Fritz Glatz

Friedrich "Fritz" Glatz (July 21, 1943 – July 14, 2002) was an Austrian racing driver from Vienna. He raced under the pseudonyms Pierre Chauvet and Frederico Careca as well as a number of others.^[1]

Glatz began his career in 1980 racing in the German Formula Three Championship. The following year he drove in that series as well as the European Formula Three Championship and made his European Formula Two Championship debut. He competed in 10 Formula Two races in 1982 for Bertram Schäfer Racing but failed to score points, with a best finish of 8th. In 1983 again made 10 Formula Two starts, this time for Emco Sports but only succeeded in finishing twice and scored no points. In 1984 he returned to Emco Sports and finally broke into the points with a 6th place at Donington Park, with his single point good enough for 15th in the championship. Formula Two gave way to International Formula 3000 in 1985 and "Chauvet" only attempted two races with Oreca, failing to finish both races. In 1986 he drove in Formula 3000 nearly full-time for Jordan Racing but had a best finish of just 14th and he failed to qualify once. He also drove in two World Sports-Prototype Championship races for two different teams. Glatz was away from racing in 1987 but in 1988 returned to Formula 3000 at 45 years of age racing full-time for Racetech 3000. However, after 3 failures to qualify in 6 races, he left the team and went to Madgwick International. His best finish on the season was 12th, out of the points. He also made 3 World Sports-Prototype Championship starts. In 1989 he made one start in the inaugural season of British Formula 3000, which was good enough for 13th in points. He made a handful of sports car starts throughout the 1990s, mainly in Interserie.

In 2002 he was driving a 1996-vintage Arrows Footwork FA17 Formula One car in a EuroBOSS race at Autodrom Most when his car bounced over a curb and became airborne.^[2] Glatz died from his injuries.^[1]

Racing record

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	13	Pos.	Pts
1981	Jo Gartner Racing	Toleman TG280	BMW	SIL	HOC	THR	NÜR	VAL	MUG	PAU	PER	SPA	DON	MIS	MAN 16		NC	0
1982	Bertram Schäfer Racing	Maurer MM82	BMW	SIL 13		THR 15	NÜR	MUG Ret	VAL 8	PAU DNPQ	SPA 16	HOC 9	DON 14	MAN	PER Ret	MIS Ret	NC	0
	Ebor Motorsport	Toleman TG280	BMW		HOC 11
1983	Emco Sports	Spirit 201	BMW	SIL Ret	THR Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR	VAL Ret	PAU Ret	JAR Ret	DON 13	MIS Ret	PER	ZOL 12	MUG Ret		NC	0
1984	Emco Sports	Minardi M283	BMW	SIL Ret													15th	1
	Minardi Team				HOC Ret	THR
	Emco Sports	Spirit 201B					VAL Ret	MUG Ret
		March 842							PAU Ret	HOC 7	MIS 9	PER	DON 6	BRH 11

Complete 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.	Pts
1985	Equipe Oreca	March 85B	Cosworth	SIL DNS	THR	EST	VAL	PAU	SPA	DIJ	PER	ZEL	ZAN Ret	DON	NC	0
1986	Eddie Jordan Racing	March 86B	Cosworth	SIL	VAL Ret	PAU DNQ	SPA Ret	IMO Ret	MUG 18	PER	ZEL DNQ	BIR	BUG 14	JAR Ret	NC	0
1988	Racetech 3000	Reynard 88D	Cosworth	JER Ret	VAL DNQ	PAU Ret	SIL 19	MNZ DNQ	PER	BRH DNQ	BIR				NC	0
	Madgwick International	Lola T88/50										BUG Ret	ZOL	DIJ 14

References

1. Fritz Glatz, GrandPrix.com, July 19, 2002, Retrieved 2011-01-31
2. Jenkins, Richard. Pierre Chauvet, Old Racing Cars, Retrieved 2011-01-31