Frank Jelinski

Frank Jelinski (born 23 May 1958 in Bad Münder am Deister) is a German former racing driver.

Career After karting, Jelinski moved to the German Formula Three Championship in 1978 and European Formula Super Vee in 1979 finishing fourth. In 1980, he won the German F3 championship and finished 13th in the European championship. He repeated his German F3 championship in 1981. He moved to Formula Two in 1982 and finished 12th. In 1983, he made four F2 starts and began a transition to sports cars that would last the rest of his career. In 1984, he made six World Sportscar Championship starts and two DTM starts. He captured his first World Sportscar Championship win in 1986 driving for Brun Motorsport and moved to Joest Racing in 1987. He continued with Joest until the 1991 24 Hours of Daytona, which he won with teammates Hurley Haywood, "John Winter", Henri Pescarolo, and Bob Wollek. He moved to DTM full-time that year driving an AZR Audi to tenth in points. He retired from full-time racing in 1992, but returned for the 24 Hours of Le Mans every year until 1995, and has since occasionally come out of retirement for one-off appearances.

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results (key) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pts Bertram Schäfer Racing Maurer MM82 BMW SIL HOC THR NÜR MUG VAL PAU SPA HOC DON MAN PER MIS 12th 7 Bertram Schäfer Racing Maurer MM82 BMW SIL THR HOC NÜR VAL PAU JAR DON MIS PER 20th 1 Maurer Motorsport Maurer MM83 BMW ZOL MUG

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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 Pts 1984 Fischhaber-Racing Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV6 ZOL HOC AVU AVU MFA WUN NÜR NÜR NOR NÜR DIE HOC HOC ZOL 25th 18 Liqui Moly Equipe BMW 635 CSi NÜR 1990 Schmidt Motorsport Technik Audi V8 Quattro ZOL1 ZOL2 HOC1 HOC2 NÜR1 NÜR2 AVU1 AVU2 MFA1 MFA2 WUN1 WUN2 NÜR1 NÜR2 NOR1 NOR2 DIE1 DIE2 NÜR1 NÜR2 HOC1 HOC2 18th 30 1991 Audi Zentrum Reutlingen Audi V8 Quattro Evo ZOL1 ZOL2 HOC1 HOC2 NÜR1 NÜR2 AVU1 AVU2 WUN1 WUN2 NOR1 NOR2 DIE1 DIE2 NÜR1 NÜR2 ALE1 ALE2 HOC1 HOC2 BRN1 BRN2 DON1 DON2 10th 83 1992 Audi Zentrum Reutlingen Audi V8 Quattro Evo ZOL1 ZOL2 NÜR1 NÜR2 WUN1 WUN2 AVU1 AVU2 HOC1 HOC2 NÜR1 NÜR2 NOR1 NOR2 BRN1 BRN2 DIE1 DIE2 ALE1 ALE2 NÜR1 NÜR2 HOC1 HOC2 19th 12