Marcel Tiemann

Marcel Tiemann (born 19 March 1974) is a former racing driver from Germany. He is best known for being a five-time winner of the 24 Hours Nürburgring race with Opel and Porsche.

Marcel Tiemann
Tiemann's Manthey Porsche at the 2009 VLN Series
Nationality	Germany
Born	(1974-03-19) March 19, 1974 (age 50) Hamburg, Germany
Previous series
2010 2003-2009 2009 2005-2008 2006 2005-2006 2005 2002 2000-2002 2001 1996-1997 1995-1996 1993-1994 1992	International GT Open 24 Hours Nürburgring Speedcar Series Rolex Sports Car Series FIA GT Championship American Le Mans Series Le Mans Series Porsche Supercup DTM V8Star Germany FIA GT1 World Championship Formula 3 Germany Formula Renault Germany Formula König
Championship titles
2009 2008 2007 2006 2003 1994	24 Hours Nürburgring 24 Hours Nürburgring 24 Hours Nürburgring 24 Hours Nürburgring 24 Hours Nürburgring Formula Renault Germany

Career

Early series

Tiemann started his career in Formula König before moving to Formula Renault Germany. In 1994 he won the championship, and graduated to Formula 3. In 1996, Tiemann won the Formula 3 Monaco Grand Prix driving for Opel.^[1]

Sportscars

Marcel Tiemann driving in ALMS

In 1997 Tiemann switched from single seaters to sportscars, and competed in the FIA GT1 Championship season for AMG. He won the round in Suzuka, and secured podiums at four other races. Returning for 1998, his best result was 2nd at Oschersleben.^[2][3][4]

In 1999, he was entered to race at the Le Mans 24h endurance race. However, the Mercedes-Benz CLR he was driving was involved in two high-profile accidents with Mark Webber driving, and the car was pulled out of the race.^[5]

In 2001, he drove for Zakspeed in V8Star Series finishing 2nd in the championship with two wins.^[6][7]

Tiemann began racing in America in 2005, where he joined the American Le Mans Series and Grand American Rolex Series. In 2008, he scored his best finish in GrandAm at Watkins Glen driving for GM.^[8][9]

Tiemann made regular appearances in the Nürburgring Endurance Series during his career, taking 19 overall victories in total.^[10]

DTM

In 2000, Tiemann joined the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series with Team Persson driving a Mercedes CLK in Original-Teile livery. Over 16 races, Tiemann scored 53 points and finished 10th in the Championship.^[11] In 2001, he switched to Manthey Racing, still driving a Mercedes, and over 3 races he scored his best finish in the series with 3rd at the Norisring.^[12] In 2002, Tiemann returned for 1 race at Hockenheim finishing 15th.

24 Hours Nürburgring

Tiemann's greatest successess have come in the 24 Hours Nürburgring. He won his first in 2003 in the E1-XP class with OPC Team Phoenix's Opel Astra V8.^[13] He returned with the same team in 2004 and finished in 10th, before switching to the A7 class with Manthey Racing in their Porsche for 2005. He would pilot the car to victory in 2006, the first of 4 back to back victories at the race; driving exclusively Manthey Porsche's.^[14][15][16]

Accident at Imola

In 2010, Tiemann joined the International GT Open driving an Audi R8. However, during the race at Imola on May 23, Tiemann collided with another car at the rolling start and was forced into a retaining wall at high speed. He sustained brain trauma, a fractured vertebra and broken ribs in the impact, and was placed in a medically induced coma to assist his recovery.^[17] He was moved to Germany, and later regained consciousness and mostly recovered, but has been unable to race due to the resulting neurological damage and other problems from the accident.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Racing record

Career Summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
1992	Formula König		?	?	?	?	?	46	10th
1993	Formula Renault Germany	Elf Team Formel Renault	8	0	0	1	2	177	10th
1994	Formula Renault Germany	Elf Team Formel Renault	8	2	1	2	7	351	1st
1995	German Formula 3 Championship	Elf Zakspeed	16	0	0	0	0	24	13th
1996	German Formula 3 Championship	Opel Team BSR	15	1	0	1	6	115	4th
	Monaco Grand Prix Formula 3		1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
1997	FIA GT Championship - GT1	AMG-Mercedes	9	1	0	0	5	34	5th
1998	FIA GT Championship - GT1	Team Persson Motorsport	9	0	0	0	1	19	9th
1999	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTP	AMG-Mercedes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2000	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Persson Motorsport	16	0	0	0	0	53	10th
2001	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Manthey Racing	3	0	0	0	1	26	12th
	V8Star Series	Zakspeed Motorsport	9	2	2	2	5	203	2nd
2002	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	Manthey Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	25th
	Porsche Supercup	Software AG-Manthey Racing	12	0	0	0	0	100	9th
2003	24 Hours of Nürburgring - E1-XP	OPC Team Phoenix	1	1	?	?	1	N/A	1st
2004	24 Hours of Nürburgring	Team Phoenix	1	0	0	?	0	N/A	10th
2005	24 Hours of Nürburgring - A7	Manthey Racing	1	0	?	?	0	N/A	6th
	Rolex Sports Car Series - DP	Orbit Racing	1	0	0	0	0	23	70th
	Le Mans Endurance Series - GT1	A-Level Engineering	3	0	0	0	1	9	11th
	American Le Mans Series - GT2	Alex Job Racing	1	0	0	0	1	22	17th
2006	Rolex Sports Car Series - DP	Alex Job Racing	1	0	0	0	0	12	102nd
	American Le Mans Series - GT2		4	0	0	0	2	41	16th
	FIA GT Championship - GT2	Manthey Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours Nürburgring - SP7		1	1	?	?	1	N/A	1st
2007	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SP7	Manthey Racing	1	1	0	?	1	N/A	1st
2008	Rolex Sports Car Series - DP	Bob Stallings/Riley-Matthews	1	0	0	0	0	18	55th
	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SP7	Manthey Racing	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
2008-09	Speedcar Series	Continental Circus	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2009	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SP7	Manthey Racing	1	1	?	?	1	N/A	1st
2010	International GT Open	Phoenix Racing	6	0	0	0	0	22	27th

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
2000	Persson Motorsport	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC 1 6	HOC 2 12	OSC 1 10	OSC 2 6	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 Ret	SAC 1 5	SAC 2 5	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 6	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 NC	OSC 2 7	NÜR 1 8	NÜR 2 12	HOC 1 15	HOC 2 5			10th	53
2001	Manthey-Eschmann Racing	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM	HOC QR	HOC CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	OSC QR 12	OSC CR 8	SAC QR 7	SAC CR 4	NOR QR 3	NOR CR 3	LAU QR	LAU CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	A1R QR	A1R CR	ZAN QR	ZAN CR	HOC QR	HOC CR	12th	26
2002	Manthey Racing	AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM 2001	HOC QR 15	HOC CR 15	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	DON QR	DON CR	SAC QR	SAC CR	NOR QR	NOR CR	LAU QR	LAU CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	A1R QR	A1R CR	ZAN QR	ZAN CR	HOC QR	HOC CR	25th	0

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

Complete 24 Hours of Nürburgring results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1994	Dürener Motorsportclub	Philipp Peter Peter Wyss	Rover 220 GSi	4	81	93rd	20th
2003	OPC Team Phoenix	Manuel Reuter Timo Scheider Volker Strycek	Opel Astra V8 Coupé	E1	143	1st	1st
2004	OPC Team Phoenix	Manuel Reuter Timo Scheider Volker Strycek	Opel Astra V8 Coupé	E1	129	10th	5th
2005	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Emmanuel Collard Lucas Luhr	Porsche 996 GT3-MR	A7	127	9th	6th
2006	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Lucas Luhr Mike Rockenfeller	Porsche 996 GT3-MR	SP7	151	1st	1st
2007	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	SP7	112	1st	1st
2008	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	SP7	148	1st	1st
2009	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	SP7	155	1st	1st
2010	Manthey Racing	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3-R	SP9 GT3	47	DNF	DNF

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1999	AMG-Mercedes	Mark Webber Jean-Marc Gounon	Mercedes-Benz CLR	LMGTP	0	DNS	DNS

24 Hours of Spa results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Manthey Racing	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	G2	518	14th	1st

Personal life

Tiemann lives in Mallorca, Spain with his wife and two children. He previously lived in Monaco. Following retirement from racing, he became a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and also runs a construction company building nursing homes in Germany.^[21][22] Tiemann's father is Hans-Jürgen Tiemann who won the 1997 and 1999 24 Hours of Nürburgring races, the latter with Sabine Schmitz.^[23][24]

References

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15. "Friday Favourite: The Porsche "twins" who usurped Audi's best". Autosport. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
16. "Porsche Manthey-Racing mark 25th anniversary with new partnership". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
17. Freeman, Glenn, ed. (2010-06-03). "Tiemann remains in coma". Autosport. 200 (10): 21.
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20. "Marcel Tiemann: So schwer war der Weg zurück ins Leben" (in German). motorsport-total.com. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
21. "Zehn Jahre nach dem Unfall: Marcel Tiemann glücklich im neuen Leben" (in German). motorsport-total.com. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
22. "Marcel Tiemann: Wie er sich sein neues Leben aufbaute" (in German). motorsport-total.com. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
23. "'Queen of the Nürburgring' and ex-Top Gear host Sabine Schmitz dies aged 51". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
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External links

• http://www.marceltiemann.com/
• http://www.marceltiemann.de/

Sporting positions
Preceded by Arnd Meier	German Formula Renault champion 1994	Succeeded by Ralf Druckenmüller
Preceded by Gianantonio Pacchioni	Monaco Formula Three Support Race Winner 1996	Succeeded by Nick Heidfeld