Lucas Auer

**Lucas Auer** (born 11 September 1994) is an Austrian born racing driver who competes for B-MAX with Motopark in the 2019 Super Formula Championship. The nephew of ex-Formula One racer Gerhard Berger, **Auer** arrived in Super Formula as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team, having spent four seasons in the DTM.

## Background

Auer's career began in karting, with the Austrian ultimately moving to the JK Racing Asia Series in 2011. Auer duly won his maiden race car series, a triumph that earned him a seat in the German Formula 3 Championship, as well as the Toyota Racing Series. The Austrian would finish as runner up in Germany, while also claiming sixth in the TRS.

### A Mercedes Motive

Auer was promoted in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship for 2013, and duly claimed a maiden win en-route to fourth in the series. Auer also secured third in the TRS at the end of the season, before claiming third in European F3 for 2014. That season saw Auer appear as a regular front runner in F3, prompting Mercedes to sign him as a factory driver after he finished fourth for a second successive campaign.

Mercedes put Auer into their DTM programme for 2015, with the Austrian joining the privateer ART Grand Prix squad. A fairly anonymous maiden season saw Auer move to the Austrian based Mücke team for 2016, with the Austrian recording his maiden victory later that season. A move to the factory Mercedes DTM team followed, with Auer claiming three wins in a title challenging campaign.

2017 also saw Auer make his first moves in the world of sportscars, claiming a maiden win in the ADAC GT Masters series. 2018 saw Auer compete in numerous series for the three pointed-star, although he was unable to hit the heights he had achieved in 2017.

## Super Formula History

Auer left the DTM after joining the Red Bull Junior Team in December 2018, after Mercedes ended their DTM programme. Auer duly joined the Honda backed B-MAX with Motopark squad alongside Harrison Newey, the son of Red Bull F1 designer Adrian Newey, with the Austrian racer battling to seventh place in the season opener from the back of the grid.

## Full Super Formula Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Lucas Auer's career in Super Formula in statistical form.

### Super Formula Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Lucas Auer during their SF career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Lucas Auer's full Super Formula record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 'THE RED BULL JUNIOR TEAM AND THE HONDA FORMULA DREAM PROJECT', *juniorteam.redbull.com*, (Red Bull, 05/12/2018), https://juniorteam.redbull.com/m/article/red-bull-junior-team-and-honda-formula-dream-project, (Accessed 25/04/2019)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Phillip Horton, 'Dan Ticktum's Super Formula move confirmed, Lucas Auer joins Red Bull scheme', *motorsportweek.com*, (Motorsport Week, 05/12/2018), https://www.motorsportweek.com/news/id/20924, (Accessed 06/05/2019)
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 'Lucas Auer', *driverdb.com*, (DriverDB AB, 2019), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/lucas-auer/, (Accessed 06/05/2019)
4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Suz19R`

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