Stefan Mücke
Stefan Mücke is a German professional racing driver.
Racing career
Born in Berlin, Mücke started his racing career in 1998, when he won the Formula BMW ADAC series, with his father's Mücke Motorsport team, also making their debut. He competed in German Formula Three for his father's team for the next three years, before moving to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for 2002. He raced Mercedes for Team Rosberg, Persson Motorsport and Mücke Motorsport in his four years in the series.In 2007, Mücke moved into sports car racing, in the FIA GT Championship for the AllInkl.com team in a Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT, and in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Charouz Racing Systems in their Lola. He continued to race with Charouz in 2008. In 2009 he competed at the Le Mans Series for Aston Martin Racing. He recorded three consecutive top-ten finishes in the LMP1 class at Le Mans.
On June 5, 2011, Mücke was involved in incident with Richard Westbrook during FIA GT1 World Championship race at Silverstone. First, Westbrook hit Mücke who spun as a result, while Westbrook damaged his own car. Mücke continued and clipped ahead of Westbrook who was driving down Hangar Straight. Both cars were wrecked as a result, and were out of the race. Mücke received 10-place grid penalty for the next race and he was also reported to DMSB to have his licence withdrawn.
Mücke again had his aggressive driving style questioned after at least two incidents in the 2015 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour. Both involved collisions with Bentleys on the difficult Mount Panorama Circuit. The first took out David Brabham at 'The Cutting', the second on the last corner of the last lap forced Matt Bell wide, depriving the latter of a podium place. "I think the guy needs a bit of a talking to." said Bell's co-driver Guy Smith.
For 2012, Mücke will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin Racing in a GTE-Pro class Aston Martin Vantage.
In the 80th, edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012, Mücke and the Aston Martin Racing got the third place in the GTE-Pro class along with his co-drivers the Mexican Adrián Fernández and the British Darren Turner, their Aston Martin Vantage 4.5 L-V8 covered a total of 332 laps, in the Circuit de la Sarthe without failure or serious mechanical problems. Also the team achieved the fastest lap of the category with 3 minutes and 54.928 seconds.
In 2016, Stefan joined Ford Chip Ganassi Racing UK's two-car FIA World Endurance Championship LMGTE Pro effort after eight seasons with Aston Martin.
Racing record
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 | Pts | |
| 2002 | Team Rosberg | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2001 | HOC QR 12 | HOC CR Ret | ZOL QR 15 | ZOL CR 11 | DON QR 15 | DON CR 13 | SAC QR 17 | SAC CR Ret | NOR QR 9 | NOR CR Ret | LAU QR 18 | LAU CR 16 | NÜR QR 12 | NÜR CR 17 | A1R QR 20 | A1R CR 14 | ZAN QR 19 | ZAN CR 15 | HOC QR 10 | HOC CR 8 | 20th | 0 |
| 2003 | Team Rosberg | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2002 | HOC 17 | ADR Ret | NÜR 15 | LAU DNS | NOR 15 | DON 11 | NÜR 12 | A1R 11 | ZAN 17 | HOC 14 | 20th | 0 | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Persson Motorsport | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2003 | HOC 18† | EST 14 | ADR 7 | LAU Ret | NOR 15† | SHA1 10 | NÜR 10 | OSC 17 | ZAN 17 | BRN 11 | HOC 10 | 15th | 2 | |||||||||
| 2005 | Mücke Motorsport | AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004 | HOC 7 | LAU 8 | SPA 12 | BRN Ret | OSC 11 | NOR Ret | NÜR 17 | ZAN Ret | LAU Ret | IST 9 | HOC 11 | 18th | 3 | |||||||||
| 2006 | Mücke Motorsport | AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2005 | HOC Ret | LAU 12 | OSC 12 | BRH 13 | NOR 4 | NÜR 11 | ZAN 7 | CAT 12 | BUG 15 | HOC Ret | 12th | 7 |
1 - Shanghai was a non-championship round.
- † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete GT1 World Championship results
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
| Year | Entrant | Class | Car | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
| 2012 | Aston Martin Racing | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | SEB 3 | SPA Ret | LMS 3 | SIL 2 | SÃO 2 | BHR 2 | FUJ 3 | SHA 1 | 35th | 7 | |
| 2013 | Aston Martin Racing | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | SIL 1 | SPA 4 | LMS 3 | SÃO 2 | COA Ret | FUJ 1 | SHA 1 | BHR Ret | 3rd | 125.5 | |
| 2014 | Aston Martin Racing | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | SIL 3 | SPA 4 | LMS 10 | COA 1 | FUJ 9 | SHA Ret | BHR 2 | SÃO 1 | 5th | 102 | |
| 2015 | Aston Martin Racing | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | SIL 5 | SPA 5 | LMS Ret | NÜR 6 | COA | 18th | 34 | ||||
| 2015 | Aston Martin Racing V8 | LMGTE Pro | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | FUJ 7 | SHA | BHR | 18th | 34 | ||||||
| 2016 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | LMGTE Pro | Ford GT | Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 | SIL 5 | SPA Ret | LMS 1 | NÜR 4 | MEX 11 | COA 13 | FUJ 2 | SHA 2 | BHR 6 | 4th | 118 |
| 2017 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | LMGTE Pro | Ford GT | Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 | SIL 4 | SPA 3 | LMS 6 | NÜR 6 | MEX 7 | COA 8 | FUJ 4 | SHA 4 | BHR 5 | 8th | 95 |
| 2018–19 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | LMGTE Pro | Ford GT | Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 | SPA 1 | LMS 3 | SIL 6 | FUJ 8 | SHA 7 | SEB 18 | SPA 10 | LMS 4 | 5th | 88 |