Christian Klien

**Christian Klien** (born 7 February 1983 in Hohenems, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian Formula One racing driver. In total he has scored 14 points in Formula One.

## Racing career

Klien started his motorsport career in his early teens. He raced in karting championships in both Austria and Switzerland. He moved up to Formula BMW. He won several titles in lower Formula series. Klien moved into Formula One in . He drove for  the Jaguar Racing team, alongside Mark Webber. At the end of 2004, Jaguar sold its Formula One team to Red Bull. The team was renamed _Red Bull Racing_. Klien shared a race seat with Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi. He stayed at Red Bull for  season.

In , Klien was replaced by Mark Webber. He was the test driver for Honda. For  and , he was the reserve and test driver for BMW Sauber.

In , Klien moved to become the test driver for HRT. For the Singapore Grand Prix Kling replaced Sakon Yamamoto. HRT reported that Yamamoto was sick from food posining. For the Brazilian Grand Prix, HRT announced that  Klien would race in place of Yamamoto. No reason was given.

### Career summary

|Season|Series|Team Name|Races|Poles|Wins|F/Laps|Podiums|Points|Final Placing|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|**1999**|Formula BMW Junior|ADAC Sport München|align="center"|20|align="center"|1|align="center"|3|||align="center"|193|align="center"|4th|||
|align="center"|**2000**|Formula BMW ADAC|Team Rosberg|align="center"|19|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|57|align="center"|10th|||
|align="center"|**2001**|Formula BMW ADAC|Team Rosberg|align="center"|19|align="center"|3|align="center"|5|||align="center"|232|align="center" bgcolor="#FFDF9F"|**3rd**|||
|align="center" rowspan=2|**2002**|Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup|JD Motorsport|align="center"|8|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|92|align="center"|6th|||
|Formula Renault 2000 Germany|JD Motorsport|align="center"|14|align="center"|2|align="center"|4|||align="center"|278|align="center" bgcolor="#FBFFBF"|**1st**|||||
|align="center" rowspan=2|**2003**|Formula Three Euroseries|Mücke Motorsport|align="center"|20|align="center"|6|align="center"|3|||align="center"|89|align="center" bgcolor="#DFDFDF"|**2nd**|||
|Masters of Formula Three|Mücke Motorsport|align="center"|1|align="center"|0|align="center"|1|||align="center"|N/A|align="center" bgcolor="#FBFFBF"|**1st**|||||
|align="center"|**2004**|Formula One|Jaguar|align="center"|18|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|3|align="center"|16th|||
|align="center"|**2005**|Formula One|Red Bull|align="center"|15|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|9|align="center"|15th|||
|align="center"|**2006**|Formula One|Red Bull|align="center"|15|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|2|align="center"|18th|||
|align="center"|**2007**|Formula One|Honda|align="center" colspan=7|Test driver|||||||||||||
|align="center" rowspan=2|**2008**|Formula One|BMW Sauber|align="center" colspan=7|Test driver|||||||||||||
|Le Mans 24 Hours|Peugeot Sport Total (LMP1)|align="center"|1|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|N/A|align="center" bgcolor="#FFDF9F"|**3rd**|||||
|align="center" rowspan=2|**2009**|Formula One|BMW Sauber|align="center" colspan=7|Test driver|||||||||||||
|Le Mans 24 Hours|Team Peugeot Total (LMP1)|align="center"|1|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|||align="center"|N/A|align="center"|6th|||||
|align="center"|**2010**|Formula One|Hispania Racing|align="center"|3|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|align="center"|0|align="center"|27|
 Season in progress

### Complete Formula One results

(key)
|Year|Entrant|Chassis|Engine|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|WDC|Points||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2004|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|AUS <small>11</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|MAL <small>10</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|BHR <small>14</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|SMR <small>14</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|ESP <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|MON <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|EUR <small>12</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|CAN <small>9</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|USA <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|FRA <small>11</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|GBR <small>14</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|GER <small>10</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|HUN <small>13</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|BEL <small>6</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|ITA <small>13</small>||bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|JPN <small>12</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|BRA <small>14</small>||||
||||||||||||||||bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|CHN <small>Ret</small>||||||||||||||||||||||
|2005||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|AUS <small>7</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|MAL <small>8</small>|bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|BHR <small>DNS</small>|bgcolor="#F0F8FF"|SMR <small>TD</small>|bgcolor="#F0F8FF"|ESP <small>TD</small>|bgcolor="#F0F8FF"|MON <small>TD</small>|bgcolor="#F0F8FF"|EUR <small>TD</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|CAN <small>8</small>|bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|USA <small>DNS</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|FRA <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|GBR <small>15</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|GER <small>9</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|HUN <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|TUR <small>8</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|ITA <small>13</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|BEL <small>9</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|BRA <small>9</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|JPN <small>9</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|CHN <small>5</small>|
|2006||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|BHR <small>8</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|MAL <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|AUS <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|SMR <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|EUR <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|ESP <small>13</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|MON <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|GBR <small>14</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|CAN <small>11</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|USA <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|FRA <small>12</small>|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|GER <small>8</small>|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|HUN <small>Ret</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|TUR <small>11</small>|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|ITA <small>11</small>|CHN <small></small>|JPN <small></small>|BRA <small></small>||||||
|2007||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|AUS|MAL|BHR <small></small>|ESP <small></small>|MON <small></small>|CAN|USA|FRA <small></small>|bgcolor="#F0F8FF"|GBR <small>TD</small>|EUR <small></small>|HUN <small></small>|TUR <small></small>|ITA <small></small>|BEL <small></small>|JPN <small></small>|CHN <small></small>|BRA <small></small>|||||||||||||||||||||
|2010||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|BHR <small></small>|AUS <small></small>|MAL <small></small>|CHN <small></small>|bgcolor="#f0f8ff"|ESP <small>TD</small>|MON <small></small>|TUR <small></small>|CAN <small></small>|bgcolor="#f0f8ff"|EUR <small>TD</small>|GBR <small></small>|GER <small></small>|HUN <small></small>|BEL <small></small>|ITA <small></small>|bgcolor="#efcfff"|SIN <small>Ret</small>|JPN <small></small>|KOR <small></small>|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|BRA <small>22</small>|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|ABU <small>20</small>|||||||||||||||
 Season in progress.

## References

<div class="references-small">
All Formula One race and championship results are taken from:
- _Official Formula 1 Website. Archive: Results for 2004 – Present seasons_ www.formula1.com  Retrieved 6 June 2006
</div>

## Other websites

- Christian Klien Official website
- Christian Klien profile and statistics
- Christian Klien statistics
- Christian Klien statistics at Driver Database. (includes pre-F1 career)

## Infobox (f1 driver)

- **name**: Christian Klien
- **image**: Christian Klien 2.jpg
- **caption**: Christian Klien signing autographs at the  United States Grand Prix
- **nationality**: Austrian
- **years**: -,
- **team(s)**: Jaguar Racing, Jaguar, Red Bull Racing, Red Bull, Hispania Racing, HRT
- **races**: 51 (49 starts)
- **championships**: 0
- **wins**: 0
- **podiums**: 0
- **points**: 14
- **poles**: 0
- **fastest laps**: 0
- **first race**: Australian Grand Prix
- **last race**: Singapore Grand Prix
- **last season**: 2010
- **last position**: 27th (2 points)