51 Facts About Tom Dillmann

Tom Dillmann is well known for winning the German Formula Three Championship in the 2010 season and the Formula V8 3.5 Championship in the 2016 3.5 season.

Tom Dillmann raced go-karts from 2000 to 2002 in the minime and junior classes, and won a regional title and achieved fourth place in the French championship.

In 2003, Dillmann tested a prototype made by his father.

Tom Dillmann drove the car, powered by a motorbike engine, on circuit and ice.

Tom Dillmann finished fifth in the championship with three podiums, including a victory at Spa-Francorchamps.

Tom Dillmann contested selected races of the Formula Renault Monza and Formula Junior 1600 Spain championships, taking a podium finish in the latter.

Tom Dillmann moved into the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2005, as part of a three-car Prema Powerteam effort alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Patrick Rocha.

Tom Dillmann contested the first three meetings with Prema, before moving to Cram Competition for the next two meetings.

Tom Dillmann contested three meetings of the French championship, but failed to score any points.

Tom Dillmann returned to the European series at the start of the 2006 season; again as part of a three-car team, this time with SG Formula, along with Sten Pentus and Carlo van Dam.

Alongside his Eurocup commitments, Tom Dillmann contested the majority of the French Formula Renault Championship.

Tom Dillmann added two further second places at the final meeting of the season in Barcelona, finishing behind eventual series champion Filipe Albuquerque on both occasions.

Tom Dillmann missed the opening meeting of the year after a pre-season testing crash left him with a broken sternum and vertebra, but finished the season ninth overall after taking three podiums during the season.

Tom Dillmann remained in the Euro Series for the 2008 season, again with Red Bull backing, and rejoined his former Formula Renault team SG Formula, who were moving up to the Euro Series for the first time.

Tom Dillmann set the fastest lap on the first day of testing at Estoril, but could not repeat this form early in the season; his best finish in the first three meetings was a fifteenth-place finish at Hockenheim.

Tom Dillmann returned to the series later in the season at the Nurburgring, with the Jo Zeller Racing team, after they parted with Michael Klein.

Tom Dillmann did not continue with the team beyond that meeting, and was classified 18th in the final drivers' championship standings.

In three meetings, Tom Dillmann recorded two second places and two third places, and ended the season in seventh place in the championship.

Tom Dillmann finished outside the top 20 in both races, but remained with the team for the following event at the Nurburgring, where he recorded a best result of fourteenth place.

Tom Dillmann contested the final two meetings of the season; he competed at Dijon with Prema Powerteam, and again with HBR Motorsport, at Hockenheim.

Tom Dillmann was on the pace immediately, taking pole position for the second race of the weekend; he finished both races on the podium, with a third place and a victory in the second race.

Tom Dillmann won races at the Sachsenring and Oschersleben, to finish sixth in the drivers' championship, having competed in just six races.

Tom Dillmann competed full-time in German Formula Three in the 2010 Formel 3 season, moving to the HS Technik team.

At the first meeting of the year at Oschersleben, Tom Dillmann won the second race on-the-road, before being demoted to seventh after a post-race penalty for jumping the start.

Tom Dillmann won both races during the weekend, to move into the championship lead.

Tom Dillmann extended his championship lead after a third victory of the season, from pole position, at Hockenheim.

Tom Dillmann achieved another victory at the Nurburgring during the championship's second visit to the circuit, and held a nine-point championship lead over Abt into the final meeting of the season at Oschersleben.

Tom Dillmann finished second to Abt in the opening race at Oschersleben, to reduce the advantage to seven points; but Tom Dillmann ultimately prevailed, as Abt failed to score points in the final race due to a broken lambda sensor.

Tom Dillmann, who had earlier retired with a fuel pump failure, became the first French driver to win the championship title.

Tom Dillmann was invited to a Formula Renault 3.5 Series test at Motorland Aragon in October 2010, as a result of becoming champion in German Formula Three.

Tom Dillmann set the third-quickest time during the test, and best of all newcomers, while driving for the ISR Racing team.

Tom Dillmann contested three events in the Italian Formula Three Championship; at the opening meeting at Misano, Tom Dillmann took a fourth place and a second place for Scuderia Victoria.

Tom Dillmann returned for the final two meetings with EuroInternational, failing to score a point.

Tom Dillmann contested two meetings of the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2011; he competed for Carlin at Hockenheim, and Motopark at the Red Bull Ring, achieving a best result of third place in the third race at the Red Bull Ring, taking his first Euro Series podium since 2008.

Tom Dillmann contested the Zolder round of the German Formula Three Championship, competing in the Trophy class for older-specification machinery.

Tom Dillmann won one race, and finished third in the other.

In March 2011, Tom Dillmann joined the Carlin team for the 2011 season, partnering Conor Daly and Leonardo Cordeiro in the team.

Tom Dillmann made a poor start to the race, but eventually finished the race in third position.

Tom Dillmann finished both races in the points, as he finished in sixth place in the first race before a third place in the second race.

Tom Dillmann took his first GP2 win in the sprint race of the third round of the championship, held in Bahrain.

Tom Dillmann returned to racing action for the next round at Hockenheim as De Jong was competing in a clashing Auto GP World Series event in Brazil, but then lost it again for the following round in Hungary due to budgetary problems.

Tom Dillmann ended the season 15th in the standings; the highest-placed driver not to complete the full season.

For 2013, it was announced that Tom Dillmann would join the new Motopark-run Russian Time team alongside GP2 returnee Sam Bird.

Tom Dillmann scored two pole positions and fastest laps apiece and finished tenth overall, eight places behind Bird.

In 2014, although confirmed at Russian Time, the death of the team principal in January had the consequence that he lost his seat; Tom Dillmann contested eight rounds of the championship with Arden International and Caterham, finishing on the podium in the sprint race at Catalunya and achieving the fastest lap in the feature race at the Hungaroring.

In 2015, Tom Dillmann joined the series with Jagonya Ayam with Carlin.

Tom Dillmann achieved a pole position in the final round at Jerez and finished seventh overall, despite scoring no victories.

Later that month, Venturi announced Tom Dillmann would make his racing debut at the Paris ePrix in place of Maro Engel.

Tom Dillmann failed to score points throughout the season, finishing 23rd in the standings.

In May 2021, Tom Dillmann was announced as the simulator and reserve driver for the Jaguar Racing Formula E team.

Tom Dillmann was replaced by two-time Super GT champion Joao Paulo de Oliveira.