Andy Priaulx

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Andy Priaulx
Andy Priaulx 2007
Nation: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
DTM
First race: Hockenheimring I 2012
Teams (manufacturers)
2012 RBM • 2013 RMG (all BMW )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
20th - - -
Podiums: -
Overall wins: -
Points: 34
Status: end of season 2013
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

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

Andy Priaulx (right) and Jörg Müller at the 2009 24-hour race

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.

Priaulx in the BMW 320si E90 , 2007

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
2010 GermanyGermany BMW Motorsport BMW M3 GT2 GermanyGermany Dirk Mueller GermanyGermany Dirk Werner failure malfunction
2011 GermanyGermany BMW Motorsport BMW M3 GT2 GermanyGermany Dirk Mueller United StatesUnited States Joey hand Rank 15
2016 United StatesUnited States Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford GT United KingdomUnited Kingdom Marino Franchitti United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Tincknell Rank 40
2017 United StatesUnited States Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford GT BrazilBrazil Luís Felipe Derani United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Tincknell Rank 18
2018 United StatesUnited States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT BrazilBrazil Tony Kanaan United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Tincknell Rank 30
2019 United StatesUnited States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing UK Ford GT United StatesUnited States Jonathan Bomarito United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Tincknell Rank 23

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2010 United StatesUnited States BMW Rahal Letterman Racing BMW M3 E92 United StatesUnited States Joey hand GermanyGermany Dirk Mueller Rank 8
2011 GermanyGermany BMW Motorsport BMW M3 E92 GT United StatesUnited States Joey hand GermanyGermany Dirk Mueller Rank 10
2014 United StatesUnited States BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTLM United StatesUnited States Joey hand United StatesUnited States Bill Auberlen Rank 14
2015 United StatesUnited States Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 GTE United StatesUnited States Boris Said III United StatesUnited States Michael Marsal FinlandFinland Markus Palttala Rank 25

Individual results in the DTM

season team Manufacturer 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 Points rank
2012 BMW Team RBM BMW BMW GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany LAU United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany NOR GermanyGermany ONLY NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany OSC SpainSpain VAL GermanyGermany HO2 24 13.
6th 17th DNF DNF 7th 19th 13 17 * 8th 7th
2013 BMW Team RMG BMW BMW GermanyGermany HO1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany NOR RussiaRussia MOS GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany OSC NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany HO2 10 20th
17 * 19th 19th 22nd 9 20th 16 19th 20th 6th
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

See also

Web links

Commons : Andy Priaulx  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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) .