Hans-Joachim Stuck

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Hans-Joachim Stuck
Nationality  German
Formula One World Championship career
Active years	1974-1979
Teams	March, Brabham, Shadow, ATS
Races	81 (74 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	2
Career points	29
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1974 Argentine Grand Prix
Last race	1979 United States Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1972, 1972, 1973, 1972, 1999
Teams	Ford, BMW Motorsport, BASF Cassetten Team GS Sport, Porsche
Best finish	1st (1986), 1987
Class wins	3 (1999)

Hans-Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck (born January 1, 1951) is a German racing driver who has competed in Formula One and many other categories. He is the son of the legendary Hans Stuck. As a young boy, his father taught him driving on the Nürburgring, which led to the victory of the 19-year-old in the first 24 hours race there in 1970. He won there again in 1998 and 2004, too, each time with a BMW touring car.

The always friendly and funny, tall and blond Bavarian living in Austria is nicknamed Strietzel after a sweet pie. He is also nicknamed the Rainmeister for his ability to race on a wet track. [1]

In 1972, Stuck teamed up with Jochen Mass to drive a Ford Capri RS2600 to victory at the Spa 24 Hours endurance race in Belgium. His campaigns racing the BMW 3.0 CSL "Batmobile" were very successful in 1974 and 1975, in the German DRM as well as in the USA together with Ronnie Peterson. Later in the 1970s he raced the turbo-charged BMW 320i.

After some success in Formula 2 with a March-BMW, he also entered F1 with March. Overall, Stuck participated in 81 Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1974. He achieved 2 podiums and scored 29 championship points. Stuck was quite successful at Brabham-Alfa in 1977, leading the 1977 USA West Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in the rain, but was replaced by Niki Lauda for 1978. Stuck missed an opportunity to join Williams F1 just before this team became successful.

Due to his height of 194cm, he did not fit well into the F1 cars of the late 1970s that had the cockpit moved forward. Leaving F1 at that time probably spared him bad injuries to the leg, as suffered by Ronnie Peterson, Clay Regazzoni, Marc Surer and others.

Stuck continued racing touring and sports cars all over the world, winning the 24 hours of Le Mans twice with a Porsche 962, was DTM-Champion in 1990 with Audi before returning to Porsche until the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1997. Since then, he has been back at BMW.

In 2006, Stuck raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired Formula One drivers after scoring 6th in the first race event at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa on 11-13 November 2005.

[edit] Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1974	March Engineering	March 741	Cosworth V8	ARG Ret	BRA Ret	RSA 5	ESP 4	BEL Ret	MON Ret	SWE	NED Ret	FRA DNQ	GBR Ret	GER 7	AUT 11	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA DNQ			16th	5
1975	Lavazza March	March 751	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	USA 8				-	0
1976	March Racing	March 761	Cosworth V8	BRA 4	RSA 12		ESP Ret	BEL Ret	MON 4	SWE Ret	FRA 7	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA 5	JPN Ret		13th	8
	Theodore Racing					USW Ret
1977	Team Rothmans International	March 761B	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA Ret															11th	12
	Martini Racing	Brabham BT45B	Alfa Romeo Flat-12				USW Ret	ESP 6	MON Ret	BEL 6	SWE 10	FRA Ret	GBR 5	GER 3	AUT 3	NED 7	ITA Ret	USA Ret	CAN Ret	JPN 7
1978	Shadow Racing Team	Shadow DN8	Cosworth V8	ARG 17	BRA Ret	RSA DNQ															18th	2
		Shadow DN9					USW DNS	MON Ret	BEL Ret	ESP Ret	SWE 11	FRA 11	GBR 5	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA Ret	USA Ret	CAN Ret
1979	ATS Wheels	ATS D2	Cosworth V8	ARG DNS	BRA Ret	RSA Ret	USW DSQ	ESP 14	BEL 8	MON Ret	FRA DNS	GBR DNQ	GER Ret								20th	2
		ATS D3												AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA 11	CAN Ret	USA 5

[edit] External links

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Herbert Adamzyck	Guia Race winner 1980	Succeeded by Manfred Winkelhock
Preceded by Helmut Greiner	Guia Race winner 1983	Succeeded by Tom Walkinshaw
Preceded by Stefan Bellof	World Sportscar Championship Champion 1985, with Derek Bell	Succeeded by Derek Bell (1986)
Preceded by Klaus Ludwig Paolo Barilla Louis Krages	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1986 with: Derek Bell Al Holbert	Succeeded by Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck Al Holbert
Preceded by Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck Al Holbert	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1987 with: Derek Bell Al Holbert	Succeeded by Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries Andy Wallace
Preceded by Roberto Ravaglia	German Touring Car Champion 1990	Succeeded by Frank Biela