Armin Hahne | |
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Born | Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 10 September 1955
Nationality | German |
Relatives | Hubert Hahne (brother) Jörg van Ommen (nephew) |
Armin Hahne (born 10 September 1955 in Moers, West Germany [1] ) is a German racing driver, best known for his exploits in touring car racing. The highpoint of his career was winning both the 1982 and 1983 Spa 24 Hours driving BMW's. Another highlight of his career was driving in the factory supported Tom Walkinshaw Racing run Jaguar Racing team racing the Jaguar XJS coupes. Hahne stayed with the team as they transitioned to Rover Vitesse. In 1991 he drove for one race in the British Touring Car Championship for BMW.
Later in his career, Armin Hahne raced mostly on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, finishing second overall in 2008 in the Adac 24 hours, driving a Porsche 911 GT3-MR entered by Manthey Racing.
In 2011, he won the second round of the VLN race series, co-driving a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 entered by the Mamerow / Rowe Racing with Christian Mamerow.
He also is the youngest brother of Formula One driver Hubert Hahne as well as the uncle of fellow racing driver Jörg van Ommen.
Hahne's first start in the Australian classic was in 1984 when he partnered Englishman Jeff Allam in a Mobil Rover Racing Rover Vitesse to an easy Group A class win and an excellent 12th outright after starting 36th against much more powerful opposition (the Rover qualified 10 seconds slower than the pole winning Nissan Bluebird Turbo of George Fury and finished just 11 laps down on the winning V8 powered Holden VK Commodore of Peter Brock and Larry Perkins). A brief return to Jaguar in 1985 saw Hahne team with Australian racer John Goss to win the 1985 James Hardie 1000 [2] after starting sixth. On the Bathurst podium, Hahne would call this his greatest win.[ citation needed ]
His next time at Bathurst was in 1987 for the World Touring Car Championship round in an ill-fated Maserati Biturbo with Australian Kevin Bartlett. A troubled race week saw them start 34th and retire after only 29 laps with a broken differential. 1988 saw him in a Mark Petch Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 with New Zealand racer Robbie Francevic, the car engineered by its previous owner and Hahne's team boss in the 1988 ETCC, former Wolf Racing Formula One team owner Walter Wolf. Their strong charge finished on lap 103 due to overheating after they had been in either second or third place for the previous 70 laps. That was Hahne's last race in the Bathurst 1000.[ citation needed ]
Results sourced from Driver Database and History of Touring Car Racing. [3] [4]
Season | Series | Position | Car | Team |
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1976 | Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft | 38th | Ford Escort | Zakspeed |
1977 | Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft | 15th | Ford Escort | Zakspeed |
1978 | Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft | 9th | Ford Escort | Zakspeed |
1980 | Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft | 49th | BMW 320 | |
1982 | World Sportscar Championship | 55th | Mazda RX-7 | Karl Heinz Becker |
1984 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 31st | MG Metro Turbo | |
1984 | Australian Endurance Championship | 63rd | Rover Vitesse | Mobil Rover Racing |
1985 | European Touring Car Championship | 7th | Rover Vitesse | Tom Walkinshaw Racing |
1985 | Australian Endurance Championship | 10th | Jaguar XJS | JRA Ltd |
1986 | Nissan Mobil 500 Series | 7th | Rover Vitesse | Tom Walkinshaw Racing |
1986 | European Touring Car Championship | 11th | Rover Vitesse | Tom Walkinshaw Racing |
1987 | Nissan Mobil 500 Series | 3rd | Rover Vitesse | Tom Walkinshaw Racing |
1987 | World Touring Car Championship | 20th | Maserati Biturbo Ford Sierra RS500 | Pro Team Italia Eggenberger Motorsport |
1987 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 24th | Ford Sierra RS Cosworth | Wolf Racing |
1988 | European Touring Car Championship | 34th | Ford Sierra RS500 | Wolf Racing Eggengerber Motorsport |
1988 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 3rd | Ford Sierra RS500 | Wolf Racing |
1988 | Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship | NC | Ford Sierra RS500 | Mark Petch Motorsport Wolf Racing Australasia |
1989 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 26th | Ford Sierra RS500 | Wolf Racing |
1990 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 12th | BMW M3 Evolution | Zakspeed |
1990 | Italian Superturismo Championship | 21st | BMW M3 Evolution | Bigazzi M Team |
1991 | British Touring Car Championship | 15th | BMW M3 Evolution | Team Labbat's Vic Lee Motorsport |
1991 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 14th | BMW M3 Evolution | Zakspeed |
1992 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 21st | BMW M3 Evolution | Linder |
1993 | ADAC GT Cup Class 1 | 3rd | Honda NSX | Seikel Motorsport |
1993 | Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | 20th | BMW M3 Evolution BMW 318i | Linder |
1994 | ADAC GT Cup Class 1 | 2nd | Honda NSX | Kremer Racing |
1995 | FIA Touring Car World Cup | 8th | Honda Accord | Honda Team Linder |
1995 | Deutscher Tourenwagen Cup | 11th | Honda Accord | Honda Team Linder |
1996 | Super Tourenwagen Cup | 6th | Honda Accord | Honda Team Linder |
1998 | Super Tourenwagen Cup | 6th | Honda Accord | Honda Team Linder |
1998 | Super Tourenwagen Challenge | 38th | Ford Escort RS2000 | Wolf Ford Racing |
1998 | FIA GT Championship | 14th | Porsche 911 GT1 | Zakspeed |
2009 | VLN Endurance | 99th | ||
2010 | VLN Endurance | 43rd |
(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 | DC | Points |
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1987 | Pro Team Italia | Maserati Biturbo | MNZ ovr:17 cls:9 | JAR | DIJ Ret | NUR Ret | SPA | BNO ovr:24 cls:5 | SIL ovr:12 cls:4 | BAT Ret | CLD Ret | WEL | 20th | 79 | |
Eggenberger Motorsport | Ford Sierra RS500 | FJI ovr:17 cls:10 |
(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 | DC | Pts |
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1991 | BMW Team Labatt's | BMW M3 | SIL | SNE | DON | THR | SIL | BRH | SIL | DON 1 | DON 2 | OUL | BRH 1 | BRH 2 | DON | THR 3 | SIL | 15th | 12 |
(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 | DC | Pts |
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1994 | Team Doricome | Honda Civic Ferio | AUT 1 | AUT 2 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | TOK 1 | TOK 2 | SUZ 1 | SUZ 2 | MIN 1 | MIN 2 | AID 1 | AID 2 | TSU 1 | TSU 2 | SEN 1 | SEN 2 | FUJ 1 21 | FUJ 2 15 | NC | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | DC | Pts |
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1999 | Nismo | Nissan Skyline GT-R | GT500 | SUZ | FUJ 11 | SUG | MIN | FUJ | TAI | MOT | NC | 0 |
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
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1980 | BMW Belgium | Jean Wansart Claude De Wael | BMW 323i | -2500 | 391 | 15th | 3rd |
1982 | Bastos Joosen Juma | Hans Heyer Eddy Joosen Dieter Quester | BMW 528i | Div. 3 | 450 | 1st | 1st |
1983 | Bastos Juma Racing Team | Thierry Tassin Hans Heyer | BMW 635 CSi | Div. 3 | 488 | 1st | 1st |
1984 | Rover Gitanes | Jean-Louis Schlesser Steve Soper | Rover Vitesse | Div. 3 | NA | DNF | DNF |
1985 | Tom Walkinshaw Racing | Jean-Louis Schlesser Jeff Allam | Rover Vitesse | Div. 3 | 33 | DNF | DNF |
1986 | Tom Walkinshaw Racing | Jeff Allam Denny Hulme | Rover Vitesse | Div. 3 | 481 | 6th | 5th |
1990 | Bastos Bigazzi | Steve Soper Jean-Michel Martin | BMW M3 Evolution | DTM/Div. 2 | 462 | 4th | 3rd |
1992 | BMW Fina Bastos Team/Bigazzi | Bernard Béguin Eddy Joosen | BMW M3 Evolution | DTM | 503 | 3rd | 3rd |
1993 | Seikel Motorsport | Bertrand Gachot Kazuo Shimizu | Honda NSX | GT2 | 233 | DNF | DNF |
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
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1993 | TWR Jaguar Racing | David Leslie Win Percy | Jaguar XJ220 | GT | 6 | DNF | DNF |
1994 | Kremer Honda Racing | Christophe Bouchut Bertrand Gachot | Honda NSX | LMGT2 | 257 | 14th | 6th |
1995 | Honda Motor Co. Ltd. | Ivan Capelli Bertrand Gachot | Honda NSX GT1 | LMGT1 | 7 | DNF | DNF |
1997 | Schübel Engineering | Patrice Goueslard Pedro Lamy | Porsche 911 GT1 | LMGT1 | 331 | 5th | 3rd |
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
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1984 | Mobil Rover Racing | Jeff Allam | Rover Vitesse | Group A | 152 | 12th | 1st |
1985 | JRA Ltd | John Goss | Jaguar XJS | C | 163 | 1st | 1st |
1987 | Pro Team Italia | Kevin Bartlett Bruno Giacomelli | Maserati Biturbo | A | 29 | DNF | DNF |
1988 | Mark Petch Motorsport / Wolf Racing Australasia | Robbie Francevic | Ford Sierra RS500 | A | 103 | DNF | DNF |
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