Siegfried Stohr (born 10 October 1952) is a former

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from

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. He participated in 13

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World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 15 March 1981. He scored no championship points.

Biography

Stohr started in the Italian Formula Italia class in 1976 finishing second in the championship. In 1977 he won the series. Stohr won the

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in 1978 driving a Chevron and progressed to

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for 1979 where he took second places at Vallelunga and Pau, with a Chevron before switching with less success to a

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. For 1980 he joined

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, driving a

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, and finished fourth in the championship with one win, at

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. Stohr joined Arrows for the 1981 Formula One season, as teammate to

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. Patrese proved considerably faster than Stohr, who struggled in his first few races. Just as Stohr began to improve, he was involved in a start-line accident at the

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; after Patrese's engine stalled, his mechanic Dave Luckett ran onto the grid to try to reignite it while the race had already started. Stohr crashed into the back of Patrese's car, seriously injuring Luckett. Stohr's confidence was badly affected by the accident and his performance throughout the rest of the season deteriorated, along with that of his team, relative to their rivals. Stohr retired before the end of the season after crashing out of qualifying for the

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. After Formula One, Stohr made a short lived comeback in the Italian Superturismo Championship in 1989 driving a BMW M3. A psychology graduate at the University of Padua, Stohr started a racing school and safe driving academy at the

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in 1982. In the 1990s he became a regular columnist for the Italian motorsport weekly ''Autosprint''. He also wrote columns about driving safety in several publications.

Career results

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Complete Formula One non-championship results

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References

* "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995.
Biography at F1 Rejects
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