Peter Terting is a German

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driver, born on 19 February 1984 in

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. He won the

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Cup in 2002, earning him a

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drive for Abt Sportsline in 2003, although this proved to be too big a step up, and the teenager struggled to be competitive. After winning the 2004 German

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Championship, he earned a full-time drive in the

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(WTCC) for

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, joining

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and

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. He finished 12th overall, which included taking his first win in

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, having finished 7th in race 1 and thus started 2nd in race 2 (the top 8 positions on the grid are reversed for the 2nd race of the meeting

For 2006 he raced for SEAT's Team Deutschland in the WTCC, improving to finish 9th overall. In both seasons he finished 18 of the 20 races. Terting lost his SEAT drive for the 2007 World Touring Car Championship season, 2007 season. He instead made two starts in

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and two in the

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in a

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Sunred SR21. He returned to SEAT in WTCC for the final two races of the season. In 2008 Terting again did not have a full-time drive. He made two starts in

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driving a Kessel Racing

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and drove in the

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in a R-Line

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, finishing 10th in class. He also drove a VW in the race in 2010. He was engaged to British racing driver

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before entering a relationship with German driver

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, some 14 years his junior.

Racing record

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

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) ¹ - A non-championship one-off race was held in 2004 at the streets of Shanghai, China.

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

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

Complete TCR Europe Series results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance.

References

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