Christian Danner

Christian Danner (born 4 April 1958 in Munich) is a former race car driver from Germany.

The son of car safety expert Max Danner, Christian started motor-racing in the Renault 5 cup. He advanced to Formula 2 and set the F2 lap record of the current configuration of the old Nürburgring, which also stands as the third fastest lap around the track.

File:March 822 BMW 1982 Christian Danner vl TCE.jpg

Christian Danner's car in 1982

Danner won the inaugural Formula 3000 championship in 1985, and debuted in Formula One on 15 September 1985 for the all-German team Zakspeed. He eventually participated in 47 Grand Prix events. His best result was 4th place at the 1989 United States Grand Prix for Rial, having started 26th and last on the grid. He also managed one 6th place whilst driving for Arrows.

Danner competed in Japanese Formula 3000 in 1990 driving for Leyton House's F3000 team. He scored 4 points and was ranked 14th. In 1991 he drove in one race of the British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton in a BMW M3.

Danner later raced in Champ Cars and also in the International Touring Car Championship for Alfa Romeo. He took part in the now defunct series, Grand Prix Masters.

He is also an F1 commentator for the channel RTL in his native Germany.

Motorsports career results

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	13	Pos.	Pts
1981	March Racing	March 812	BMW	SIL 10	HOC 9	THR 5	NÜR 10	VAL Ret	MUG 16	PAU Ret	PER Ret	SPA Ret	DON 14	MIS Ret	MAN 11		18th	2
1982	March Racing	March 822	BMW	SIL Ret	HOC Ret	THR Ret	NÜR 9	MUG Ret	VAL 13	PAU Ret	SPA 9	HOC Ret	DON 7	MAN 6	PER 5	MIS 4	14th	6
1983	Onyx Racing	March 832	BMW	SIL 3	THR 13	HOC 2	NÜR 3	VAL 10	PAU 5	JAR 9	DON 5	MIS Ret	PER 7	ZOL 4	MUG 10		5th	21
1984	BS Automotive	March 842	BMW	SIL 7	HOC 6	THR 2	VAL 3	MUG 3	PAU 4	HOC Ret	MIS 6	PER Ret	DON 3	BRH 10			5th	23

International Formula 3000 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	Pos.	Points
1985	BS Automotive	March 85B	Cosworth	SIL 4	THR 6	EST 9	VAL 3	PAU 1	SPA 3	DIJ 1	PER 3	ZEL 16	ZAN 1	DON 1	1st	51

Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1985	West Zakspeed Racing	Zakspeed 841	Zakspeed 1500/4 1.5 L4T	BRA	POR	SMR	MON	CAN	DET	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL Ret	EUR Ret	RSA	AUS	NC	0
1986	Osella Squadra Corse	Osella FA1F	Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8T	BRA Ret	ESP Ret	SMR Ret	MON DNQ	BEL Ret	CAN Ret											18th	1
	Barclay Arrows BMW	Arrows A8	BMW M12/13 1.5 L4T							DET Ret	FRA 11	GBR Ret	GER Ret		AUT 6	ITA 8	POR 11	MEX 9	AUS Ret
		Arrows A9												HUN Ret
1987	West Zakspeed Racing	Zakspeed 861	Zakspeed 1500/4 1.5 L4T	BRA 9	SMR 7															NC	0
		Zakspeed 871				BEL Ret	MON EX	DET 8	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	AUT 9	ITA 9	POR Ret	ESP Ret	MEX Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 7
1989	Rial Racing	Rial ARC2	Ford Cosworth DFR (Mader) 3.5 V8	BRA 14	SMR DNQ	MON DNQ	MEX 12	USA 4	CAN 8	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	HUN DNQ	BEL DNQ	ITA DNQ	POR DNQ	ESP	JPN	AUS	21st	3

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
1990	Leyton House Racing	SUZ 13	FUJ Ret	MIN 9	SUZ 15	SUG 17	FUJ Ret	FUJ 10	SUZ 16	FUJ 3	SUZ	15th	4

American Open-Wheel racing results

PPG Indycar Series

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1992	Euromotorsport	SRF	PHX	LBH	INDY	DET 18	POR	MIL	NHA	TOR 16	MCH	CLE 16	ROA 16	VAN 21	MDO 19	NAZ 13	LAG 20		39th	0
1993	Euromotorsport	SRF	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE 25	TOR	MCH	NHA	ROA 11	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG 26		31st	2
1994	Project Indy	SRF	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET 12	POR	CLE Wth	TOR	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	ROA 12	NAZ	LAG		30th	2
1995	Project Indy	MIA 7	SRF	PHX	LBH	NAZ	INDY	MIL	DET 22	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	LAG	25th	6
1997	Payton/Coyne	MIA	SRF	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET 12	POR 27	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN 23	LAG	FON	31st	1

Series Summary

Years	Teams	Starts	Points	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Championships
5	3	18	11	0	0	0	1	0

References

• Profile at grandprix.com

External links

• Christian Danner – Official Website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mike Thackwell (Formula 2)	International Formula 3000 Champion 1985	Succeeded by Ivan Capelli