Moritz Löhner

Moritz Löhner; (born 3 November 1998) is a Germany professional Esports Sim racing competing across various championships on different racing simulation platforms..
In 2021 he got the opportunity to race in real life, competing in the DTM Trophy, with FK Performance. His goal is to be a "Hybrid Racer", competing successfully both in the real and the virtual world.
==SimRacing Esports Career==
Moritz' father Peter Löhner introduced him to motorsports at a very young age, visiting the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft at the Norisring and also watching all kinds of racing on TV.
That got him interested in playing racing games on consoles and especially the ones his Dad had on the PC - Race 07, rFactor and GTR2.
For a long time Löhner raced in fun leagues such as the "Bierbuden" until the new era of Sim racing games have been released, specifically interesting for Moritz was RaceRoom Racing Experience.
At the time EURONICS Gaming picked him up into their Sim racing team, which pushed him into an esports environment for the first time and later he managed to get some race wins of big championships and compete at offline/on site/LAN events (= meaning competitors race each other attending an event with the simulators standing right next to each other).
In 2016 Löhner decided to try out iRacing and after a few months of racing on the platform he managed to qualify for the 2017 VRS GT iRacing World Championship with his new team CORE Motorsports.
In 2018 Löhner qualified for the iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series which was the most competitive simracing championship at the time and it's also when he got picked up by Williams Esports (the official esports team of the Williams Grand Prix Engineering|Williams Racing F1 Team) as one of their first drivers for the iRacing roster.
In 2019 Löhner's focus shifted towards RaceRoom once again and he picked up his first championship win in the ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship.
In 2020 he had his biggest success, first with winning the Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Deutschland, soon after the DTM Esports and defending his title of the previous year, the ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship.
==Real Life Racing==
===DTM Trophy Test===
After winning the DTM Esports Championship in 2020 Löhner's prize was to test the Mercedes AMG GT4 of CV Performance at the official Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters test days at the Lausitzring - that being his first time in a real race car.
He was second fastest in the first session.
===DTM Trophy Monza===
On Wednesday in the week of the first race (16 June 2021), Löhner announced that he will compete in the first race of the 2021 DTM Trophy with FK Performance in a BMW M4 GT4 making his debut in real life racing.
In Friday practice Löhner was second fastest in Free Practice 1 and the fastest driver in Free Practice 2.
On Saturday he managed to qualify the car on front row in second place and only lost one position in the race to finish third in his first race of his career.
Sunday's qualifying found Moritz in fourth place but he fell down to ninth in the second race.
In the following week Löhner was voted the Driver of the Weekend by the Automobilclub von Deutschland.
===Full season in the DTM Trophy===
Following the good result in his first racing weekend FK Performance announced Media Markt and Xiaomi Germany as the main sponsors for Löhner's car just before the second racing weekend at the Lausitzring securing him a cockpit for the full season.
==Achievements==
===DTM Trophy===
(:Template:Motorsport driver results legend|key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
Year	Team 	Car 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	Pos	Points
2021	FK Performance	BMW M4 GT4	Monza Circuit|MON1	Monza Circuit|MON2	Lausitzring|LAU1	Lausitzring|LAU2	Zolder|ZOL1	Zolder|ZOL2	Nürburgring|NÜR1	Nürburgring|NÜR2	Red Bull Ring|RBR1	Red Bull Ring|RBR2	TT Circuit Assen|ASS1	TT Circuit Assen|ASS2	Hockenheimring|HOC1	Hockenheimring|HOC2	7th	31
Season still in progress.
===Esports Achievements===
Year	Simulation	Event 	Result
2020	RaceRoom 	ADAC GT Masters Esports 	1st
2020	RaceRoom 	DTM Esports 	1st
2020	RaceRoom 	CUPRA Simracing Series 	2nd
2020	RaceRoom 	Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Deutschland	1st
2020	RaceRoom 	WTCR Esports PreSeason 	2nd
2019	RaceRoom 	CUPRA Simracing Series 	3rd
2019	RaceRoom 	ADAC GT Masters Esports 	1st
2019	iRacing 	Porsche Simracing Trophy (SimExpo) 	2nd
2019	RaceRoom 	Team Endurance 	2nd
2019	RaceRoom 	ADAC GT Masters Esports Final 	2nd
2018	iRacing 	Porsche Simracing Trophy (SimExpo) 	2nd
2018	RaceRoom 	Super Racer 	2nd
2018	RaceRoom 	WTCR Esports Launch Event 	6th
2018	iRacing 	Bathurst 12 Hours Porsche Class 	1st
2017	RaceRoom 	Mercedes-AMG eRacing Final 	3rd
2017	iRacing 	24h Nürburgring Porsche Class 	1st
2017	iRacing 	NEO Endurance Championship GT Class 	1st
2017	iRacing 	24h of Daytona 	2nd
2016	GT Sport 	GT Sport Gamescom Final 	1st
2016	RaceRoom 	DTM Winter Cup 	3rd
===ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship===
(:Template:Motorsport driver results legend|key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
Year	Team 	Car 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	15 	Pos	Points
2019	Williams Esports 	Mercedes AMG GT3	Nürburgring|NÜR1 	Nürburgring|NÜR2 	Hockenheimring|HOC1	Sachsenring|SAC1 	Sachsenring|SAC2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1st	74
2020	MAHLE RACING TEAM	Mercedes AMG GT3	Lausitzring|LAU1 	Nürburgring|NÜR1 	Hockenheimring|HOC1	Sachsenring|SAC1 	Red Bull Ring|RBR1 	Zandvoort|ZAN1 	Oschersleben|OSC1	Oschersleben|OSC2	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1st	127
2021	Dörr Esports 	Porsche 911 GT3 	Oschersleben|OSC1	Oschersleben|OSC2	Red Bull Ring|RBR1 	Red Bull Ring|RBR2	Circuit Zandvoort|ZAN1	Circuit Zandvoort|ZAN2	Nürburgring|NÜR1 	Nürburgring|NÜR2 	Lausitzring|LAU1	Lausitzring|LAU2	Sachsenring|SAC1	Sachsenring|SAC2	Hockenheimring|HOC1	Hockenheimring|HOC2	Hockenheimring|HOC3	- 	-
Season still in progress.
===DTM Esports Championship===
(:Template:Motorsport driver results legend|key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
Year	Team 	Car 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	Pos	Points
2020	Williams Esports Bosch Motorsport	BMW M4 Turbo DTM	Nürburgring|NÜR1	Nürburgring|NÜR2	Zolder|ZOL1	Zolder|ZOL2	Spa-Francorchamps|SPA1	Spa-Francorchamps|SPA2	Algarve International Circuit|ALG1	Red Bull Ring|RBR1	Hockenheimring|HOC1	1st	238
Category:1998 births
Category:German racing drivers
Category:German people