Christian Abt
Christian Abt is a race car driver born in Kempten, Germany, into a family of amateur race drivers and car dealers.
His elder brother Hans-Jürgen Abt runs the Abt Sportsline Audi racing teams as well as their tuning company for Audi and Volkswagen.
Christian Abt started his career in motocross and then moved on to German Formula BMW. He went on to become the 1991 champion.
In 1992 he won the German Formula Three Championship B-Cup.
Driving a privately entered Audi A4 with the quattro 4-Wheel-Drive as this was banned for factory entrants, he won the German Supertouring Championship in 1999, the last season of this series, under controversial circumstances, taking the title only after the STW annulled the last lap of the final round of the Nürburgring.
Still considered as privateers, Abt entered the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with hastily built cars similar to Audi TT. When driving an Audi R8 for Joest Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that year, Abt called no other than Roland Asch to step in.
Racing record
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | DC | Points |
| 2000 | Abt Sportsline 1 | Abt-Audi TT-R 2000 | HOC 1 Ret | HOC 2 Ret | OSC 1 | OSC 2 | NOR 1 Ret | NOR 2 DNS | SAC 1 Ret | SAC 2 DNS | NÜR 1 18 | NÜR 2 18 | LAU 1 C | LAU 2 C | OSC 1 10 | OSC 2 Ret | NÜR 1 19 | NÜR 2 14 | HOC 1 Ret | HOC 2 Ret | 19th | 1 | ||
| 2001 | Team Abt Sportsline | Audi TT-R DTM 2001 | HOC QR 10 | HOC CR 10 | NÜR QR NC | NÜR CR Ret | OSC QR 8 | OSC CR 6 | SAC QR 3 | SAC CR 9 | NOR QR 5 | NOR CR 17 | LAU QR 5 | LAU CR 18 | NÜR QR 3 | NÜR CR DSQ | A1R QR 18 | A1R CR DNS | ZAN QR 1 | ZAN CR 2 | HOC QR 8 | HOC CR 11 | 10th | 29 |
| 2002 | Abt Sportsline | Abt-Audi TT-R | HOC QR 4 | HOC CR 7 | ZOL QR 5 | ZOL CR 2 | DON QR 12 | DON CR 2 | SAC QR 8 | SAC CR 16† | NOR QR DSQ | NOR CR DNS | LAU QR 3 | LAU CR 7 | NÜR QR 5 | NÜR CR 9 | A1R QR 12 | A1R CR 9 | ZAN QR 2 | ZAN CR 7 | HOC QR 5 | HOC CR 13 | 7th | 15 |
| 2003 | Abt Sportsline | Abt-Audi TT-R 2003 | HOC 20† | ADR DSQ | NÜR 8 | LAU 9 | NOR 7 | DON Ret | NÜR Ret | A1R Ret | ZAN 11 | HOC 9 | 12th | 3 | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline | Audi A4 DTM 2004 | HOC Ret | EST 10 | ADR Ret | LAU 9 | NOR 14† | SHA1 Ret | NÜR 13 | OSC 9 | ZAN Ret | BRN 12 | HOC 8 | 16th | 1 | |||||||||
| 2005 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi A4 DTM 2004 | HOC 4 | LAU 9 | SPA 10 | BRN 6 | OSC 12 | NOR 2 | NÜR 10 | ZAN 10 | LAU Ret | IST Ret | HOC 14 | 9th | 16 | |||||||||
| 2006 | Audi Sport Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2005 | HOC Ret | LAU Ret | OSC 17 | BRH 5 | NOR 10 | NÜR 10 | ZAN Ret | CAT 10 | BUG 9 | HOC 7 | 13th | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Audi Sport Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2006 | HOC Ret | OSC 10 | LAU 17† | BRH 8 | NOR 10 | MUG Ret | ZAN 6 | NÜR 15 | CAT 11† | HOC 15 | 16th | 4 |
1 - Shanghai was a non-championship round.
- † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.