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Place of Birth: Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
About Siegfried Stohr
- Siegfried Stohr (born October 10, 1952 in Rimini) is a former racing driver from Italy.
- He participated in 13 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on March 15, 1981.
- He scored no championship points. Stohr won the Italian Formula Three Championship in 1978 driving a Chevron and progressed to Formula two for 1979 where he took second places at Vallelunga and Pau, with a Chevron before switching with less success to a March.
- For 1980 he joined Alan Docking Racing, driving a Toleman, and finished fourth in the championship with one win, at Enna.Stohr joined Arrows for the 1981 Formula One season, as teammate to Riccardo Patrese.
- Patrese proved considerably faster than Stohr, who struggled in his first few races.
- Just as Stohr began to improve, he was involved in a start-line accident at the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix; after Patrese had stalled his engine, his mechanic Dave Luckett ran onto the grid to try to restart it, expecting the start to be aborted.
- But it went ahead, and Stohr crashed into the back of Patrese's car, seriously injuring Luckett.
- Stohr's confidence was badly affected by the accident, and his performance throughout the rest of the season deteriorated, along with that of his team, relative to their rivals.
- Stohr retired after the end of the season. A psychology graduate at the University of Padua, Stohr started a racing school and safe driving academy at the Misano circuit in 1982.
- In the 1990s he became a regular columnist for the Italian motorsport weekly Autosprint.
- He also wrote columns about driving safety in several publications.
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