1. In touring car racing, Hans-Joachim Stuck won the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft in 1990.
18 Facts About Hans-Joachim Stuck
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Hans-Joachim Stuck began racing at the Nurburgring with his father throughout his childhood, winning the 24 Hours in 1970, aged 19.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck contested 81 Formula One Grands Prix between 1974 and 1979 for March, Brabham, Shadow, and ATS, achieving podium finishes at the German and Austrian Grands Prix in 1977 with Brabham.
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Across a four-decade career in sportscar racing, Hans-Joachim Stuck took several major victories, including three at the Nurburgring 24 Hours, two at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and one at the Spa 24 Hours.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck took eight victories in the World Sportscar Championship for BMW and Porsche, winning the title in 1985 and finishing runner-up in 1986 with the latter, driving the 962C.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck 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.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck's father taught him to drive on the Nurburgring as a young boy.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck won there again in 1998 and 2004, too, each time with a BMW touring car.
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In 1972, Hans-Joachim Stuck teamed up with Jochen Mass to drive a Ford Capri RS2600 to victory at the Spa 24 Hours endurance race in Belgium.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck's 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.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck achieved two podiums and scored 29 championship points.
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Incidentally, Hans-Joachim Stuck was the first driver be born after the inaugural Grand Prix in 1950.
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Hans-Joachim 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 in 1978.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck missed an opportunity to join Williams F1 just before this team became successful.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck continued racing touring and sports cars all over the world, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice with a Porsche 962.
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Hans-Joachim 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".
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Hans-Joachim Stuck resumed an official role with BMW after that.
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January 2008 saw Hans-Joachim Stuck began his current position with Volkswagen Motorsport.