Jochen Hahn
| Jochen Hahn | |
|---|---|
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Pedro Ignacio García Marco and Jochen Hahn on the Circuito del Jarama during the 2013 season | |
| Nationality |
 Germany |
| Born |
August 18, 1974 Altensteig |
| FIA European Truck Racing Championship career | |
| Years active | 2000- |
| Teams | Team Hahn Racing |
| Championship titles | |
| 2011, 2012, 2013 | 3 |
| Awards | |
| 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 | Most beloved truck racer |
Jochen Hahn (born 18 April 1974, in Altensteig) is a German truck race driver. Team Hahn Racing participates at the ETRC, driving a Mercedes race truck until 2007, when Mercedes decided to stop participating at the ETRC in 2007. Since 2008, the team has raced a MAN race truck. The 2008 truck was built in just 8 weeks.
Career
Jochen Hahn has competed at the FIA European Truck Racing Championship since 2000, the year he took over the race-truck steering wheel from his father and current team manager Konrad Hahn. Konrad Hahn started his career at the European championship in 1996, achieving three podium positions and a fifth rank on the overall standings by 1999. That same year he survived a major crash unharmed. During the race at the Circuit Zolder, his truck crashed into a wall at 156 km/h (97 mi/h). He then stopped driving at the ETRC and his son Jochen Hahn took over the driver's seat. After his first season in 2000, Jochen Hahn ranked fourth in overall standings. Between 2000 and 2010 he continuously finished the season ranking between sixth and third on the overall standings.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013 as Jochen Hahn and his Team Hahn Racing won the FIA European Truck Racing Championship.[1][2][3]
Before Hahn, only Curt Göransson (1988,1989 and 1990: Class B title) and Heinz-Werner Lenz (1997, 1998 and 1999: Race-Trucks Class title] had won three titles in a row. Jochen Hahn and his team are the first to accomplish such a success since the Super-Race-Truck class was abolished in 2006, leaving a single class at the championship. Owing to this success, the race truck of the third hat-trick European champion in the history of the European Truck Racing Championship will also be labelled with the number 1 during the 2014 season.
Jochen Hahn was voted "most beloved truck racer" for the sixth time in a row by the visitors of the 2013 Truck Grand Prix.
Titles and Successes
2008: Fourth on the overall standings, second at the team championship, most beloved truck racer.
2009: Third on the overall standings, second at the team championship, most beloved truck racer.
2010: Third on the overall standings, most beloved truck racer.
2011: European Champion, most beloved truck racer.
2012: European Champion, most beloved truck racer.
2013: Hat-trick European Champion, most beloved truck racer.
External links
- Official website of his team (multiple languages)
- Joachen Hahn's profile at Truckracing.de
- Chronicle of the Team Hahn Racing
References
- ↑ "Jochen Hahn European Champion 2011 Trucks". www.truckrace.org. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
- ↑ "Jochen Hahn European Truck Racing Champion 2012". www.truckrace.org. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ↑ "Hat-Trick Achieved: Jochen Hahn – European Truck Racing Champion 2013!" (PDF). Castrol Team Hahn Racing.