Manuel Reuter

This article is about the racing driver Manuel Reuter. For the musician of the same name see DJ Manian .

Manuel Reuter, 2010

Manuel Reuter (born December 6, 1961 in Mainz ) is a former German automobile racing driver .

Career

Manuel Reuter began his career in karting in the 1970s . On June 2, 1985, Reuter drove his first DTM racing car, a Ford Sierra XR4Ti. The first podium place followed three months later at the Nürburgring , and the first race victory a year later. Together with Bernd Schneider and Frank Biela , he formed the junior team at Ford .

Reuter in the Opel Astra V8 Coupe (2002)

From the end of 1989 to 1997 he was looked after as manager by the former Formula 1 world champion Keke Rosberg .

In 1988 he decided to pursue a sports car career parallel to the DTM. He drove for a year in the Brun-Porsche and in 1989 went to Mercedes-Benz to drive the 24-hour race at Le Mans . He won this immediately in the same year together with Jochen Mass and Stanley Dickens in the Sauber C9 .

At the end of 1992, Manuel Reuter returned to the DTM via the Opel test driver. Here he was closely involved in the development of the Opel Calibra V6.

Peak of his career was the year in 1996. He won with a previous of his DTM Team Joest used TWR - sports car with Porsche -Motor for the second time after 1989, the 24-hour race at Le Mans . Furthermore, in the same year he won three victories and six other podium places in the international ITC championship in an Opel Calibra V6.

Together with Volker Strycek , Timo Scheider and Marcel Tiemann , he won the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring in a DTM-Opel Astra G V8 in 2003 .

When Opel left the DTM at the end of the 2005 season, Manuel Reuter ended his racing career after 203 races in this series. However, he continues to work as a brand ambassador and driving trainer for Opel and the Opel Performance Center . He is also involved in the development of the OPC models and was active from 2007 to 2013 - as the successor to Klaus Ludwig as co-commentator on the DTM broadcasts on ARD .

Since the summer of 2014, Reuter has been the spokesman for the DTMDA (DTM Drivers Association) established by the active DTM drivers . Manuel Reuter has been a member of the FIA ​​Drivers' Commission since 2016.

Others

Manuel Reuter, 2012

At the wheel of an Opel Astra H OPC, at the end of October 2005, he undercut the class course record on the Nürburgring by four seconds with 8: 35.93 minutes. This record drive under the motto technology transfer from the racetrack to the street was elaborately staged (various cameras on the car and on the track, helicopter shots) and finally on a DVD with the title Pure Passion , which u. a. Contains inboard recordings with superimposed measurement data, aerial photos and the complete round from the cockpit perspective, widely used as a marketing tool.

Manuel Reuter has been running his own event agency Driving Performance by Manuel Reuter GmbH since 2006 , which was responsible for the preparation and implementation of the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring 2008 on behalf of OPC.

In September 2008, Reuter secured seventh place in his age group with a time of 5:08 hours and place 168 in the overall ranking of the Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Wiesbaden. With this achievement, he qualified for a place at the World Cup in Florida the following November. In August 2012 Manuel Reuter became European champion in his age group Ironman middle distance (70.3) with a time of 4:57 hours. In the same year he also won the Green Hell Triathlon at the Nürburgring and the TriStar 111 Monaco in his age group.

Private

Reuter is married and has one daughter. Triathlon is one of his hobbies .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1988	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Walter Lechner senior	Franz Hunkeler	failure	accident
1989	Team Sauber Mercedes	Clean C9	Jochen Mass	Stanley Dickens	Overall victory
1990	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962 GTi	JJ Lehto	James Weaver	failure	Fire
1991	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962 CK6	JJ Lehto	Harri Toivonen	Rank 9
1992	Kremer Porsche Racing	Porsche 962 CK6	John Nielsen	Giovanni Lavaggi	Rank 7
1993	Joest Porsche Racing	Porsche 962 C.	Louis Krages	Frank Jelinski	failure	Engine failure
1996	Joest Racing	TWR-Porsche WSC-95	Alexander Wurz	Davy Jones	Overall victory

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1993	Joest Porsche Racing	Porsche 962C	Chip Robinson	Louis Krages	failure	accident

More Achievements

• 1981
  • Participation in the European Kart Championship (6th place overall)
• 1983
  • Participation in the Formula Ford 1600 DM and EM (3rd overall, 6 wins)
• 1984
  • German Formula Ford 2000 Champion; Team Henny Vollenberg VIT
• 1985
  • German Formula 3 (4th overall)
  • European FIA Formula 3 Cup in the VW works team (7th overall)
• 1986
  • German Formula 3 (4th overall)
  • DTM with Ford; Team Ringshausen (7th overall)
• 1987
  • DTM with Ford; Team Ringshausen (runner-up)
• 1988
  • Prototype and sports car world championship on Brun- Porsche; several times best Porsche driver
• 1989
  • DTM with Mercedes (Team Mass / Schons) (6th overall)
  • Victory of the Le Mans 24-hour race in a Sauber-Mercedes with Jochen Mass and Stanley Dickens
• 1990
  • Sports car world championship with Lloyd-Porsche in England
• 1991
  • Sports car world championship with Team Porsche Kremer
  • Test driver in the Opel Schübel team
• 1992
  • Interserie / USA with Porsche Kremer
  • 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Kremer Porsche with Harri Toivonen and John Nielsen (9th place)
  • Opel test pilot
• 1993
  • IMSA-GTP series with Joest-Porsche (victory in Laguna Seca / USA)
  • 12-hour race IMSA GT race Sebring / USA
  • 24 hours from Daytona / USA
  • 24 Hours of Le Mans with Frank Jelinski and " John Winter "
  • sporadic appearances in the ADAC GT Cup with Joest Porsche;
  • Opel works pilot; First use of the Class 1 Calibra in the DTM at Hockenheim
• 1994
  • Opel works driver in the DTM with Calibra V6 (Opel Team Joest)
  • Participation in the Porsche Supercup for the Porsche Center Koblenz
• 1995
  • Opel works driver in the DTM / ITC in a Calibra V6 (Opel Team Joest) (5th overall in the ITC and 12th in the DTM)
• 1996
  • International Touring Car Champion (ITC) as Opel works driver in a Calibra V6 (Opel Team Joest)
  • Victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race with Alexander Wurz and D. Jones (Team Joest Porsche WSC)
• 1997
  • Opel works driver in the ADAC STW Super Tourenwagen Cup Deutschland in an Opel Vectra in the Opel Team SMS (17th overall)
• 1998
  • Opel works driver in the ADAC STW in an Opel Vectra in the Opel Team SMS (5th overall and victory for Opel in the brand classification)
• 1999
  • Opel works driver in the ADAC STW in an Opel Vectra in the Opel Team Holzer (6th overall)
• 2000
  • Opel works driver in an Opel Astra V8 Coupe in the Opel Team Phoenix (runner-up)
• 2001
  • Opel works driver in the DTM in an Opel Astra V8 Coupe in the Opel Team Phoenix (9th overall)
• 2002
  • Opel works driver in the DTM in an Opel Astra V8 Coupe (10th overall)
• 2003
  • Opel works driver in the DTM in an Opel Vectra GTS V8 (10th overall)
  • Victory in the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring with Opel in an Opel Astra V8 Coupe
• 2004
  • Opel works driver in the DTM in an Opel Vectra GTS V8 (12th overall; 3rd place in the race in Oschersleben )
• 2005
  • Opel works driver in the DTM in an Opel Vectra GTS V8 (17th place overall; 5th place in the race at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz ) and 3rd place in the snowmobile race in Sindelfingen

Web links

Commons : Manuel Reuter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Manuel Reuter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuel Reuter as spokesman: DTM drivers found union , www.zeit.de, accessed on December 10, 2014