Dieter Quester

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Dieter Quester
Formula One World Championship career
Dieter Quester, 1973
Born	(1939-05-30) 30 May 1939
Nationality	Austrian
Active years	1969, 1974
Teams	BMW, Surtees
Races	2 (1 start)
Championships	0
Career points	0
First race	1969 German Grand Prix
Last race	1974 Austrian Grand Prix

Dieter Quester (b. May 30, 1939 in Vienna^[1]) is an active touring car racing driver from Austria. Dieter has participated in 53 24-Hour Races. He competed in a single Formula One race in which he finished ninth.

Dieter Quester 2008

Starting with motorboats in the 1950s, he became part of the Formula 2 team of BMW which intended to take part in the 1969 German Grand Prix. Teammate Gerhard Mitter was killed at the Nürburgring while practising with the BMW 269, though. As a suspension or steering failure was suspected, the BMW team with Quester and Hubert Hahne withdrew from the race, as did Mitter's teammate at Porsche, Hans Herrmann.

Quester participated in his home 1974 Austrian Grand Prix on August 18, 1974. He out-qualified his three team mates at Surtees and finished 9th ahead of Hans-Joachim Stuck and double World Champion Graham Hill in the race, but scored no championship points.

Quester then focused again on European Touring Car Championship to drive a BMW 3.0 CSL for Schnitzer Motorsport. Quester had already won the 1973 Spa 24 Hours. Later racing in the DTM, he once slid on the roof of his BMW M3 over the start/finish line of the AVUS for a 3rd place.

His career is still active at age 70, sponsored by Red Bull. On January 15, 2006, he won the 24 Hours race at the Dubai Autodrome on a BMW M3 together with Hans-Joachim Stuck, Philipp Peter and Toto Wolff. Stuck and Quester returned in the 24 Hours Nürburgring, but their BMW was destroyed in a crash at night that involved an oil spill and seven cars. During the weekend of September 9–10, 2006, he won the Britcar 24 Hours of Silverstone in a Duller Motorsport BMW MZ4, and on January 14, 2007 he again won the 24 Hours race at the Dubai Autodrome in the Duller Motorsport BMW Z4. In September 2007 he and Duller won the 24 Hours of Silverstone in the Duller BMW Z4, by a margin of 30 laps.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1969	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW Straight-4	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER DNS	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					NC	0
1974	Memphis International Team Surtees	Surtees TS16	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT 9	ITA	CAN	USA	NC	0

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Karl von Wendt	European Touring Car Championship Champion (Div.3) 1968-1969	Succeeded by Toine Hezemans
Preceded by Kevin Bartlett	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1970	Succeeded by Jan Bussell
Preceded by Jean Xhenceval and Pierre Dieudonné	European Touring Car Championship Champion 1977	Succeeded by Umberto Grano
Preceded by Umberto Grano	European Touring Car Championship Champion 1983	Succeeded by Tom Walkinshaw

v t e Macau Grand Prix (GP and F3) winners

Four-time	John MacDonald

Two-time	Jan Bussell Arsenio Laurel Geoff Lees Edoardo Mortara Riccardo Patrese Vern Schuppan

One-time	Ayari Bartlett Bertaggia Bianchi Brabham Choun Conway Coulthard Couto de Carvalho di Grassi Donnely Dumbreck Earl Félix da Costa Firman Gommendy Gugelmin Hardwick Heath Jarvis Juncadella Kunimoto Lapierre Lynn Maassen Manning Maw Moreno Müller John Nielsen Pateman Poon Prémat Quester Redfern Ritchie Rydell Sato M. Schumacher R. Schumacher Senna Steane Wallace

v t e European Touring Car Champions

1963: Peter Nöcker 1964: Warwick Banks 1965: Jacky Ickx & John Whitmore & Ed Swart 1966: Hubert Hahne & Andrea de Adamich & Giancarlo Baghetti 1967: Karl von Wendt & Andrea de Adamich & Willi Kauhsen 1968: Dieter Quester & John Rhodes & John Handley 1969: Dieter Quester & Spartaco Dini & Marsilio Pasotti 1970: Toine Hezemans 1971: Dieter Glemser 1972: Jochen Mass 1973: Toine Hezemans 1974: Hans Heyer 1975: Siegfried Müller Sr. & Alain Peltier 1976: Jean Xhenceval & Pierre Dieudonné 1977: Dieter Quester 1978: Umberto Grano 1979: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1980: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1981: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1982: Umberto Grano 1983: Dieter Quester 1984: Tom Walkinshaw 1985: Gianfranco Brancatelli & Thomas Lindström 1986: Roberto Ravaglia 1987: Winfried Vogt 1988: Roberto Ravaglia

2000: Fabrizio Giovanardi 2001: Fabrizio Giovanardi & Peter Kox 2002: Fabrizio Giovanardi 2003: Gabriele Tarquini 2004: Andy Priaulx

References

↑ Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29.

Persondata
Name	Quester, Dieter
Alternative names
Short description	Austrian racing driver
Date of birth	May 30, 1939
Place of birth
Date of death
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