Markus Winkelhock

Markus Winkelhock

In 2008, as a DTM driver.
Born	13 June 1980 (1980-06-13) (age 31)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	German
Active years	2007
Teams	Spyker
Races	1
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	2007 European Grand Prix
Last race	2007 European Grand Prix

Markus Winkelhock (born June 13, 1980 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German racing driver, who has taken part in one Formula One Grand Prix, which he briefly led. He is the son of the late Manfred Winkelhock and nephew of Joachim Winkelhock, both of whom were Formula One drivers in the 1980s.^[1]

Early career

Winkelhock driving in the German F3 series in 2002.

Markus won races in a string of junior formulae including Formula König, German Formula Renault and the Formula Renault Eurocup from 1998-2000.^[2]

In 2001, Winkelhock joined the German Formula 3 Championship, where he remained until the championship became the F3 Euroseries in 2003. His record was fifth overall in 2001 (three wins), seventh in 2002 (one win) and fourth in 2003 (two wins).^[2]

He switched to touring car racing in 2004, with a season in the DTM in an AMG-Mercedes CLK. But he failed to score a point all year with the Persson team.^[2]

Winkelhock switched back to single-seater racing in 2005, joining the World Series by Renault with Draco. He won three times but there were also some less than shining moments - notably when he crashed at Monaco in qualifying and on the first lap of the race.^[2]

Formula One

On January 24, 2006, Marcus Winkelhock was confirmed a test and reserve driver in the Midland F1 team, (formerly Jordan Grand Prix) for the 2006 Formula One season.^[3] He participated in Friday test sessions for the team at the Bahrain, Australian, German and Hungarian Grands Prix.^[2]

He was re-signed for 2007 by the team, now in its Spyker F1 guise.^[4] He also made a brief return to the DTM in 2007, starting three races.^[2]

Following Christijan Albers' departure from Spyker after the 2007 British Grand Prix, Winkelhock was confirmed as his replacement for the European Grand Prix on July 18.^[5] The deal was only for one race with Sakon Yamamoto set to race for Spyker for the rest of the season.^[6]

Leading on Grand Prix debut

Due to Christijan Albers' departure from the Spyker F1 Team, Winkelhock was called in for the 10th race of the season, the European Grand Prix. Winkelhock started last on the 22-car grid alongside team mate Adrian Sutil. But on the formation lap with the rest of the field already on dry-weather tyres, the team made a last-second decision to call Winkelhock into the pits to switch to intermediate tyres. When pouring rain forced almost all the others to pit at the end of the first lap, Winkelhock was able to move into the lead, passing some cars as they pitted, and even passing Kimi Räikkönen on the track as the Finn tip-toed around to the pits, eventually building a lead of 33 seconds by the end of the second lap. By lap 4 he had a lead of 1:55.714 over Ferrari's Felipe Massa in 2nd place.

As the rain got heavier the race stewards first sent out the safety car, and then suspended the race following a series of spin-offs in the first corner behind the safety car. The race re-started after the rain had eased. Winkelhock and his team chose to start on full wet tyres on a drying track in the hope of further showers, as the team expected he would be overtaken by faster cars anyway. The gamble failed and, having re-started the race from pole position, Winkelhock quickly fell down the order. He retired on lap 15 with hydraulic problems that caused a small fire. He had led for a total of six laps.^[7]

According to Bob Varsha of the Speed Channel commentary team, Winkelhock is the only driver in Formula One history to start last on the grid and lead the race in his first Grand Prix, and due to the red flag and restart, is also the only driver in Formula One history to start both last and first on the grid in the same Grand Prix.

Despite leading his debut race, the Spyker team eventually opted against giving Winkelhock a drive for the remainder of the 2007 season for sponsorship reasons, and instead decided to give the drive to former Super Aguri driver Sakon Yamamoto.

Post-Formula One career

Winkelhock driving for Audi (Team Rosberg) in the 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season at the Hockenheimring.

Winkelhock returned to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters after he lost his Spyker seat, and has remained in the series, driving for Team Rosberg, for 2008 (12th), 2009 (10th) and 2010 (12th).

For 2011, he will be competing in the FIA GT1 World Championship for the All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport team alongside team boss Marc Basseng driving a Lamborghini.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1998	Formula König	?	9	2	3	161	2nd
1999	Formula Renault Germany	SL Formula Racing	8	1	2	72	4th
		Lechner Racing
2000	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	?	?	?	1	78	6th
	Formula Renault 2000 Italy	SL Racing	4	0	0	8	21st
2001	German Formula Three	Mücke Motorsport	20	2	3	141	5th
	Masters of Formula Three	?	1	0	0	N/A	36th
2002	German Formula Three	Mücke Motorsport	18	2	1	28	7th
2003	Formula Three Euroseries	Mücke Motorsport	20	1	2	71	4th
	Masters of Formula Three	?	1	0	0	N/A	6th
2004	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Team Persson	10	0	0	0	19th
2005	World Series by Renault	Draco Multiracing USA	17	1	3	114	3rd
2006	Formula One	Midland	Test driver
	Porsche Supercup	Porsche AG	1	0	0	0	NC
2007	Formula One	Spyker	1	0	0	0	NC
	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	2	0	0	0	19th
		Futurecom TME	5	0	0	0
2008	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Team Rosberg	11	0	0	6	11th
2009	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Team Rosberg	10	0	0	11	10th
2010	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Team Rosberg	11	0	0	7	12th
2011	GT1 World Championship	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	14	0	0	97	2nd

Complete Formula Three Euroseries results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2003	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg	Dallara F302/012	HWA-Mercedes	HOC1 1 3	HOC1 2 4	ADR 1 Ret	ADR 2 17	PAU 1 21	PAU 2 Ret	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 5	LMS 1 8	LMS 2 18	NÜR 1 1	NÜR 2 2	A1R 1 4	A1R 2 6	ZAN 1 4	ZAN 2 4	HOC2 1 Ret	HOC2 2 2	MAG 1 1	MAG 2 9	4th	71

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2005	Draco Multiracing USA	ZOL 1 Ret	ZOL 2 3	MON 1 DNS	VAL 1 11	VAL 2 12	LMS 1 1	LMS 2 5	BIL 1 Ret	BIL 2 7	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 3	DON 1 5	DON 2 1	EST 1 4	EST 2 2	MNZ 1 3	MNZ 2 1	3rd	114

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	WDC	Points
2006	MF1 Racing	Midland M16	Toyota RVX-06 2.4 V8	BHR TD	MAL	AUS TD	SMR	EUR	ESP	MON	GBR	CAN	USA	FRA	GER TD	HUN TD	TUR	ITA	CHN	JPN	BRA	-	-
2007	Etihad Aldar Spyker F1 Team	Spyker F8-VII	Ferrari 056H 2.4 V8	AUS	MAL	BHR	ESP	MON	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	EUR Ret	HUN	TUR	ITA	BEL	JPN	CHN	BRA		NC	0

Complete DTM results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2004	Persson Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2003	HOC1 15	EST 17	ADR 20	LAU 13	NOR 18	SHA1 9	NÜR Ret	OSC 16	ZAN 14	BRN 18	HOC2 13	19th	0
2007	Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2007	HOC1	OSC	LAU Ret	BRH 14	NOR							19th	0
	Futurecom TME	Audi A4 DTM 2005						MUG 9	ZAN 13	NÜR Ret	CAT 12	HOC2 13
2008	Team Rosberg	Audi A4 DTM 2007	HOC1 12	OSC 6	MUG 7	LAU Ret	NOR 11	ZAN 8	NÜR 9	BRH 11	CAT 11	BUG 11	HOC2 Ret	11th	6
2009	Team Rosberg	Audi A4 DTM 2008	HOC1 4	LAU Ret	NOR 13	ZAN DSQ	OSC Ret	NÜR 4	BRH Ret	CAT Ret	DIJ 10	HOC2 8		10th	11
2010	Team Rosberg	Audi A4 DTM 2008	HOC1 15	VAL Ret	LAU 10	NOR Ret	NÜR Ret	ZAN DNS	BRH Ret	OSC Ret	HOC2 Ret	ADR 4	SHA 7	12th	7

¹ - Shanghai was a non-championship round.

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2011	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	Lamborghini	ABU QR 6	ABU CR 3	ZOL QR 1	ZOL CR 1	ALG QR 7	ALG CR 6	SAC QR 9	SAC CR Ret	SIL QR Ret	SIL CR 5	NAV QR 1	NAV CR 2	PRI QR 7	PRI CR 8	ORD QR EX	ORD CR 8	BEI QR 12	BEI CR Ret	SAN QR 6	SAN CR Ret	5th	102

References

1. ^ "F1's famous names return". F1Fanatic.co.uk. 2007. http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/06/20/f1s-famous-names-return/. Retrieved 2007-07-21. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Who's Who: Markus Winkelhock". F1Fanatic.co.uk. 2007. http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-w/markus-winkelhock. Retrieved 2007-07-21. 
3. ^ "Markus Winkelhock is MF1 Racing's test driver". NewsOnF1.net. 2006-01-25. http://newsonf1.net/2006/news/01/jan24mid.htm. Retrieved 2006-11-12. 
4. ^ "Spyker announces four test drivers". GPUpdate.net. 2007-02-01. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/140962/spyker-announces-four-test-drivers/. Retrieved 2011-02-01. 
5. ^ "Winkelhock name to return to F1". news.bbc.co.uk. 2007-07-18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6904897.stm. Retrieved 2007-07-18. 
6. ^ "Spyker confirm Yamamoto deal". Autosport.com. 2007-07-26. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61146. Retrieved 2007-07-26. 
7. ^ "European Grand Prix 2007 statistics and facts". F1Fanatic.co.uk. 2007. http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/07/23/european-gp-2007-facts-statistics/. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 

External links

• Official website
• Markus Winkelhock's career statistics at Driver Database
• Who's Who: Markus Winkelhock at F1Fanatic

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