Fischer Racing GmbH is an

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team founded by Erhard Fischer in 2006 and based in

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. Initially created to compete in the German

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Supercopa, the team expanded in 2009, purchasing

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s to compete in the German

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series as well as the FIA GT3 European Championship. During their 2009 European Championship campaign Fischer Racing's Florian Gruber and Christoffer Nygaard won the second race at

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. At the end of the 2009 season Fischer Racing was named a partner with Aston Martin Racing, serving as one of two teams to campaign the Aston Martin DBR9 in the inaugural

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. Fischer Racing will compete under the ''Young Driver AMR'' title in association with their partners Aston Martin Racing and the Young Driver program. Fischer will retain 2009 driver Nygaard while adding Aston Martin factory drivers

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, and Stefan Mücke. Fischer have also been invited to participate in the

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, a first for the team. Fischer will also continue their participation in the FIA GT3 European Championship, remaining with their Ford GTs. In 2013, Fischer Racing made an official partnership with

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and Aston Martin Racing to run an Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE in the

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GTE-Am class. During the

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, Danish driver Allan Simonsen crashed the Young Driver entry at Tetre Rouge and subsequently succumbed to his injuries.

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