Siegfried Stohr (born 10 October 1952) is an Italian former racing driver. He participated in 13 Formula One 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 Italian Formula Three Championship in 1978 driving a Chevron and progressed to Formula two for 1979 where he took second places at Vallelunga and Pau, with a Chevron before switching with less success to a March. For 1980, he joined Alan Docking Racing, driving a Toleman, and finished fourth in the championship with one win, at Enna.
Stohr joined Arrows for the 1981 Formula One season, as teammate to Riccardo Patrese. 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 1981 Belgian Grand Prix; 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 Italian Grand Prix.
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 Misano circuit 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 (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Trivellato Racing Team March 792 BMW SIL HOC THR NÜR VLL MUG PAU HOC ZAN PER MIS DON 8th 17 Alan Docking Racing Toleman TG280 Hart THR HOC NÜR VLL PAU SIL ZOL MUG ZAN PER MIS HOC 4th 29
Complete Formula One World Championship results (key) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 WDC Points 1981 Arrows Racing Team Arrows A3 Cosworth V8 USW BRA ARG SMR BEL MON ESP FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA CAN CPL NC 0
Complete Formula One non-championship results (key) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 1981 Arrows Racing Team Arrows A3 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 RSA
References
"The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995. Biography at F1 Rejects