Haupt Hubert

Hubert Haupt

## **Overall results**

DATE OF BIRTH - 30.04.1969 - Munich, Germany

NATIONALITY - German

SUCCESSES

* 2022 - 1st - ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring - SP9 Pro-Am class
* 2020 - 3rd - 24H Series Continents Championship GT3 - Pro Cup
* 2020 - 2nd - GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Powered by AWS - Silver Cup
* 2019 - 3rd - ADAC TOTAL 24h Nürburgring Race - SP9
* 2019 - 2nd - Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup - Silver
* 2018 - 2nd - Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup - Silver Cup
* 2018 - 3rd - Total 24 Hours of Spa - Silver Cup
* 2015 - 1st - 24Hours Dubai - A6 Pro
* 2014 - 3rd - Dunlop 24Hours Dubai - A6 Pro

## Career

Hubert Haupt began his motorsport career in karting, in which he was active until 1989. In 1990 he switched to touring car racing and drove one season for Opel in the German Touring Car Challenge.  He then competed in 1991 and 1992 as a factory driver for the *SMS Schmid Motorsport* team with the Audi V8 quattro DTM Evo. In 1991, he achieved his greatest DTM success with third place in the second round of the AVUS.

In 1993, he drove a Lola T93/20 formula racing car in the U.S. Indy Lights Championship. The following year, returning to Germany, he took part in the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Porsche Supercup, where he finished ninth in the Carrera Cup and seventh in the Supercup in the annual standings.

After a four-year break, Haupt competed for Roock Racing in 1999 in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship and in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).  At the 24 Hours of Daytona, together with André Ahrlé, Raffaele Sangiuolo and David Warnock, he achieved seventh place and GT911 class victory in a Porsche 2 GT993 (Type 2).  Also in 1999, he competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, he and his teammates had to end the race prematurely due to engine failure.

The next season he drove again in the ALMS for Roock Racing. In the FIA GT Championship, he competed for Freisinger Motorsport. At the race at the Lausitzring, he celebrated his first victory in the FIA GT Championship together with Wolfgang Kaufmann.

In 2001, Hubert Haupt drove again in the DTM. There he was only able to finish in the points once with the Opel Astra V8 Coupé for the *Opel Euroteam*. In that year, he took part in an endurance race with a Porsche 911 GT3 R (Type 996) for the *Cirtek Motorsport* team at the 24 Hours of Daytona, which he was unable to finish due to engine failure.

The following year, he drove a season in the German V8-Star and finished 20th in the overall standings.  In 2004 he competed for the first time in the Mini Challenge Germany and finished in eleventh place. From 2006 to 2008 he started there again – but could not repeat the 2004 result.

In 2005 he competed in a Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello for the *Wieth Racing* team in the French GT Championship and with a Saleen S7-R for *Graham Nash Motorsport* in the FIA GT Championship in some races.

From 2011 Haupt drove a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and from 2016 in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in various racing championships and events such as the Blancpain Endurance Series, VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring or endurance races at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Dubai. He mostly competed for the *Black Falcon* racing team.

In 2018, he won the Silver Cup class in the Blancpain GT Series together with Abdulaziz Al Faisal and Gabriele Piana. In 2020, he finished second in the Silver Cup standings of the *GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup* together with Sergei Afanasyev.

In 2020, Haupt founded his own racing team, the *Haupt Racing Team (HRT)* which celebrated its first successes in its debut year in the Nürburgring Endurance Series (formerly VLN), the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring and in the GT World Challenge Europe. The following year, the Haupt Racing Team entered the DTM and won the drivers' championship with Maximilian Götz.

In 2021, Hubert Haupt also competed in the DTM at the races at the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring. This makes Haupt the first driver in history to compete as a driver in every DTM era.

Hubert Haupt lives and works in Munich. He is the majority shareholder of a German fitness equipment manufacturer and owner of a real estate holding company.