Hans-Joachim Stuck

He was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, and is the son of Christa Thielmann and the legendary 1930s Auto Union Grand Prix driver Hans Stuck. As a young boy, his father taught him driving on the Nürburgring. In 1969 he started his first ever motor race at the Nordschleife. Speaking about that day he said, "Getting to the grid was extremely exciting. All of a sudden, my wishes to become a racer came true. I just wanted to start the race and give everybody hell!"^[1] The following year, at just 19 years of age, he won his first 24 hours race at the wheel of a BMW 2002ti. He won there again in 1998 and 2004, too, each time with a BMW touring car.

In 1972, Stuck teamed up with Jochen Mass to drive a Ford Capri RS2600 to victory at the Spa 24 Hours endurance race in Belgium. His campaigns racing the BMW 3.0 CSL "Batmobile" were very successful in 1974 and 1975, in the German DRM as well as in the USA together with Ronnie Peterson. Later in the 1970s he raced the turbo-charged BMW 320i.

After some success in Formula 2 with a March-BMW, he also entered F1 with March. Overall, Stuck participated in 81 Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1974. He achieved two podiums and scored 29 championship points. Incidentally, Stuck was the first driver to be born after the inaugural Grand Prix in 1950. Stuck was quite successful at Brabham-Alfa in 1977, leading the 1977 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in the rain, but was replaced by Niki Lauda for 1978. Stuck missed an opportunity to join Williams F1 just before this team became successful.

Due to his height of 194 centimetres (6 ft 4 in), he did not fit well into the F1 cars of the late 1970s that had the cockpit moved forward. Leaving F1 at that time probably spared him bad injuries to the leg, as suffered by Ronnie Peterson, Clay Regazzoni, Marc Surer and others.

Stuck continued racing touring and sports cars all over the world, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice with a Porsche 962. Stuck says the 962 is the favourite racecar he has driven during his career, describing it as having the "perfect combination of power and downforce" and saying that he had "never sat in such a high-tech racing car as the Porsche 962C with the PDK semi-automatic transmission".^[1][2]

In the 1990s he tasted touring car success, winning the DTM Championship in 1990 with Audi, before returning to Porsche until the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998. He resumed an official role with BMW after that. In 2006, Stuck raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired Formula One drivers after scoring 6th in the first race event at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa on 11–13 November 2005.

January 2008 saw Stuck began his current position with Volkswagen Motorsport.^[3] This role has also seen him use his experience to help refine road cars, including the new Golf VI GTI.^[4]

Stuck announced the end of his active career as a race driver after 43 years after the 2011 Nürburgring 24 Hours, in which he participated with a Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo LP600+ GT3 together with Dennis Rostek and his sons Ferdinand Stuck and Johannes Stuck. Team Stuck³ finished 15th overall following gearbox problems.^[5]

In April 2012, Stuck was appointed President of the German Motorsport Association (Deutscher Motor Sport Bund).^[6]

^‡ Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points.
^† As Stuck was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Year	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Position	Notes
1970	Koepchen	BMW 2002 TI	Clemens Schickentanz	1st
1971	Alpina	BMW 2002 TI	Günter Huber	DNF	Engine
1972	Fritzinger Tuning	Ford Capri RS 2600	Klaus Fritzinger	2nd
1981	Unknown	BMW 320i Gr. 2	K. Hens Michael Middelhaufe	5th
1982	Auto Budde Racing Team	BMW 528i	Heiner Müller Michael Middelhaufe	DNF	Crash
1984	Unknown	BMW 635 CSi	Dieter Quester Harald Grohs	DNF	Crash
1992	Manthey Racing	Porsche 911 Carrera 2	Olaf Manthey Walter Röhrl Frank Biela	3rd
1998	BMW Motorsport	BMW 320d	Marc Duez Christian Menzel Andreas Bovensiepen	1st
2000	Scheid Motorsport	BMW M3 GTRS	Johannes Scheid Stefan Schlesack	DNF
2002	Scheid Motorsport	BMW M3 GTRS	Johannes Scheid Mario Merten Oliver Kainz	DNF	Gearbox
2003	BMW Motorsport	BMW M3 GTR	Boris Said John Nielsen Marc Duez	DNF	Crash
2004	BMW Motorsport	BMW M3 GTR	Pedro Lamy Jörg Müller Dirk Müller	1st
2005	BMW Motorsport	BMW M3 GTR	Pedro Lamy Jörg Müller Dirk Müller	2nd
2006	Duller Motorsport	BMW M3 E46 GT	Dieter Quester Dirk Werner Artur Deutgen	DNF	Crash
2007	Schubert Motorsport	BMW Z4 M Coupe	Johannes Stuck Claudia Hürtgen Richard Göransson	5th
2008	Volkswagen Motorsport	VW Scirocco GT24	Florian Gruber Thomas Mutsch Jimmy Johansson	11th
	Volkswagen Motorsport	VW Scirocco GT24	Carlos Sainz Giniel de Villiers Dieter Depping	15th
2009	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Emanuele Pirro Frank Biela Marcel Fässler	12th
2010	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Marc Basseng Mike Rockenfeller Frank Stippler	DNF	Engine
2011	Team Stuck3	Gallardo LP600+ GT3	Johannes Stuck Ferdinand Stuck Dennis Rostek	15th

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

^‡ Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Footnotes

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1972	Ford Motor Company Deutschland	Jochen Mass	Ford Capri 2600RS	T 3.0	152	DNF	DNF
1973	BMW Motorsport	Chris Amon	BMW 3.0 CSL	T 5.0	160	DNF	DNF
1980	BMW Motorsport GmbH	Hans-Georg Bürger Dominique Lacaud	BMW M1	IMSA	283	15th	5th
1981	BASF Cassetten Team GS Sport	Jean-Pierre Jarier Helmut Henzler	BMW M1	IMSA GTX	57	DNF	DNF
1982	BASF Cassetten Team GS Sport	Jean-Louis Schlesser Dieter Quester	Sauber SHS C6-Ford	C	76	DNF	DNF
1983	Brun Motorsport GmbH	Walter Brun Harald Grohs	Sehcar C830-Porsche	C	-	DNS	DNS
1985	Rothmans Porsche	Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	C1	367	3rd	3rd
1986	Rothmans Porsche	Derek Bell Al Holbert	Porsche 962C	C1	368	1st	1st
1987	Rothmans Porsche AG	Derek Bell Al Holbert	Porsche 962C	C1	355	1st	1st
1988	Porsche AG	Klaus Ludwig Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	C1	394	2nd	2nd
1989	Joest Racing	Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	C1	382	3rd	3rd
1990	Joest Porsche Racing	Derek Bell Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	C1	350	4th	4th
1991	Konrad Motorsport Joest Porsche Racing	Derek Bell Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	C2	347	7th	7th
1993	Le Mans Porsche Team	Walter Röhrl Hurley Haywood	Porsche 911 Turbo S LM-GT	GT	79	DNF	DNF
1994	Le Mans Porsche Team Joest Racing	Thierry Boutsen Danny Sullivan	Dauer 962 Le Mans	GT1	343	3rd	2nd
1995	Porsche Kremer Racing	Thierry Boutsen Christophe Bouchut	Kremer K8 Spyder	WSC	289	6th	2nd
1996	Porsche AG	Thierry Boutsen Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT1	GT1	353	2nd	1st
1997	Porsche AG	Thierry Boutsen Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT1	GT1	238	DNF	DNF
1998	Team BMW Motorsport	Steve Soper Tom Kristensen	BMW V12 LM	LMP1	60	DNF	DNF

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1983 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded 1983 all races, 1983 in class)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

• † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap.

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