
In 1993 she took part in the UAE Desert Challenge as co-driver of Jean-Louis Schlesser . A year later, she won the women’s championship in the Paris-Dakar on a motorcycle and again the Pharaohs rally, where she also finished fifth overall. At the UAE Desert Challenge in 1994, she won the production vehicle category with her Mitsubishi Pajero and came fourth overall. In the same and the following two years, she also took second place in the Marathon World Cup, in the two-wheel drive vehicle category.
In 1996 she won the women's championship at the Australian Safari and the UAE Desert Challenge. In 1997 she became the first woman to win a stage in the Paris-Dakar rally. In 1999 she drove the Marathon World Cup as a works driver for Ralliart . At the Dakar Rally that same year she finished third and was the first woman to get on the podium.
In 2000 she drove successfully in all important international marathon rallies of the FIA Marathonrallye Worldcup as a works driver for Ralliart. In the course of the year, the German Andreas Schulz replaced her long-time co-pilot Tina Thörner from Sweden. Kleinschmidt came second in the overall ranking of the World Cup.
In the course of 2001, Kleinschmidt switched from Ralliart Germany to Mitsubishi (MMC Japan) as a private driver . There she received a factory Pajero from the previous year, which was approx. 200 kg heavier than the current factory car. Nevertheless, in this most successful year of her racing career to date, she won the Paris-Dakar and Baja Italy rallies and came second in each of the Baja Portugal , the Morocco rally , the Master rally and the Por Las Pampas rally . In the marathon world cup she reached second place.
A year later she came second in the Dakar rally. In May 2002 she switched from Mitsubishi to Volkswagen as a works driver . On the VW Tarek , she and her new co-driver Fabrizia Pons from Italy could not repeat their previous successes. 2004 was not exactly a successful year either: with her racing model of the VW Touareg , she only came 21st in the overall ranking of the Dakar Rally despite a stage win. In the Morocco Rally , she finished fourth with co-driver Bobby Willis. In 2005 she finished third in the Dakar Rally.
Her contract with Volkswagen expired on January 31, 2006, and Volkswagen did not renew it. At the 2007 Dakar Rally, Kleinschmidt drove a BMW X3 CC for the X-Raid BMW team . In the rally she came in 15th place - again together with her former co-driver Tina Thörner.
In 2013 she started at the 41st ADAC Zurich 24-hour race on the Nürburgring in an Audi TTS for the “pro Handicap eV” team and finished the race in 113th place.
Honors
- "Engineers in Motion" award from the Association of German Engineers (VDI) , 2001
- Jury election for " ADAC Motorsport Woman of the Year ", 2001
- Viewers voted "ARD Sportswoman of the Year", 2001
- Readers' choice of "rally driver of the year" at Motorsport aktuell, 2001
- Lord Wakefield Trophy of the British Women Racing Drivers Club as "Outstanding Female Personality in Motorsport 2001"
literature
- My victory at the Dakar or what rallying and business have in common. Haufe, Freiburg u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-648-00300-8 .
- Petra Fohrmann: Jutta Kleinschmidt - women steer better than men think. Fohrmann Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810580-3-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Four women-only teams - that has never been done before" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 29, 2016 ( faz.net [accessed December 30, 2016]).
- ^ Profile of Jutta Kleinschmidt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 30, 2016 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinschmidt, Jutta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rally driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |