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Ellen Lohr

Ellen Lohr

German racing driver (born 1965)

Ellen Lohr (born 12 April 1965 in Mönchengladbach) is a German race car driver.[1] She currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving the No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro for Dexwet-df1 Racing in the Elite 1 class.[2]

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Ellen Lohr - AMG-Mercedes C Klasse leads teammate Klaus Luwig at Melbourne Hairpin, 1994 DTM, Donington Park.

She is one of Germany's most accomplished female drivers, having won a DTM (German Touring Car Masters) race, on 24 May 1992 in a Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2 on the Hockenheimring.[1] Lohr is currently the only female driver to have won a DTM race.[3]

When the DTM/ITC series was discontinued in 1996 she moved to truck racing and also competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Challenge (DTC), a German touring car racing series. From 2004 Ellen Lohr competed in the Dakar Rally and similar events. She is an occasional television commentator for DTM races.[4]

In 2008 Ellen Lohr competed in the German Rally Championship, the Deutsche Rally Meisterschaft, with Antonia Roissard de Bellet as her navigator.[5] They also entered the 2008 Central Europe Rally (part of the Dakar Series).[6]

After her initial retirement in 2016, she worked in Formula E in the marketing department of the Venturi race team in 2017.[7] She returned to full-time competition in 2019 after she signed a contract with Dexwet-df1 Racing to compete in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in the No. 99 team. She had previously spectated the 2018 season finale at Zolder and expressed interests to compete in the series after spectating the race.[2]

Racing record

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results

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

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Complete International Touring Car Championship results

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

Complete NASCAR results

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Ellen Lohr Carlsson Brand Ambassador". Mercedes Tuning Mag. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Ellen Lohr returns to racing, joining NASCAR Euro Series in 2019". Motorsport.com. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  3. [3]
    Brown, Oliver (23 April 2019). "Entire female-only W Series to be shown on free-to-air television". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Ellen Lohr to contest the Dakar 2006". us.motorsport.com. 3 August 2005. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  5. [5]
    "24 Maggio 1992, la prima vittoria di Ellen Lohr epica al DTM". Giornale Motori (in Italian). 24 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. [6]
    "marathonrally.com | ABSA South African Off-Road Championship 2006". www.marathonrally.com. Retrieved 10 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
  7. [7]
    Zimmermann, Ruben (8 January 2017). "Ex-DTM-Pilotin Ellen Lohr zieht es in die Formel E". Motorsport Total (in German). sport media group GmbH. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
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