Siegfried Stohr

Siegfried Stohr
Nationality	Template:Country flagicon2 Italian
Years	1981
Team(s)	Arrows
Races	13 (9 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Points	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1981 United States Grand Prix West
First win
Last win
Last race	1981 Italian Grand Prix

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.

After a very promising early career in which Stohr rose to prominence relatively quickly, he joined Arrows for the 1981 Formula One season, as team-mate to Riccardo Patrese. Patrese proved considerably faster than Stohr, who struggled in his first few races. Ironically, just as Stohr began to improve, he was involved in a bizarre startline accident at the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix, in which he ran into the back of Patrese's car, injuring an Arrows mechanic. The starting procedure was utterly chaotic with mechanics on the grid and some cars' engines running and others not, and the Arrows drivers and mechanic can be seen as innocent victims of the officials' shortcomings.

In any case, Stohr's confidence was badly affected, 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 and started a successful racing school.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1981	Arrows Racing Team	Arrows A3	Cosworth V8	USW DNQ	BRA Ret	ARG 9	SMR DNQ	BEL Ret	MON Ret	ESP Ret	FRA DNQ	GBR Ret	GER 12	AUT Ret	NED 7	ITA DNQ	CAN	LVS	-	0

References

• "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995.
• Biography at F1 Rejects