Johannes Seidlitz (born 13 June 1990) is a German

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non ...

from Wassertrüdingen. He currently competes in the

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championship.

Racing career

Single-seaters

After competing in

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between 2001 and 2006, Johannes moved onto

Formula BMW Formula BMW was a junior racing formula for single seater cars. It was positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category. Like Formula Ford, it was intended to function as the young ...

, competing in Formula BMW ADAC in 2007. He moved into the British Formula Renault BARC series for 2008. He collected four wins and two second places on his way to second in the final championship standings, finishing behind Ollie Hancock for Mark Burdett Motorsport.

DTM (2009-)

Despite being relatively unknown, even in his native Germany, he was signed by Colin Kolles to drive a two-year-old

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for his DTM team for 2009. He finished thirteenth on his debut at

Hockenheimring The Hockenheimring, officially Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg () is a motor racing circuit situated in the Rhine valley near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Amongst other mot ...

, but suffered a crash in free practice ahead of the second round at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, damaging his car beyond repair for the race, or the following race at the

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ADAC GT Masters (2010-)

He is currently racing with Team Rosberg in an Audi R8 LMS. Two of his team mates are Kenneth Heyer and Michael Ammermüller.

Racing record

Complete DTM results

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

References

External links

Official Website
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