Klaus Niedzwiedz
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 Germany
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| First race: | Berlin 1985 | ||||||||
| Last race: | Donington 1991 | ||||||||
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| 1985–1986 HWRT • 1987 Wolf Racing • 1988 Ringshausen • 1989 Eggenberger (all Ford) • 1990 Irmscher • 1991 Eggenberger (both Opel) | |||||||||
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| Podiums: | 16 | ||||||||
| Overall wins: | - | ||||||||
| Points: | 531 | ||||||||
Klaus Niedzwiedz (born February 24, 1951 in Dortmund ) is a German automobile racing driver and television presenter .
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Career
Racing
Niedzwiedz's career began with the Mini Cooper and Formula Vee before he finally became a works driver at Ford in 1979 .
He gained fame with a Zakspeed Ford Capri in the German racing championship . The turbo-charged engine with 1.4 liter displacement was later used for the 1.8 liter Super-Capri . With this car with up to 650 hp and a top speed of 300 km / h, Niedzwiedz holds the all -time training course record for Group 5 cars on the old circuit of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife . In 1982 he needed 7: 08.590 minutes and an average speed of just under 192 km / h on the 22.835 km long track, only about 10 seconds more than Niki Lauda , who in 1975 with a Formula 1 Ferrari during training for the German Grand Prix achieved a best time of 6: 58.400 minutes, the fastest lap on the Nordschleife of all time for a Formula 1 racing car.
In 1982 ( Ford Capri ) and 1987 ( Ford Sierra Cosworth ) he won the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring together with Klaus Ludwig . In 1987 he was runner-up in the World Touring Car Championship and in 1989 in the German Touring Car Championship .
In 1998 he won the privateer driver classification of the Super Touring Car Cup with an Opel Vectra . In 2003 he won a run of the VLN in a Porsche 911 GT3 , in 2005 the n-tv - Honda NSX -R, driven by Niedzwiedz, among others, achieved 12th place overall and class victory in the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring.
In 1988 he drove a Sauber C9 at Le Mans , although he survived a blown tire during training only by luck at 390 km / h. He also competed in the 24-hour races in 1981 and 1982.
journalist
Since 1984 Niedzwiedz has also worked as a journalist and television presenter. Starting with the moderation of the motor magazine “ Treibstoff” on Sat.1 , he has been working for n-tv-Motor on n-tv since 1997 and as a co-moderator for ZDF since 2003 . Since 2009 he has also produced the magazine NRW-mobil for the broadcaster NRW-TV. In this magazine, Klaus Niedzwiedz presents new automobiles. He also moderates the n-tv-TopCars magazine at n-tv. Klaus Niedzwiedz is one of the few engine moderators who can look back on a long period of active motorsport.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1981 |
Joest Racing
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Porsche 908/80 |
 Dale Whittington
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Reinhold Joest
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failure | accident |
| 1982 |
Fordwerke AG
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Ford C100 |
Manfred Winkelhock
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failure | Engine failure |
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| SURNAME | Niedzwiedz, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing driver and TV commentator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |