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Dieter Quester

Austrian racing driver (born 1939)

Field	Value
name	Dieter Quester
image	QuesterDieter1973.jpg
birth_name	Dietrich Erwin Quester
caption	Quester in 1973
nationality	AUT Austrian
birth_date
birth_place	Vienna, Austria
years	,
teams	BMW, Surtees
races	2 (1 start)
points	0
championships	0
first_race	1969 German Grand Prix
last_race	1974 Austrian Grand Prix

Dietrich Erwin Quester (born 30 May 1939) is an Austrian former racing driver. Quester participated in 53 24-Hour Races. He competed in a single Formula One race in which he finished ninth.

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 18 August 1974. He out-qualified his three team mates at Surtees and finished ninth 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 third place.

Quester career was still active at age 70, sponsored by Red Bull. On 15 January 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 9–10 September 2006, he won the Britcar 24 Hours of Silverstone in a Duller Motorsport BMW M Roadster#Z4 M Roadster (2006–2008), and on 14 January 2007, he again won the 24 Hours race at the Dubai Autodrome in the Duller Motorsport BMW Z4 (E85). In September 2007 he and Duller won the 24 Hours of Silverstone in the Duller BMW Z4 (E85), by a margin of 30 laps.

Quester took part in his final race at the HSR Classic Daytona in November 2018 at the age of 79.

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
	THR	HOC	NÜR	JAR	TUL
Ret	PER	VAL
Ret
	THR
7	HOC
Ret	BAR
5	ROU
DNQ	PER
Ret	TUL
Ret	IMO
Ret
							HOC
1
	HOC
Ret	THR
		NÜR
Ret	JAR
2	PAL
Ret	ROU
2	MAN
10	TUL
3	ALB
Ret	VAL
2	VAL
2
	MAL	THR	HOC	PAU	PAL	HOC	ROU	ÖST
Ret	IMO	MAN	PER	SAL	ALB	HOC
	BAR	HOC
Ret	PAU
DNS
			SAL
11	HOC
Ret	MUG
Ret	KAR
NC	PER	HOC	VAL

Complete Formula One 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
1969	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER
DNS	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
1974	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT
9	ITA	CAN	USA

Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5
1969	BRH	SIL	SNE
Ret	THR
Ret	SIL	CRY	MAL	CRO	SIL	OUL	BRH	BRH
1973	BRH	SIL	THR	THR	SIL	ING	BRH	SIL
17	BRH
1978	SIL	OUL	THR	BRH	SIL
7†	DON	MAL	BRH
Ret	DON	BRH	THR	OUL

† Events with 2 races staged for the different classes.|}

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class
Pos.	1973	1976	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1985	1986
DEU BMW Motorsport	NLD Toine Hezemans	BMW 3.0 CSL	T
5.0	307	11th	1st
DEU BMW Motorsport GmbH	DEU Albrecht Krebs
BEL Alain Peltier	BMW 3.5 CSL	Gr.5	117	DNF	DNF
GBR BMW Great Britain
GBR Tolemans Racing	GBR Tom Walkinshaw
ZAF Rad Dougall	Osella PA6-BMW	S
2.0	113	DNF	DNF
GBR March Racing	GBR Guy Edwards
GBR Ian Grob	BMW M1	S
+2.0	-	DNQ	DNQ
FRA B.M.W. France	FRA Didier Pironi
FRA Marcel Mignot	BMW M1	IMSA	293	14th	4th
CHE Würth-Lubrifilm Team Sauber	CHE Marc Surer
CAN David Deacon	BMW M1	Gr.5	207	DNF	DNF
DEU BASF Cassetten Team GS Sport	DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck
FRA Jean-Louis Schlesser	Sauber SHS C6-Ford	C	76	DNF	DNF
GBR John Fitzpatrick Racing	GBR John Fitzpatrick
GBR David Hobbs	Porsche 956	C	135	DNF	DNF
CHE Sauber Racing	DNK John Nielsen
CHE Max Welti	Sauber C8-Mercedes	C1	-	DNS	DNS
CHE Kouros Racing Team	FRA Henri Pescarolo
DEU Christian Danner	Sauber C8-Mercedes	C1	86	DNF	DNF

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results

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

Year	Team	14
1988	ZOL
1
10	ZOL
2
13	HOC
1
5	HOC
2
4	NÜR
1
26	NÜR
2
13	BRN
1
6	BRN
2
10	AVU
1
5	AVU
2
17	MFA
1
8	MFA
2
7	NÜR
1
Ret	NÜR
2
6	NOR
1
12	NOR
2
18
		*WUN
1*
10	WUN
2
13	SAL
1
C	SAL
2
C	HUN
1
9	HUN
2
9	HOC
1
Ret	HOC
2
25
1989	ZOL
1
7	ZOL
2
14	HOC
1
12	HOC
2
9	NÜR
1
4	NÜR
2
3	MFA
1
DNQ	*MFA
2*
3	AVU
1
7	AVU
2
Ret	NÜR
1
Ret	NÜR
2
DNS	NOR
1
8	NOR
2
5	HOC
1
10	HOC
2
Ret	DIE
1	DIE
2	NÜR
1	NÜR
2	HOC
1	HOC
2
1990	ZOL
1
Ret	ZOL
2
DNS	HOC
1
Ret	HOC
2
DNS	NÜR
1
Ret	NÜR
2
DNS	AVU
1
3	AVU
2
9	MFA
1
10	MFA
2
12	WUN
1
23	WUN
2
DNS	NÜR
1
8	NÜR
2
Ret	NOR
1
12	NOR
2
Ret	DIE
1
13	DIE
2
9	NÜR
1
15	NÜR
2
11	HOC
1
Ret	HOC
2
DNS
1991	ZOL
1
24	ZOL
2
Ret	HOC
1
15	HOC
2
27	NÜR
1
Ret	NÜR
2
DNS	AVU
1
18	AVU
2
Ret	WUN
1
14	WUN
2
17	NOR
1
15	NOR
2
12	DIE
1
Ret	DIE
2
DNS	NÜR
1
16	NÜR
2
Ret	ALE
1	ALE
2	HOC
1	HOC
2	BRN
1
19	BRN
2
12	DON
1
13	DON
2
Ret

Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3
1994	AVU	WUN	ZOL	ZAN	ÖST
16	SAL
13	SPA	NÜR

Complete FIA GT Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	7
1997	HOC	SIL	HEL	NÜR	SPA	A1R
3	SUZ	DON	MUG	SEB	LAG
2000	VAL	EST	MNZ	SIL	HUN
4	ZOL	A1R
Ret	LAU
1	BRN
2	MAG
2
2001	MNZ
2	BRN
1	MAG
2	SIL	ZOL	HUN	SPA
1	A1R
Ret	NÜR
6	JAR
2
								EST
4
2002	MAG
Ret	SIL
7	BRN
10	JAR	AND	OSC
							PER
Ret	DON
Ret	EST
Ret
						SPA
Ret

Britcar 24 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Car No.	Class	Laps
Pos.	2007
AUT Duller Motorsport	GBR Jamie Campbell-Walter
AUT Johannes Stuck
DEU Dirk Werner	BMW Z4 M Coupé	1	GT3	596	1st	1st

References

Small, Steve. (1994). "The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who". Guinness.
"British Saloon Car Championship".
"All Results of Dieter Quester". racingsportscars.com.

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