Christian Klien

Christian Klien (born 7 February 1983 in Hohenems, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian Formula One racing driver. In total he has scored 14 points in Formula One.

Christian Klien

Christian Klien signing autographs at the 2005 United States Grand Prix
Born	(1983-02-07) 7 February 1983 (age 41)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Austrian
Active years	2004-2006, 2010
Teams	Jaguar, Red Bull, HRT
Entries	51 (49 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	14
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2004 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry	2010 Singapore Grand Prix
2010 position	27th (2 points)

Racing career

Klien driving for Jaguar at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix.

Klien started his motorsport career in his early teens. He raced in karting championships in both Austria and Switzerland. He moved up to Formula BMW. He won several titles in lower Formula series. Klien moved into Formula One in 2004. He drove for the Jaguar Racing team, alongside Mark Webber. At the end of 2004, Jaguar sold its Formula One team to Red Bull. The team was renamed Red Bull Racing. Klien shared a race seat with Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi. He stayed at Red Bull for 2006 season.

In 2007, Klien was replaced by Mark Webber. He was the test driver for Honda. For 2008 and 2009, he was the reserve and test driver for BMW Sauber.

In 2010, Klien moved to become the test driver for HRT. For the Singapore Grand Prix Kling replaced Sakon Yamamoto. HRT reported that Yamamoto was sick from food posining.^[1] For the Brazilian Grand Prix, HRT announced that Klien would race in place of Yamamoto. No reason was given.^[2]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Final Placing
1999	Formula BMW Junior	ADAC Sport München	20	1	3			193	4th
2000	Formula BMW ADAC	Team Rosberg	19	0	0			57	10th
2001	Formula BMW ADAC	Team Rosberg	19	3	5			232	3rd
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	JD Motorsport	8	0	0			92	6th
	Formula Renault 2000 Germany	JD Motorsport	14	2	4			278	1st
2003	Formula Three Euroseries	Mücke Motorsport	20	6	3			89	2nd
	Masters of Formula Three	Mücke Motorsport	1	0	1			N/A	1st
2004	Formula One	Jaguar	18	0	0			3	16th
2005	Formula One	Red Bull	15	0	0			9	15th
2006	Formula One	Red Bull	15	0	0			2	18th
2007	Formula One	Honda	Test driver
2008	Formula One	BMW Sauber	Test driver
	Le Mans 24 Hours	Peugeot Sport Total (LMP1)	1	0	0			N/A	3rd
2009	Formula One	BMW Sauber	Test driver
	Le Mans 24 Hours	Team Peugeot Total (LMP1)	1	0	0			N/A	6th
2010	Formula One	Hispania Racing	3	0	0	0	0	0	27

^* Season in progress

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	WDC	Points
2004	Jaguar Racing	Jaguar R5	Cosworth CR-6 3.0 L V10	AUS 11	MAL 10	BHR 14	SMR 14	ESP Ret	MON Ret	EUR 12	CAN 9	USA Ret	FRA 11	GBR 14	GER 10	HUN 13	BEL 6	ITA 13		JPN 12	BRA 14		16th	3
		Jaguar R5B																	CHN Ret
2005	Red Bull Racing	Red Bull RB1	Cosworth TJ2005 3.0 L V10	AUS 7	MAL 8	BHR DNS	SMR TD	ESP TD	MON TD	EUR TD	CAN 8	USA DNS	FRA Ret	GBR 15	GER 9	HUN Ret	TUR 8	ITA 13	BEL 9	BRA 9	JPN 9	CHN 5	15th	9
2006	Red Bull Racing	Red Bull RB2	Ferrari 056 2.4 L V8	BHR 8	MAL Ret	AUS Ret	SMR Ret	EUR Ret	ESP 13	MON Ret	GBR 14	CAN 11	USA Ret	FRA 12	GER 8	HUN Ret	TUR 11	ITA 11	CHN	JPN	BRA		18th	2
2007	Honda Racing F1 Team	Honda RA107	Honda RA807E 2.4 L V8	AUS	MAL	BHR	ESP	MON	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR TD	EUR	HUN	TUR	ITA	BEL	JPN	CHN	BRA			---	---
2010	Hispania Racing F1 Team	Hispania F110	Cosworth CA2010 2.4 L V8	BHR	AUS	MAL	CHN	ESP TD	MON	TUR	CAN	EUR TD	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SIN Ret	JPN	KOR	BRA 22	ABU 20	27	0

^* Season in progress.

References

All Formula One race and championship results are taken from:

• Official Formula 1 Website. Archive: Results for 2004 – Present seasons www.formula1.com Retrieved 6 June 2006

1. Cooper, Adam (2010-09-24). "F1: Klien Makes Race Comeback With HRT". formula-one.speedtv.com. Speed Channel, Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-09-26. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
2. "Klien to replace Yamamoto in Brazil". motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2010-11-04.^{[permanent dead link]}

Other websites

• Christian Klien Official website
• Christian Klien profile and statistics Archived 2005-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Christian Klien statistics
• Christian Klien statistics at Driver Database. (includes pre-F1 career)