About Joachim Winkelhock
Joachim Winkelhock is a German motor racing driver. He competed in and won German Formula Three before moving onto Formula One. Winkelhock would compete in the 1989 season of F1 with the Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives where he would fail to qualify for a race before being replaced mid season with driver Yannick Dalmas. After his brief stint in Formula One Winkelhock would later race in Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft until 2003. The height of Winkelhock's career was his 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans win for BMW. Winkelhock is part of a racing family with his late older brother Manfred Winkelhock, his younger brother, Thomas Winkelhock, and his nephew, son of Manfred, Markus Winkelhock all being racing drivers. When BMW exited the DTM at the end of 1992, Winkelhock moved with the manufacturer and Schnitzer to the British Touring Car Championship, where he and teammate Steve Soper dominated the first half of the 1993 season. Winkelhock's next win was the 1994 Asia Pacific Touring Car Championship, and in 1995, he won the German Supertouring Championship (STW).
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