Lucas Auer

Lucas Auer

Nation:	Austria
DTM
First race:	Hockenheim I 2015
Last race:	Hockenheim II 2018
Teams (manufacturers)
2015 ART  • 2016 Mücke  • 2017–2018 HWA (all Mercedes )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 73 4th 9 2
Podiums:	10
Overall wins:	-
Points:	343

Lucas Auer (born September 11, 1994 in Tyrol ) is an Austrian racing car driver . He won the championship title in the JK Racing Asia Series in 2011 . In 2012 he was runner-up in German Formula 3 . In 2013 and 2014 he started in the European Formula 3 championship . From 2015 to 2018 he competed for Mercedes in the DTM .

Career

Beginnings in karting (2001-2010)

Auer began his motorsport career in karting in 2001 at the age of seven . In his first two years he drove in the Tyrolean kart championship, which he finished with second place (2001) and the championship title (2002). In 2003 he switched to the Bavarian Kart Championship, which he finished with eighth place. From 2004 to 2007 he drove in the German DMV Kart Championship. There he rose from fourth place in 2004 to second in 2005 and finally won the championship in this series in 2006 and 2007.

In 2009 and 2010 he competed in the German Junior Kart Championship , which he finished in 2010 with second place behind Christian Sørensen .

Formula racing (2011-2014)

Lucas Auer (2014)

In 2011 Auer switched to formula racing in the JK Racing Asia Series , the successor series to the Pacific Formula BMW , at EuroInternational . He won 7 out of 18 races and was only off the podium once. With 292 to 285 points, he won the championship before Afiq Ikhwan Yazid . He also took part in two races of the Formula Pilota China Series and achieved a podium finish. After the season, Auer took part in test drives in the German Formula 3 Cup for Van Amersfoort Racing in Valencia from December 12th to 14th .

At the beginning of 2012 Auer competed in the Toyota Racing Series , the highest monoposto series in New Zealand, for Giles Motorsport . He started the first two races from pole position , but failed to cross the finish line on both occasions and thus fell back in the overall standings. In the following races he achieved better results and finally finished the last seven races within the first five drivers. A second place was his best result. While his team-mates Nick Cassidy and Hannes van Asseldonk occupied the first two positions, Auer finished the season as the third-best driver of his team in sixth place in the drivers' standings. He also won the rookie title . Auer then took part in the 2012 German Formula 3 Cup for Van Amersfoort Racing. Auer won two races and was on the podium eleven times. With 298 to 408 he was defeated by Jimmy Eriksson and was runner-up as the best newcomer. In addition, he made three guest starts for Van Amersvoort Racing in the Formula 3 Euro Series and took part in the Macau Grand Prix .

At the beginning of the 2013 season , Auer started again for Giles Motorsport in the New Zealand Toyota Racing Series. In the meantime, Auer led the overall standings with two wins. At the end of the season he was third overall with a total of six podium finishes. He then competed in the European Formula 3 championship in 2013 for the Prema Powerteam , the master racing team from the previous year. With a win and nine further podium finishes, Auer finished the season fourth in the overall standings. He lost to Raffaele Marciello and Alex Lynn within the team . In addition, debuted Auer in 2013 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and took for by Kodewa supervised Lotus part in a race in the LMP2 class team.

In 2014 Auer switched to Mücke Motorsport within the European Formula 3 championship . He won three races and was on the podium of another ten. As the best driver of his team, he was again fourth in the drivers' championship. He also finished second behind his team-mate Felix Rosenqvist at the Macau Grand Prix . In addition, Auer started three races in the LMP1 class for Lotus in the 2014 WEC. He was 24th in the driver's world championship.

DTM (2015-2018)

ART Grand Prix (2015)

For the 2015 season, Auer switched to the DTM . He received a Mercedes cockpit at the ART Grand Prix and chose 22 as his starting number. After a moderate start to the season, he was able to score points for the first time in the Sunday race in Nuremberg . He achieved his first pole position in the DTM at the Nürburgring . At the end of the season he finished 23rd overall as the worst Mercedes driver.

Mücke Motorsport (2016)

Lucas Auer at the Hockenheimring (2016)

For the 2016 DTM season , Auer returned to Mücke Motorsport through a move within the Mercedes team. In Sunday's race at the Lausitzring , he scored his first DTM victory from pole position, which was also the only victory for Mücke Motorsport in the DTM. He achieved another pole position at the Nürburgring and finished second on the podium in the race. He finished the season in twelfth place in the drivers' championship.

HWA (2017-2018)

Because Mücke left the DTM at the end of 2016 due to the reduction in the number of vehicles per manufacturer from eight to six, Auer competed for HWA in 2017 . At the opening race in Hockenheim he achieved his second DTM victory and thus took the lead in the overall standings for the first time. With another victory on the following race weekend in Lausitz, he kept it until the sixth race in Mogyoród , where he had to hand it over to René Rast . In the further course of the season Auer was only rarely able to build on his performance at the beginning of the year, but he scored his third win of the season at the Nürburgring. At the end of the year, he finished sixth in the overall standings as the best Mercedes driver.

In 2018 Auer stayed at HWA. At the beginning of the season he finished second on the podium at Hockenheim and achieved a pole position at the Lausitzring. He also came second in Saturday's race on the Hungaroring . In Zandvoort and Brands Hatch , he achieved further podium positions - each in third place in Saturday's races. At the end of the season he was in seventh place in the drivers' standings.

Super Formula (2019)

In December 2018 it was announced that Lucas Auer would be competing in the Japanese Super Formula Championship for the B-Max Racing Team in the 2019 season . After Mercedes left the DTM at the end of the 2018 season, the Austrian no longer had a cockpit. The B-Max Racing Team is part of the Red Bull junior program. In the race at Sportsland SUGO , Auer was able to achieve the only podium in third place. He also drove the fastest race lap there. He finished the season in ninth place overall. In December 2019 it was announced that Auer is no longer part of the Red Bull junior program.

Return to the DTM (from 2020)

After a season in the Japanese Super Formula Championship, Lucas Auer is returning to the DTM. He will drive one of the six BMW M4 DTMs in the 2020 season .

Personal

Lucas Auer is the nephew of the former Formula 1 racing driver Gerhard Berger . He is the son of Berger's sister Claudia, who runs a transport company in Wörgl in Tyrol.

statistics

Career stations

2001-2010: karting 2011: JK Racing Asia Series (champions) 2011: Formula Pilota China Series (15th place) 2012 : Toyota Racing Series (6th place) 2012 : German Formula 3 (2nd place)

2013 : Toyota Racing Series (3rd place) 2013 : European Formula 3 (4th place) 2013 : WEC 2014 : European Formula 3 (4th place)

2014 : WEC (24th place) 2015 : DTM (23rd place) 2016 : DTM (12th place) 2017 : DTM (6th place) 2018 : DTM (7th place)

Individual results in the Toyota Racing Series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	Points	rank
2012	Giles Motorsport	INV			TIM			DEW			HMP			MAN			589	6th
		DNF	DNF	14th	6th	15th	14th	7th	6th	5	4th	2	5	4th	4th	3
2013	Giles Motorsport	INV			TIM			DEW			HMP			MAN			797	3.
		1	5	2	1	5	2	5	3	16	5	3	4th	4th	14th	6th

Individual results in the German Formula 3 Cup

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	Points	rank
2012	Van Amersfoort Racing	Volkswagen	ZAN			SAC			OSC			SPA			ASS			SPI			LAU			ONLY			HOC			298	2.
			2	DNS	4th	6th	DNF	2	4th	9	2	5	DNF	5	9	4th	2	5	1	2	4th	4th	1	2	4th	2	8th	2	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	31	32	33	Points	rank
2013	Prema Powerteam	Mercedes	MON			SIL			HO1			BRH			SPI			NOR			ONLY			ZAN			VAL			HO2						277	4th
			2	DNF	4th	4th	3	7th	7th	4th	12	3	3	1	10	4th	3	13	13	6th	5	5	2	7th	12	7th	7th	5	DNF	26th	3	3
2014	kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport	Mercedes	SIL			HO1			PAU			HUN			SPA			NOR			MOS			SPI			ONLY			IMO			HO2			365	4th
			5	12	8th	1	4th	4th	2	7th	6th	4th	3	3	2	DNF	21st	3	3	8th	5	4th	DNF	10	3	3	7th	5	1	6th	5	8th	2	3	1

Statistics in the DTM

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the DTM .

general overview

season	team	Manufacturer	vehicle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	Item
2015	ART Grand Prix	Mercedes	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	17th	-	-	-	1	-	18th	23.
2016	Mücke Motorsport	Mercedes	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	18th	1	1	-	2	-	68	12.
2017	HWA	Mercedes	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	18th	3	1	-	3	-	136	6th
2018	HWA	Mercedes	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	20th	-	2	2	3	2	121	7th
total				73	4th	4th	2	9	2	343

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
2015	HO1		LAU		NOR		ZAN		SPI		MOS		OSC		ONLY		HO2
	DNF	DNS	21st	21 *	15th	9	17th	20th	21st	6th	13	19th	15th	17th	6th	19th	17th	20th
2016	HO1		SPI		LAU		NOR		ZAN		MOS		ONLY		HUN		HO2
	17 *	15 *	21st	16	7th	1	13	5	12	9	18th	10	7th	2	16	15th	18th	16
2017	HO1		LAU		HUN		NOR		MOS		ZAN		ONLY		SPI		HO2
	1 1	4th	1 1	10	12	DNF	DNF	2	6th	8th	15th	14th	1 1	13	8th	DNF	8th	10
2018	HO1		LAU		HUN		NOR		ZAN		BRH		MIS		ONLY		SPI		HO2
	2	15th	4 1	14th	2 3	DSQ 1	7th	5 3	3	9	3 2	8th	DNF	DNF	11	18 *	6th	DNF	DNF 1	16

( Legend )

Web links

• Career statistics by Lucas Auer (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Lucas Auer" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (afos.com; accessed December 17, 2011) 
2. ↑ "Berger's nephew tests Formula 3" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 16, 2011)
3. ↑ “RECORD INTERNATIONAL TRS ENTRY” (toyotaracing.co.nz on December 12, 2011)
4. ↑ "Berger's nephew debuts in the Formula 3 Cup" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 12, 2012)
5. ↑ “LUCAS AUER TO RETURN FOR 2013 TOYOTA RACING SERIES”. toyotaracing.co.nz, November 2, 2012, accessed March 4, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Robert Seiwert: "Formula 3 EM - Perfect: Auer drives for Prema Powerteam in 2013". Successor to master found. Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 15, 2013, accessed March 3, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Christian Schrader: "Mücke relies on Auer". Motorsport-Total.com, December 10, 2013, accessed January 17, 2014 . 
8. ↑ DTM - Lucas Auer starts 2015 for Mercedes. From the Macau podium to the DTM. Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 29, 2015, accessed January 29, 2015 . 
9. ↑ mathias.kainz: Why DTM star Lucas Auer is moving to Japan. Retrieved May 28, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Driver Standings | Race Calendar 2019 | SUPER FORMULA Official Website. Retrieved December 18, 2019 . 
11. ↑ sport.ORF.at. Retrieved December 18, 2019 . 
12. ^ "Behind the scenes at Sepang" (autosport.com; accessed December 17, 2011)