Patrick Assenheimer

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Patrick Assenheimer (born April 28, 1992 in Heilbronn ) is a German automobile racing driver and trained mechatronics technician .

Career

Long distance championship

Patrick Assenheimer began his motorsport career in touring car racing. He started in 2011 for the Autoarena Motorsport team with a Mercedes-Benz C 230 V6 in the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring and in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring , which he finished with a victory in the V4 class. He was able to repeat the result four times in a row in the following years up to 2015. In 2017 and 2018 he started with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring in the GT3 class.

In 2013 he drove one season in the Mini Trophy for the Petronas-Assenheimer Racing team and achieved fifth place overall in the annual ranking.

ADAC GT Masters

He has been competing in the ADAC GT Masters since 2014 . In the first two years he drove a Corvette Z06-R GT3 from Callaway Competition together with Diego Alessi . In the 2016 season he drove a Corvette C7 GT3-R with Dominik Schwager and came tenth in the overall ranking and third in the Junior Trophy classification. He contested the ADAC GT Masters with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

In 2015 he drove a Mercedes-AMG GT3 for one season in the Blancpain GT Series in the Endurance Cup in the Pro classification. In the same year he achieved a double victory in a Corvette GT3 at the DMV Grand Turismo Touring Car Cup at the Nürburgring.

Assenheimer competed as a guest starter in several 24-hour endurance races in Barcelona , Dubai , Paul Ricard and Spa-Francorchamps as part of the Hankook 24H Series from 2015 to 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Autoarena - website: Patrick Assenheimer. At: www.autoarena.de , accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  2. Auto Arena - website: The employee project. At: www.autoarena.de , accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  3. a b c d e DriverDB website: Patrick Assenheimer. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed January 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ ADAC website: Official website of the ADAC GT Masters - ADAC Motorsport. At: www.adac-gt-masters.de , accessed on August 5, 2016 .
  5. DMV website: News: Race 2: One-two for Patrick Assenheimer. At: www.dmv-gtc.de , accessed on August 5, 2016 .