Andy Priaulx
Nation: | United Kingdom | ||||||||
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First race: | Hockenheimring I 2012 | ||||||||
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2012 RBM • 2013 RMG (all BMW ) | |||||||||
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Podiums: | - | ||||||||
Overall wins: | - | ||||||||
Points: | 34 | ||||||||
Status: end of season 2013 |
Andrew "Andy" Graham Priaulx , MBE (born August 8, 1973 in Guernsey ) is a British racing driver . He was active in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) and three-time world champion in this series. Priaulx is currently under contract with Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK and has been competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship since 2016 . In October 2008 he was awarded the fifth degree of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his charitable work.
Career
Andrew Priaulx is a very versatile motor sportsman, but above all in the area on four wheels, in which he made his kart debut in 1984. In 1995 Priaulx then started in the British hill climb championship , where he immediately became champion.
From 1996 to 1998 he alternately drove Formula Renault and Formula 3 , before he switched to the Renault Spider Cup at the end of 1998 and became the superior champion there in 1999. After a brief stint in Formula 3 (sixth in the year), he devoted himself to touring car racing from 2001 and ended the 2002 season with three wins. In 2003 Priaulx started for the BMW Team Great Britain in the European Touring Car Championship , where he was able to continue his successes from the British Touring Car Championship and finally finished the season in third place.
2004 should be his year in the ETCC. Priaulx showed consistently good performances all year round and kept his title chances until the finals in Dubai ( United Arab Emirates ). There he profited from the bad luck of his worst competitor Dirk Müller , who was involved in a collision in the first race and therefore had to start from very far back in the second race. Priaulx, on the other hand, did not suffer any damage and after the last race managed to be tied with Müller in first place overall. However, since he was able to book five victories of the season in the final accounts (in contrast to Müller, who only won three times), the title of European touring car champion 2004 went to him.
The series was dissolved in 2005, but Priaulx and his team, the Belgian RBM team, which entered under the registration of BMW Great Britain, competed in the newly founded WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) , as did many of the other ETCC teams . This year was supposed to be another duel between Priaulx and Müller, which the Briton left as the winner after a spectacular final and from now on could call himself World Touring Car Champion. He also won the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring together with Pedro Lamy , Boris Said and Duncan Huisman .
In 2006, Priaulx competed in the WTCC again in his fifth touring car season and defended his world title at the season finale in Macau . He was able to defend this title in Macau in the 2007 season , although his chances after a 12th place in the qualification were significantly lower.
In 2012 and 2013, Priaulx competed in the DTM with a BMW M3 for BMW Team RBM . In 2014 he drove for BMW Motorsport and BMW Team RLL in the US United SportsCar Championship (USCC). In 2015 he drove a BMW 125i M Sport in the British Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).
After 13 years with BMW Motorsport, Andy Priaulx switched to Ford Performance, the Ford works team, for the 2016 season. He will compete in a Ford GT in the GTE Pro class - including the LeMans 24h . His teammates are Marino Franchitti (the younger brother of multiple IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti ), Olivier Pla and the very experienced sports car driver Stefan Mücke .
Personal
Priaulx lives on Guernsey with his wife Joanne and two children.
He spends his free time water skiing and cycling. In the meantime, one meets him less often in his former passion, sport boating .
statistics
successes
- 2004: European Touring Car Champion (ETCC)
- 2005: World Touring Car Champion (WTCC)
- 2006: World Touring Car Champion (WTCC)
- 2007: World Touring Car Champion (WTCC)
- 2008: 4th place in the drivers' championship (WTCC)
- 2009: 4th place in the drivers' championship (WTCC)
- 2010: 4th place in the drivers' championship (WTCC)
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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2010 | BMW Motorsport | BMW M3 GT2 | Dirk Mueller | Dirk Werner | failure | malfunction |
2011 | BMW Motorsport | BMW M3 GT2 | Dirk Mueller | Joey hand | Rank 15 | |
2016 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford GT | Marino Franchitti | Harry Tincknell | Rank 40 | |
2017 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford GT | Luís Felipe Derani | Harry Tincknell | Rank 18 | |
2018 | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing | Ford GT | Tony Kanaan | Harry Tincknell | Rank 30 | |
2019 | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing UK | Ford GT | Jonathan Bomarito | Harry Tincknell | Rank 23 |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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2010 | BMW Rahal Letterman Racing | BMW M3 E92 | Joey hand | Dirk Mueller | Rank 8 | ||
2011 | BMW Motorsport | BMW M3 E92 GT | Joey hand | Dirk Mueller | Rank 10 | ||
2014 | BMW Team RLL | BMW Z4 GTLM | Joey hand | Bill Auberlen | Rank 14 | ||
2015 | Turner Motorsport | BMW Z4 GTE | Boris Said III | Michael Marsal | Markus Palttala | Rank 25 |
Individual results in the DTM
season | team | Manufacturer | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | Points | rank |
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2012 | BMW Team RBM | BMW | HO1 | LAU | BRH | SPI | NOR | ONLY | ZAN | OSC | VAL | HO2 | 24 | 13. |
6th | 17th | DNF | DNF | 7th | 19th | 13 | 17 * | 8th | 7th | |||||
2013 | BMW Team RMG | BMW | HO1 | BRH | SPI | LAU | NOR | MOS | ONLY | OSC | ZAN | HO2 | 10 | 20th |
17 * | 19th | 19th | 22nd | 9 | 20th | 16 | 19th | 20th | 6th |
Legend | ||
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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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ As a citizen of one of the Channel Islands , he has a British Citizenship Passport (States of Guernsey Passport) and starts with a British racing driver license from the Motor Sports Association - United Kingdom (MSA) .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Priaulx, Andy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Priaulx, Andrew Graham (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | guernsey |