Christian Abt

Christian Abt (born 8 May 1967) is a race car driver born in Kempten, Germany, into a family of amateur race drivers and car dealers.

Christian Abt
Christian Abt in 2008
Nationality	German
Born	(1967-05-08) 8 May 1967 Kempten, West Germany
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
Years active	2000–2007
Former teams	Abt Sportsline Joest Racing Phoenix Racing
Starts	102
Wins	1
Podiums	9
Poles	2
Fastest laps	8
Best finish	7th in 2002
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1999–2000
Teams	Audi Sport UK Audi Sport Team Joest
Best finish	3rd (2000)
Class wins	0

His elder brother Hans-Jürgen Abt runs the Abt Sportsline Audi racing teams as well as their tuning company for Audi and Volkswagen.

Christian Abt started his career in motocross and then moved on to German Formula BMW. He went on to become the 1991 champion.

In 1992 he won the German Formula Three Championship B-Cup.

Driving a privately entered Audi A4 with the quattro 4-Wheel-Drive as this was banned for factory entrants, he won the German Supertouring Championship (STW) in 1999, the last season of this series, under controversial circumstances, taking the title only after the STW annulled the last lap of the final round of the Nürburgring.

Still considered as privateers, Abt entered the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with hastily built cars similar to Audi TT. When driving an Audi R8 for Joest Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that year, Abt called no other than Roland Asch to step in.

Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1999	Audi Sport UK Ltd.	Stefan Johansson Stéphane Ortelli	Audi R8C	LMGTP	55	DNF	DNF
2000	Audi Sport Team Joest	Michele Alboreto Rinaldo Capello	Audi R8	LMP900	365	3rd	3rd

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2000	Abt Sportsline 1	Abt-Audi TT-R 2000	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 Ret	OSC 1	OSC 2	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 DNS	SAC 1 Ret	SAC 2 DNS	NÜR 1 18	NÜR 2 18	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 10	OSC 2 Ret	NÜR 1 19	NÜR 2 14	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 Ret			19th	1
2001	Team Abt Sportsline	Audi TT-R DTM 2001	HOC QR 10	HOC CR 10	NÜR QR NC	NÜR CR Ret	OSC QR 8	OSC CR 6	SAC QR 3	SAC CR 9	NOR QR 5	NOR CR 17	LAU QR 5	LAU CR 18	NÜR QR 3	NÜR CR DSQ	A1R QR 18	A1R CR DNS	ZAN QR 1	ZAN CR 2	HOC QR 8	HOC CR 11	10th	29
2002	Abt Sportsline	Abt-Audi TT-R	HOC QR 4	HOC CR 7	ZOL QR 5	ZOL CR 2	DON QR 12	DON CR 2	SAC QR 8	SAC CR 16†	NOR QR DSQ	NOR CR DNS	LAU QR 3	LAU CR 7	NÜR QR 5	NÜR CR 9	A1R QR 12	A1R CR 9	ZAN QR 2	ZAN CR 7	HOC QR 5	HOC CR 13	7th	15
2003	Abt Sportsline	Abt-Audi TT-R 2003	HOC 20†	ADR DSQ	NÜR 8	LAU 9	NOR 7	DON Ret	NÜR Ret	A1R Ret	ZAN 11	HOC 9											12th	3
2004	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2004	HOC Ret	EST 10	ADR Ret	LAU 9	NOR 14†	SHA^1 Ret	NÜR 13	OSC 9	ZAN Ret	BRN 12	HOC 8										16th	1
2005	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi A4 DTM 2004	HOC 4	LAU 9	SPA 10	BRN 6	OSC 12	NOR 2	NÜR 10	ZAN 10	LAU Ret	IST Ret	HOC 14										9th	16
2006	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM 2005	HOC Ret	LAU Ret	OSC 17	BRH 5	NOR 10	NÜR 10	ZAN Ret	CAT 10	BUG 9	HOC 7											13th	6
2007	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM 2006	HOC Ret	OSC 10	LAU 17†	BRH 8	NOR 10	MUG Ret	ZAN 6	NÜR 15	CAT 11†	HOC 15											16th	4

¹ - Shanghai was a non-championship round.

• † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

External links

• Christian Abt
• Abt Sportsline company

Sporting positions
Preceded by Johnny Cecotto	Super Tourenwagen Cup Champion 1999	Succeeded by Bernd Schneider 2000 New DTM
Preceded by Tim Bergmeister	ADAC GT Masters Champion 2009	Succeeded by Peter Kox Albert von Thurn und Taxis