Hubert Haupt

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Hubert Haupt
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Haupt in 2021
Nationality Flag of Germany.svg German
Born (1969-04-30) 30 April 1969 (age 55)
Munich, West Germany (now Germany)
Championship titles
2024 FIA Motorsport Games GT Cup

Hubert Haupt (born 30 April 1969) is a German racing driver, racing team owner, real estate entrepreneur and investor.

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He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft in 1991 and 1992 for Audi, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters in 2001 for Opel and in 2021 for Mercedes-AMG. In 1999, he achieved the GT2 class victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona. In 2015, 2018 and 2020 he won the 24 Hours of Dubai. In 2020, he founded his own racing team.

Career

1989–2000

Haupt began his motorsport career in karting, in which he was active until 1989. In 1990, he switched to touring car racing and drove one season for Opel in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft. [1] He then started in 1991 and 1992 as a works driver for the SMS Schmid Motorsport team with the Audi V8 quattro DTM Evo. In 1991, he achieved his greatest DTM success with third place in the second race on the AVUS. [1] [2] In 1993, he drove a Lola T93/20 formula racing car in the Indy Lights Championship. The following year, when he returned to Germany, he took part in the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Porsche Supercup, finishing in ninth place in the Carrera Cup and seventh place in the Supercup in the annual rankings. [2]

After a four-year break, Haupt started for Roock Racing in the GT2 class of the FIA ​​GT Championship and in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) in 1999. [2] At the 24 Hours of Daytona he achieved seventh place and the GT2 class victory together with André Ahrlé, Raffaele Sangiuolo and David Warnock in a Porsche 911 GT2 (Type 993). [3] He also took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999. However, he and his team colleagues had to end the race early due to engine failure. [2] [3]

The next season he again drove in the ALMS for Roock Racing. In the FIA ​​GT Championship he started for Freisinger Motorsport. At the race at the Lausitzring he celebrated his first victory in the FIA ​​GT Championship together with Wolfgang Kaufmann. [1] [2] [3]

2000s

In 2001, Haupt drove in the new DTM. There he was only able to finish in the points once with the Opel Astra V8 Coupé for the Opel Euroteam. [1] [2] That year he only took part in an endurance race once with a Porsche 911 GT3 R (type 996) for the Cirtek Motorsport team at the 24 Hours of Daytona, which he was unable to finish due to engine failure. [3] The following year he drove a season in the German V8-Star and finished 20th in the overall ranking. [1] In 2004, he competed in the Mini Challenge Germany for the first time and finished in eleventh place. From 2006 to 2008 he competed there again - but was unable to repeat his 2004 result. [2] In 2005, he competed in a Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello for the Wieth Racing team in the French GT Championship and in a Saleen S7-R for Graham Nash Motorsport in the FIA ​​GT Championship in a few races. [1] [2] [3] [4]

2010s

From 2011, Haupt drove a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and from 2016 in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in various racing championships and events such as the Blancpain Endurance Series, VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring or endurance races at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Dubai. He mostly started for the Black Falcon racing team. [1] [2] [4]

In 2018, he competed in the Silver Cup class in the Blancpain GT Series together with Abdulaziz Al Faisal and Gabriele Piana, where he finished in second place. [1] [5] In 2020, he finished second in the Silver Cup classification of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup together with Sergey Afanasyev. [2]

2020s

In 2020, Haupt founded his own racing team, the Haupt Racing Team (HRT), [6] which celebrated its first successes in its debut year in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (formerly VLN), at the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring and in the GT World Challenge Europe. The following year, the Haupt Racing Team entered the DTM and won the drivers' championship with Maximilian Götz. [7]

In 2021, Haupt also started in the DTM at the races at the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring. This makes Haupt the first driver in history to have started as a driver in every DTM era. [8]

In 2024, Haupt competed in the FIA Motorsport Games GT Cup, alongside Finn Wiebelhaus, where they won the main race. [9] [10]

Personal life

Haupt lives and works in Munich. He is the majority shareholder of a German fitness equipment manufacturer and the owner of a real estate holding company. [11] [12] His son Henri Haupt is a tennis player. [13]

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  6. ↑ HauptRacingTeam – Internetseite: "Haupt Racing Team" . Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  7. ↑ FAZ – Internetseite: "Finale der DTM - Götz ist lachender Dritter". www.faz.net. 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
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  9. ↑ "HRT as Team Germany and Team Spain at The FIA Motorsport Games in Valencia". Haupt Racing Team. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  10. ↑ Jeffries, Tom (26 October 2024). "Motorsport Games: Froggatt/Cottingham take silver for Team UK in GT opener". Autosport.
  11. ↑ Milon – Internetseite: "Mit Hubert Haupt erhält milon einen neuen Mehrheitsgesellschafter". milon.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  12. ↑ Haupt-Immobilien – Internetseite: "Haupt Immobilien Holding". www.haupt-immobilien.de. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  13. ↑ Zum Tennis über den Kindergarten (PDF). Bayerischer Tennis-Verband. p. 22.
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