Michael Ammermüller

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Michael Ammermüller 2010
Michael Ammermüller as Friday test driver at Red Bull Racing
Michael Ammermüller at the Porsche Supercup race at the Red Bull Ring 2018
Ammermüller's Audi R8 LMS for Team Rosberg in the ADAC GT Masters

Michael Ammermüller (born February 14, 1986 in Passau ) is a German racing driver from Pocking .

Career

Beginnings in motorsport

Michael Ammermüller started his kart racing career at the age of 10, driving in Germany, Austria and Italy. In 2000 he won the European Junior Kart Championship.

In 2003 Ammermüller became a member of the Red Bull junior school and in 2004 he finished the German Formula Renault championship, driving for Jenzer Motorsport , with 5 podium places in third place. The following season he competed for the same team in the Formula Renault Eurocup and in the Italian Formula Renault championship and was each runner-up, with six wins in the European championship as many as master Kamui Kobayashi ; in Italian he got three. He was always the best driver in the Red Bull Junior Team.

Test driver job in Formula 1 and stagnation

The following year Michael Ammermüller drove in the GP2 series at Arden International and finished eleventh overall with a race win. In 2006 he was also used as a Friday test driver for Red Bull Racing at the last three Formula 1 Grand Prix in China, Japan and Brazil .

In the 2007 season Ammermüller switched to the GP2 master team ART Grand Prix of Nicolas Todt, the son of Jean Todt . After a scaphoid fracture in the first race of the season in Bahrain , the Pockinger had to pause for two race weekends. He started again in Magny-Cours and was involved in Ernesto Viso's accident . The following race at Silverstone was Ammermüller's last in the cockpit of ART .

Ammermüller continued his career in the Carlin Motorsport team in Formula Renault 3.5 . There he contested the races in Spa-Francorchamps , Donington Park and Magny-Cours, but could not convince.

In October 2007, Ammermüller's membership of the Red Bull Junior Team ended. From November he started in the A1GP series for the Germany team of Willi Weber , Michael Schumacher's manager . He showed changeable performances, with a sprint race victory in Zhuhai as the high point and two disqualifications in Sepang and Durban as the low point.

In 2008 Ammermüller competed in the International Formula Master for the Iris Project team , an offshoot of his former employer Jenzer Motorsport . With a race win he became “Rookie of the Year”, but missed the intended title win and thus the opportunity to recommend himself in a test of the Honda Racing F1 team.

At the beginning of the year he was used again in the German A1GP team , now led by Rolf Beisswanger , but could not score any points. In 2009 Ammermüller worked as a racing instructor at Zettl Motorsport . In 2010 he competed in the ADAC GT Masters with an Audi R8 LMS from Team Rosberg , achieved third place with Kenneth Heyer and finished the season in 12th place overall. For the 2011 season he switched to the a-workx-Akrapovic team , where he drove a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup together with Sebastian Asch .

On 27 August 2011, he won together with Frank Biela and Christian Hohenadel on, the much more powerful GT3 competition actually defeated, front-wheel drive Audi TT RS by Raeder Motorsport , the 6h ADAC Ruhr Cup race as part of the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring after by the trio had previously achieved their first pole position for a front-wheel drive car of the VLN in qualifying.

statistics

Career stations

  • 2004 - Formula Renault 2000 Euro Cup: Jenzer Motorsport, 11th , 64 points
  • 2004 - Formula Renault 2000 Germany: Jenzer Motorsport, 3rd , 238 points (5 podiums, 1 pole position, 2 fastest race laps)
  • 2004 - Formula Renault 2000 Italy: Jenzer Motorsport, 2 races (2 podiums, 1 pole position)
  • 2005 - Formula Renault 2000 Euro Cup: Jenzer Motorsport, 2nd , 149 points (6 wins, 10 podiums, 6 pole positions, 4 fastest race laps)
  • 2005 - Formula Renault 2000 Italy: Jenzer Motorsport, 2nd , 266 points (3 wins, 11 podiums, 1 pole position, 3 fastest race laps)
  • 2006 - GP2 series : Arden International, 11th , 25 points (1 win, 3 podiums)
  • 2006 - Formula 1 : Red Bull Racing, Friday test driver
  • 2007 - GP2 series: ART Grand Prix, 27th , 1 point (1 fastest race lap)
  • 2007 - Formula 1: Red Bull Racing, official test driver
  • 2007 - Formula Renault 3.5 : Carlin Motorsport, 22nd , 12 points (1 pole position)
  • 2007/08 - A1GP : Team Germany, 8th , 83 points (1 win, 2 podiums, 1 pole position; together with Christian Vietoris )
  • 2008 - International Formula Masters : Iris Project, 3rd , 74 points (1 win, 6 podiums)
  • 2008/09 - A1GP: Team Germany, 21st , 2 points (together with André Lotterer )
  • 2010 - ADAC GT Masters : Team Rosberg, 12th , 28 points (1 podium; together with Kenneth Heyer )
  • 2017 - ADAC GT Masters : KÜS TEAM75 Bernhard, 8th , 91 points (1 victory; together with Mathieu Jaminet )
  • 2017 - Porsche Supercup: Lechner MSG Racing Team, 1st , 193 points

Web links

Commons : Michael Ammermüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ammermüller drives IFM" (Motorsport-total.com on March 19, 2008)
  2. ↑ Biography: Michael Ammermüller gtmasters.org
  3. ↑ Points table: ADAC GT Masters - driver gtmasters.org
  4. ↑ Audi sensation at the 6h hell ride sportauto-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Ammermüller, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Pocking , Germany