- Jörg Müller
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name = Jörg Müller
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caption = In 2007, as a WTCC driver
nationality = flagicon|Germany German
date of birth = Birth date and age|1969|09|3
place of birth =Kerkrade ,Netherlands
related to = Ewald Müller, a European kart champion
current series =World Touring Car Championship
first year = 2005
current team = BMW Team Germany
car number = 2
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prev series = GermanFormula Ford GermanFormula Opel EuropeanFormula Ford 1600German Formula Three Championship Supertouring InternationalFormula 3000 FIA GT Championship American Le Mans Series European Touring Car Championship
prev series years = 1988 1989 1989 1990–1994 1995–1996 1996 1998 1999–2001 2002–2004
titles = GermanFormula Opel EuropeanFormula Ford 1600German Formula Three Championship InternationalFormula 3000 American Le Mans Series (GT)
title years = 1989 1989 1994 1996 2001
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award years =Jörg Müller (born
September 3 1969 inKerkrade ,Netherlands ) is a Germanrace driver , driving forBMW in theWorld Touring Car Championship (WTCC).Racing career
In 1989 Müller won the titles in German
Formula Opel Lotus Challenge and in EuropeanFormula Ford 1600.The 1994 German Formula Three Champion won a
Supertouring car race for BMW in 1995 and the 1995-1996Spa 24 Hours as well as the 1996Formula 3000 Championship for team RSMHelmut Marko Lola-Zytek). He also won the prestigiousMacau Grand Prix in 1993.From 1997 to 1998, Müller was a
Formula One testdriver forArrows andSauber -Petronas, before joining theBMW -WilliamsF1 project to do tests for engines andMichelin tyres from 1999 to 2001. He never managed to race in Formula 1 though.From 1997 to 2000 he was also busy in
sportscar racing , with drives for Nissan. He was part of the team that were winning the24 Hours of Daytona in aPorsche 911 GT1 and leading the 199924 Hours of Le Mans for 18 hours in aBMW V12 LMR .In 2000 (
BMW V12 LMR ) and 2001 (BMW M3 GTR V8), Müller was successful in theAmerican Le Mans Series (ALMS) for BMW andSchnitzer Motorsport .From the 2002 to 2005 season, Müller drove BMW 3series model E46 touring cars for the Schnitzer-operated works squad "Team Deutschland" (also called "Team Germany") in the FIA
European Touring Car Championship (now WTCC). Since 2006, the team uses the new BMW 3series model E90 which is based on theBMW 320si limited edition model that has a 4-cyl engine rather than the usual 6-cyl.The 2004
24 Hours Nürburgring was won by both Müllers (andHans-Joachim Stuck ) with theBMW M3 GTR V8 that had been raced successfully in the 2001 ALMS. In 2005, the Müllers finished 2nd behind their sister car.In 2006 Müller finished second in the
World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). The following year he finished seventh in the championship.Family
His formally team-mate
Dirk Müller is unrelated, as is French driverYvan Muller . Jörg Müller is the son of formally EuropeanKarting -champion Ewald Müller.Müller currently resides in
Monaco . He has a younger brother, Rainer, and an older sister, Marion.External links
* [http://www.jorg-muller.com/ Jörg Müller official website]
* [http://www.fiagt.com/driverinfo.php?drivername=J%C3%B6rg+M%C3%BCller Profile] - by [http://www.fiagt.com/ FIA GT Championship official website]
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