Dominik Schwager

Dominik Schwager (born 18 August 1976 in Munich) is a German auto racing driver.

Dominik Schwager
Nationality	German
Born	(1976-08-18) 18 August 1976 (age 48) Munich, Germany
FIA GT1 World Championship career
Debut season	2010
Current team	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport
Car number	37
Starts	20
Wins	1
Poles	2
Best finish	1st in 2011
Previous series
2011 2007-09 2008 1999-08 2006 1999, 2002-03 1998 1996-97 1994-95	American Le Mans Series VLN ADAC GT Masters Super GT Porsche Carrera Cup Formula Nippon International Formula 3000 German Formula Three Championship BMW/ADAC Formula Junior
Championship titles
1995	BMW/ADAC Formula Junior

Career

Schwager's racing career began with karting in Germany, participating in the national championship from 1989 to 1992 before moving to the Junior Karting World Championship in 1993. Schwager went on to win a driver search held by BMW and the ADAC in 1993, earning him an entry in the Formula Junior open wheel series which he went on to win in 1995. Schwager progressed to the German Formula Three Championship, initially finishing second in the B-Cup category before taking on the top tier championship in 1997. Schwager was also selected to be part of the Benetton Formula junior team as part of a development program, aided by backing from BMW. This support landed him in the International Formula 3000 series in 1998 with French squad Oreca, but only earned points in one round of the series.

For 1999, Schwager made a change to his racing career and moved from Europe to Japan, entering the Formula Nippon series as well as having his first taste of grand tourer racing by entering the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) series in select rounds partnered with Hideshi Matsuda driving a Team Taisan Porsche. Although Schwager scored only one point in the Formula Nippon season, he did earn two class wins in JGTC. This early success in JGTC led Schwager to concentrate solely on the series, moving to the top GT500 category and partnering Daisuke Ito at Nakajima Racing in the Mobil 1 Honda NSX. Schwager and Ito won two races and finished fourth in the points standings, while a further win was earned in the 2001 season. Schwager remained with Honda into 2002 but turned to the Mugen Motorsports team before switching to the Toyota Supra in 2003 with SARD. Schwager also made a return to Formula Nippon in 2003 with Kondo Racing but failed to score any points. Schwager returned to his Taisan team in 2004, earning another win in the now renamed Super GT series in 2005. Left without a contract for 2006, Schwager returned to Europe to drive in the Porsche Carrera Cup before returning to Super GT once again in the Team Kunimitsu NSX.

During the 2007 season, Schwager also participated in European races, driving in the Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring (VLN) series as well as making his first start at the 24 Hours Nürburgring. This expanded in 2008 when Schwager entered the new ADAC GT Masters series in a Callaway Corvette and won three races. Schwager became a development driver for Alpina's GT3 program in 2009 while continuing in the VLN series before signing to drive with Münnich Motorsport in the inaugural FIA GT1 World Championship, driving Lamborghini.^[1]

Racing record

Despite earning points in only four races in the season, Schwager and teammate Nicky Pastorelli were retained by Münnich for 2011 where the duo earned two pole positions and one Championship Race win en route to finishing the season eighth in the standings. Schwager and Pastorelli also participated in select rounds of the American Le Mans Series for West Racing.

Complete German Formula Three results

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

Year	Entrant	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
1996	TKF Racing	Opel	B	HOC 1 4	HOC 2 2	NÜR 14	NÜR 1 14	NÜR 2 20†	NOR 1 8	NOR 2 6	DIE 1 8	DIE 2 4	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	MAG 1	MAG 2	HOC 1	HOC 2				2nd	66
1997	Benetton RTL Junior Team	Opel	A	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 5	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 9	SAC 1 7	SAC 2 4	NOR 1 1	NOR 2 1	WUN 1 Ret	WUN 2 9	ZWE 1	ZWE 2	SAL 1 9	SAL 2 Ret	LAH 1 17†	LAH 2 Ret	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 14	10th	68

Complete International Formula 3000 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	DC	Points
1998	RTL Team Oreca	OSC 14	IMO 11	CAT 4	SIL 14	MON 10	PAU DNQ	A1R Ret	HOC 14	HUN 18	SPA Ret	PER Ret	NÜR 7	14th	3

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1999	Team Taisan	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT500	SUZ	FUJ	SUG 15							NC	0
	Team Taisan Jr. with Advan	Porsche 911 GT3R	GT300				MIN Ret	FUJ 1	TAI Ret	MOT 1			8th	40
2000	Mobil1 Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	MOT 3	FUJ 7	SUG 1	FUJ 9	TAI 16	MIN Ret	SUZ 1			4th	58
2001	Mobil1 Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 3	FUJ 12	SUG 14	FUJ 6	MOT 1	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret			8th	38
2002	Dome Project	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 5	FUJ 3	SUG 3	SEP 10	FUJ	MOT	MIN	SUZ		13th	35
2003	TOYOTA TEAM SARD	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 14	FUJ 3	SUG 14	FUJ 3	FUJ 7	MOT 7	AUT 1	SUZ 9		6th	57
2004	Team Advan Tsuchiya	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 14	SUG 2	SEP Ret	TOK 13	MOT 12	AUT 3	SUZ 10			12th	31
2005	Team Tsuchiya	Toyota Supra	GT500	OKA 1	FUJ 14	SEP 15	SUG 9	MOT 15	FUJ	AUT Ret	SUZ 14		15th	25
2007	Team Kunimitsu	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ Ret	OKA 2	FUJ 5	SEP 2	SUG 12	SUZ 4	MOT Ret	AUT 2	FUJ 7	3rd	64
2008	Team Impul	Nissan GT-R	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG 12					22nd	10
	Nismo	Nissan GT-R							SUZ 4	MOT	AUT	FUJ

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Courage Compétition	Alexander Frei Christian Vann	Courage C60H-Judd	LMP1	339	8th	6th

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	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	Lamborghini	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR Ret	SIL QR 20	SIL CR 12	BRN QR 4	BRN CR 7	PRI QR 15	PRI CR 12	SPA QR 5	SPA CR 9	NÜR QR 11	NÜR CR Ret	ALG QR 8	ALG CR Ret	NAV QR Ret	NAV CR 9	INT QR 5	INT CR 7	SAN QR 9	SAN CR 11	32nd	16
2011	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	Lamborghini	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR 11	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR Ret	ALG QR 5	ALG CR 4	SAC QR 7	SAC CR 2	SIL QR 6	SIL CR 10	NAV QR 2	NAV CR 1	PRI QR Ret	PRI CR 9	ORD QR 6	ORD CR 6	BEI QR 9	BEI CR Ret	SAN QR 3	SAN CR Ret	8th	80

References

1. "Dominik Schwager". All-Inkl.com Racing. Münnich Motorsport. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

External links

• Official website
• Dominik Schwager career summary at DriverDB.com