Sebastian Balthasar (

Cologne, Germany Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

, 30 August 1996) is a German

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Career

Karting

Balthasar started his racing career in the 2009

karting Kart racing or karting is a road racing variant of motorsport with open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on f ...

season. He became third in the

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Challenge Germany. A year later he entered the Ciao Thomas Knopper Memorial, the

ADAC ADAC, officially the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (), is Europe's largest motoring association. ADAC is the largest club (Verein) in Germany with around 21 million members. It would be more aptly described today as an individual mobi ...

Kart Championship, the German Junior Kart Championship and the 21° Trofeo Andrea Margutti, with a tenth place as his best result. He continued karting throughout 2011 and '12, again entering the German Junior Karts, besides racing in the DMV Kart Championship and the Euro Wintercup.

Formula racing

Balthasar made the switch to

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in 2012, when he entered the

ADAC Formel Masters ADAC Formel Masters was an ADAC sanctioned open wheel racing series based in Germany, held annually from 2008 to 2014. It was replacement of the local Formula BMW championship. The first season was in 2008 and is the main feeder series to the ATS F ...

, as the teammate of

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, which he would race again in 2014. With a best result of 4th, he finished 13th in the championship. He then entered the 2012-13 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship season, finishing 19th. Things changed when he entered the

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, finishing only 10th in the ATS Formel 3 Cup, but winning the ATS Formula 3 Trophy. Finally, in 2014 he is competing in FA1, part of

Acceleration 2014 Acceleration 2014 was a multi-day festival combining top class car and bike racing with live music and other entertainment. The festival was organised by the International Sport Racing Association (ISRA), based in the Netherlands, and was held si ...

Racing Record

Career Summary

Complete Formula Acceleration 1 results

(

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

Complete GP3 Series results

(

) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

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* * 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Cologne German racing drivers German Formula Three Championship drivers ADAC Formel Masters drivers MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship drivers German GP3 Series drivers {{Germany-autoracing-bio-stub 24H Series drivers Hilmer Motorsport drivers Performance Racing drivers Lamborghini Super Trofeo drivers Racing drivers from North Rhine-Westphalia