Markus Winkelhock

Markus Winkelhock

Nation:	Germany
DTM
First race:	Hockenheimring 2004
Teams (manufacturers)
2004 Persson ( Mercedes-Benz ) • 2007 Abt , Futurecom · 2008–2010 Rosberg (all Audi )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 49 - - -
Podiums:	-
Overall wins:	-
Points:	24

Markus Winkelhock

Nation:	Germany
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2007 European Grand Prix
Last start:	2007 European Grand Prix
Constructors
2007 Spyker
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	6 over 30.9 km

Markus Winkelhock (born June 13, 1980 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a German automobile racing driver . He is the son of the racing driver Manfred Winkelhock, who died in an accident in 1985 and the nephew of Joachim and Thomas Winkelhock .

Career

Winkelhock in German Formula 3 in 2002

Markus Winkelhock at the DTM season opener 2009 at the Hockenheimring

Markus Winkelhock's career began in 1998 in Formula König . After two years in Formula Renault , he drove Formula 3 until 2003 . In 2004 he started for the Persson Motorsport team in an AMG - Mercedes-Benz CLK in the DTM , but then switched back to the monoposto at the end of the season, this time in the heavily motorized World Series version of Formula Renault and came third in the championship.

For 2006 Winkelhock signed a contract as a test driver with the Formula 1 team MF1 Racing . A total of four times he got into the Midland racing car at Friday training sessions and made a respectable impression.

This prompted the Midland successor team, Spyker , to sign Winkelhock as a test driver again in 2007.

In 2007 Winkelhock drove in the DTM for injured Audi driver Tom Kristensen on the EuroSpeedway and at Brands Hatch. From Mugello he replaced Adam Carroll , who switched back to the GP2 series .

On July 22, 2007 Markus Winkelhock was to replace the dismissed at Spyker Christijan Albers at European Grand Prix on the Nürburgring his debut in the Formula 1 World Championship. There he took the lead after the onset of rain on the second lap, as he was the only one who started out of the pit lane on rain tires after the introductory lap. He was able to hold this position for six laps, but fell back to 15th place after a break in the race and then had to end the race due to technical problems.

From 2008 to 2010 Winkelhock drove in the DTM for Team Rosberg with a previous year's model of the Audi A4. With 6 points he reached 12th place in the drivers' standings at the end of the season in 2008. In the following year Winkelhock was able to improve again and finished tenth in the championship with two fourth places and eleven points, ahead of Mercedes-Benz new car driver Ralf Schumacher . In 2011 Winkelhock no longer competes in the DTM as he no longer received a contract from Audi.

In 2011 and 2012 Markus Winkelhock drove in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Team Münnich Motorsport. In the 2011 season he drove a Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670 RS-V. In 2012 he became driver and team world champion in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 .

From June 26, 2012 to May 12, 2017, Markus Winkelhock held the lap record for electrically powered series vehicles on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with 8: 09.099 , set up in an Audi R8 e-tron. Afterwards, Markus Winkelhock also set the record for two consecutive laps in an electrically powered vehicle with 16: 56.969, also in an Audi R8 e-tron.

In 2017 Winkelhock won the 24-hour race on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring in the Land Team with de Phillippi / Mies / van der Linde in an Audi R8 LMS . Just a few weeks later, he was also able to win the 24-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. He drove the winning R8 LMS together with Christopher Haase and Jules Gounon . It's his second success after winning in 2014.

Trivia

Former Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug was the best man at the wedding of Winkelhock's parents.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2007	Etihad Aldar Spyker F1 Team	Spyker F8-VII	Ferrari 2.4 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
2007
										DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Spencer Pumpelly	Alessandro Latif	Nelson Canache	Rank 33

Web links

Commons : Markus Winkelhock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Markus Winkelhock

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsport-total.com
3. ↑ http://www.evocars-magazin.de/2012/06/29/audi-r8-e-tron-neuer-rekord-auf-der-nordschleife/
4. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/auto/news/2017/05/nio-ep9-2017-rundenrekord-auf-der-nuerburgring-nordschleife-17051701.html
5. ↑ The Winkelhock family comes full circle