Norman Simon

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Norman Simon (born May 7, 1976 in Wiesbaden ) is a former German racing driver .

Racing career

Norman Simon drove in kart races as a teenager . In 1991 he won the title in the German Junior Kart Championship . (Third place in the championship was Dirk Müller ). About the Formula Ford the career path led Monopostosport in the Formula Opel . In 1996 he and Pierre Kaffer won the Nations Cup for Team Germany. Until 1999 he was active in various Formula 3 series . In 1997 he finished fifth overall in the German Formula 3 Championship, behind Nick Heidfeld , Timo Scheider , Alexander Müller and Wolf Henzler . In 1999 he drove five races in the International Formula 3000 Championship for Coloni Motorsport , but was unsuccessful.

In 2000, Simon switched to sports and touring car racing . He competed in the American Le Mans Series , the FIA GT Championship and in Japan in the Super GT . In 2002 he finished second in the production car class of the British Touring Car Championship, behind James Kaye . Norman Simon started in both the Sebring 12 Hours and the Le Mans 24 Hours , but was unable to place in a total of five races.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2002 NetherlandsNetherlands Spyker Cars NV Spyker C8 Double-12R NetherlandsNetherlands Peter Kox NetherlandsNetherlands Hans Hugenholtz Junior failure Engine failure
2003 NetherlandsNetherlands ST Team Orange Spyker Spyker C8 Double-12R NetherlandsNetherlands Tom Coronel NetherlandsNetherlands Hans Hugenholtz Junior not classified

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2000 GermanyGermany Pole team Riley & Scott Mk III GermanyGermany Günther Blieninger United StatesUnited States Mark Simo failure Clutch damage
2001 GermanyGermany RWS Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-R AustriaAustria Dieter Quester AustriaAustria Philipp Peter failure suspension
2003 NetherlandsNetherlands Spyker Squadron Spyker C8 Double 12R NetherlandsNetherlands Hans Hugenholtz Junior BelgiumBelgium Patrick van Schoote failure Engine failure

Web links

Commons : Norman Simon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Junior Kart Championship 1991
  2. ^ Formula Opel Lotus Nations Cup 1996
  3. ^ German Formula 3 Championship 1997
  4. ↑ International Formula 3000 Championship 1999
  5. ↑ Norman in Formula 3000 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / inside-racing.de
  6. ↑ British Touring Car Championship 2002
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden