Stefan Mücke

Stefan Mücke
Mücke at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driver parade
Nationality	German
Born	22 November 1981 (age 35) Berlin, Germany
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2007- Teams Charouz Racing Systems, Aston Martin Racing Best finish 3rd (2012, 2013)

Stefan Mücke (born 22 November 1981) is a German professional racing driver.

Racing career

Born in Berlin, Mücke started his racing career in 1998, when he won the Formula BMW ADAC series, with his father's Mücke Motorsport team, also making their debut. He competed in German Formula Three for his father's team for the next three years, before moving to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for 2002. He raced Mercedes for Team Rosberg, Persson Motorsport and Mücke Motorsport in his four years in the series.

In 2007, Mücke moved into sports car racing,^[1] in the FIA GT Championship for the AllInkl.com team in a Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT, and in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Charouz Racing Systems in their Lola. He continued to race with Charouz in 2008. In 2009 he competed at the Le Mans Series for Aston Martin Racing. He recorded three consecutive top-ten finishes in the LMP1 class at Le Mans.

On June 5, 2011, Mücke was involved in incident with Richard Westbrook during FIA GT1 World Championship race at Silverstone. First, Westbrook hit Mücke who spun as a result, while Westbrook damaged his own car. Mücke continued and clipped ahead of Westbrook who was driving down Hangar Straight. Both cars were wrecked as a result, and were out of the race. Mücke received 10-place grid penalty for the next race and he was also reported to DMSB to have his licence withdrawn.^[2]

Mücke again had his aggressive driving style questioned after at least two incidents in the 2015 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour. Both involved collisions with Bentleys on the difficult Mount Panorama Circuit. The first took out David Brabham at 'The Cutting', the second on the last corner of the last lap forced Matt Bell wide, depriving the latter of a podium place. "I think the guy (Mücke) needs a bit of a talking to." said Bell's co-driver Guy Smith.^[3]

For 2012, Mücke will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin Racing in a GTE-Pro class Aston Martin Vantage.

In the 80th, edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012, Mücke and the Aston Martin Racing got the third place in the GTE-Pro class along with his co-drivers the Mexican Adrián Fernández and the British Darren Turner, their Aston Martin Vantage 4.5 L-V8 covered a total of 332 laps (2,811.65 miles), in the Circuit de la Sarthe without failure or serious mechanical problems. Also the team achieved the fastest lap of the category with 3 minutes and 54.928 seconds.^[4][5]

In 2016, Stefan joined Ford Chip Ganassi Racing UK's two-car FIA World Endurance Championship LMGTE Pro effort after eight seasons with Aston Martin.^[6]

Racing record

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters 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	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
2002	Team Rosberg	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2001	HOC QR 12	HOC CR Ret	ZOL QR 15	ZOL CR 11	DON QR 15	DON CR 13	SAC QR 17	SAC CR Ret	NOR QR 9	NOR CR Ret	LAU QR 18	LAU CR 16	NÜR QR 12	NÜR CR 17	A1R QR 20	A1R CR 14	ZAN QR 19	ZAN CR 15	HOC QR 10	HOC CR 8	20th	0
2003	Team Rosberg	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2002	HOC 17	ADR Ret	NÜR 15	LAU DNS	NOR 15	DON 11	NÜR 12	A1R 11	ZAN 17	HOC 14											20th	0
2004	Persson Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2003	HOC 18†	EST 14	ADR 7	LAU Ret	NOR 15†	SHA^1 10	NÜR 10	OSC 17	ZAN 17	BRN 11	HOC 10										15th	2
2005	Mücke Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004	HOC 7	LAU 8	SPA 12	BRN Ret	OSC 11	NOR Ret	NÜR 17	ZAN Ret	LAU Ret	IST 9	HOC 11										18th	3
2006	Mücke Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2005	HOC Ret	LAU 12	OSC 12	BRH 13	NOR 4	NÜR 11	ZAN 7	CAT 12	BUG 15	HOC Ret											12th	7

¹ - Shanghai was a non-championship round.

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

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Charouz Racing System	Jan Charouz Alex Yoong	Lola B07/17-Judd	LMP1	338	8th	5th
2008	Charouz Racing System Aston Martin Racing	Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge	Lola B08/60-Aston Martin	LMP1	354	9th	9th
2009	AMR Eastern Europe	Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	373	4th	4th
2010	Aston Martin Racing	Harold Primat Adrián Fernández	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	365	6th	5th
2011	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Christian Klien	Aston Martin AMR-One	LMP1	4	DNF	DNF
2012	Aston Martin Racing	Adrián Fernández Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	332	19th	3rd
2013	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Peter Dumbreck	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	314	17th	3rd
2014	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Bruno Senna	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	310	35th	6th
2015	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Rob Bell	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	110	DNF	DNF
2016	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Billy Johnson Olivier Pla	Ford GT	GTE Pro	339	21st	4th

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
2010	Young Driver AMR	Aston Martin	ABU QR 4	ABU CR Ret	SIL QR Ret	SIL CR 5	BRN QR 11	BRN CR Ret	PRI QR Ret	PRI CR 20	SPA QR 3	SPA CR Ret	NÜR QR 9	NÜR CR 5	ALG QR 15	ALG CR 11	NAV QR DNS	NAV CR DNS	INT QR 12	INT CR 11	SAN QR Ret	SAN CR 5	20th	34
2011	Young Driver AMR	Aston Martin	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR 5	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR 7	ALG QR 4	ALG CR 2	SAC QR 3	SAC CR 3	SIL QR Ret	SIL CR Ret	NAV QR 6	NAV CR Ret	PRI QR 3	PRI CR 2	ORD QR 7	ORD CR 5	BEI QR 2	BEI CR 1	SAN QR DNS	SAN CR DNS	2nd	120

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SEB 3	SPA Ret	LMS 3	SIL 2	SÃO 2	BHR 2	FUJ 3	SHA 1	2nd†	142†
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 4	LMS 3	SÃO 2	COA Ret	FUJ 1	SHA 1	BHR Ret	3rd	125.5
2014	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA 4	LMS 10	COA 1	FUJ 9	SHA Ret	BHR 2	SÃO 1	5th	102
2015	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 5	SPA 5	LMS	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	7th*	20*

* Season still in progress.
† There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMGTE Pro Trophy.

References

1. Stefan Mücke quits DTM
2. JRM Nissan takes Tourist Trophy in Silverstone thriller
3. http://www.speedcafe.com/2015/02/09/le-mans-winner-eyeing-bathurst-12-hour-return/
4. "LeMans TV Live". Live.lemans-tv.com. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
5. "Aston Martin Vantage GTE Scores Podium on Le Mans Debut". Fernandezracing.net. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
6. "Stefan Mücke". performance.ford.com. Retrieved 2016-10-21.

External links

• Official website
• Stefan Mücke on Twitter
• Stefan Mücke career summary at DriverDB.com