Hans Joachim Stuck

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Hans-Joachim Stuck

Formula One Career
Nationality	German
Active years	1974-1979
Team(s)	March, Brabham, Shadow, ATS
Grands Prix	93
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	2
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Grand Prix	1974 Argentine Grand Prix


Last Grand Prix	1979 United States Grand Prix

Hans-Joachim 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 79 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 will race 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 results

(Note: Grands Prix in bold denote points scoring races or poles.)

Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Team
1974	Marc	ARG	BRA	SAF	SPA	BEL	MON	SWE	DUT	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			Marc
1975	Marc	ARG	BRA	SAF	SPA	MON	BEL	SWE	DUT	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	ITA	USA				Marc
1976	Marc	BRA	SAF	USAW	SPA	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	CAN	USA	JPN		Marc
1977	Marc	ARG	BRA	SAF	USAW	SPA	MON	BEL	SWE	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	USA	CAN	JPN	Brab
1978	Shad	ARG	BRA	SAF	SAW	MON	BEL	SPA	SWE	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	USA	CAN		Shad
1979	ATS	ARG	BRA	SAF	USAW	SPA	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	CAN	USA			ATS