Dieter Quester

Dieter Quester (born 30 May 1939 in Vienna^[1]) is a retired^[2] 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

Dieter Quester, 1973
Born	(1939-05-30) 30 May 1939 (age 84) Vienna, Austria
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Austrian
Active years	1969, 1974
Teams	BMW, Surtees
Entries	2 (1 start)
Championships	0
Career points	0
First entry	1969 German Grand Prix
Last entry	1974 Austrian Grand Prix

Quester at the wheel of the BMW 269 during practice for the 1969 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.

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 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 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.

Dieter Quester, 2008

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	14	Pos.	Pts
1969	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW M11	THR	HOC	NÜR	JAR	TUL Ret	PER	VAL Ret								NC	0
1970	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW M11	THR 7	HOC Ret	BAR 5	ROU DNQ	PER Ret	TUL Ret	IMO Ret								4th	14
		BMW 270									HOC 1
1971	Eifelland Wohnwagenbau	Brabham BT30	Cosworth FVA	HOC Ret	THR													3rd	31
		March 712M	BMW M11			NÜR Ret	JAR 2	PAL Ret	ROU 2	MAN 10	TUL 3	ALB Ret	VAL 2	VAL 2
1972	Matchbox Team Surtees	Surtees TS10	Ford BDA	MAL	THR	HOC	PAU	PAL	HOC	ROU	ÖST Ret	IMO	MAN	PER	SAL	ALB	HOC	NC	0
1974	Team Harper	March 742	BMW	BAR	HOC Ret	PAU DNS												NC	0
		Chevron B27	Ford BDA				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	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Pts
1969	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW M12/1 1.6 L4	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER DNS	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					NC	0
1974	Memphis International Team Surtees	Surtees TS16	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT 9	ITA	CAN	USA	NC	0
Source:^[3]

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	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts	Class
1969	BMW AG	BMW 2002 TI	C	BRH	SIL	SNE Ret	THR Ret	SIL	CRY	MAL	CRO	SIL	OUL	BRH	BRH	NC	0	NC
1973	BMW Motorsport	BMW 3.0 CSL	D	BRH	SIL	THR	THR	SIL	ING	BRH	SIL 17	BRH				59th	1	11th
1978	BMW (GB)	BMW 530i	D	SIL	OUL	THR	BRH	SIL 7†	DON	MAL	BRH Ret	DON	BRH	THR	OUL	39th	2	12th
Source:^[4]

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

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Pos.	Pts
1988	BMW M Team Linder	BMW M3	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									9th	167
		BMW M3 Evo																	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	BMW M Team Zakspeed	BMW M3 Evo	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			15th	127
1990	BMW M Team Zakspeed	BMW M3 Sport Evo	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			20th	20
1991	Linder M Team	BMW M3 Sport Evo	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	NC	0

Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
1994	BMW Team Isert	BMW 318i	AVU	WUN	ZOL	ZAN	ÖST 16	SAL 13	SPA	NÜR	28th	0

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	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1997	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	HOC	SIL	HEL	NÜR	SPA	A1R 3	SUZ	DON	MUG	SEB	LAG	25th	4
2000	RWS Red Bull Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	N-GT	VAL	EST	MNZ	SIL	HUN 4	ZOL	A1R Ret	LAU 1	BRN 2	MAG 2		6th	25
2001	RWS Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	N-GT	MNZ 2	BRN 1	MAG 2	SIL	ZOL	HUN	SPA 1	A1R Ret	NÜR 6	JAR 2		4th	52
		Porsche 911 GT3-R												EST 4
2002	RWS Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT	GT	MAG Ret	SIL 7	BRN 10	JAR	AND	OSC						NC	0
	Dart Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello									PER Ret	DON Ret	EST Ret
	RWS Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-R	N-GT							SPA Ret					29th	3.5

Britcar 24 Hour results

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

References

1. Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
2. Saal, Adam (20 October 2018). "Dieter Quester to Retire from Endurance Racing After Next Month's HSR Classic Daytona". AutoMobilSport.com. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
3. Small, Steve (1994). The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who. Guinness. p. 307. ISBN 0851127029.
4. de Jong, Frank. "British Saloon Car Championship". History of Touring Car Racing 1952-1993. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
5. "All Results of Dieter Quester". racingsportscars.com. Retrieved June 16, 2018.

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