Hubert Haupt

Hubert Haupt (born 30 April 1969) is a German racing driver, team owner, real estate entrepreneur and investor.

He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft in 1991 and 1992 for Audi, and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters in 2001 for Opel and in 2021 for Mercedes-AMG. In 1999, he achieved the GT2 class victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona. In 2015, 2018 and 2020, he won the 24 Hours of Dubai. In 2020, he founded Haupt Racing Team.

Career 1989–2000 Haupt began his motorsport career in karting, in which he was active until 1989. In 1990, he switched to touring car racing and drove one season for Opel in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft. He then started in 1991 and 1992 as a works driver for the SMS Schmid Motorsport team with the Audi V8 quattro DTM Evo. In 1991, he achieved his greatest DTM success with third place in the second race on the AVUS. In 1993, he drove a Lola T93/20 formula racing car in the Indy Lights Championship. The following year, when he returned to Germany, he took part in the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Porsche Supercup, finishing in ninth place in the Carrera Cup and seventh place in the Supercup in the annual rankings. He also took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999. However, he and his team colleagues had to end the race early due to engine failure.

2010s From 2011, Haupt drove a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and from 2016 in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in various racing championships and events such as the Blancpain Endurance Series, VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring or endurance races at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Dubai. He mostly started for the Black Falcon racing team. In 2020, he finished second in the Silver Cup classification of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup together with Sergey Afanasyev. which celebrated its first successes in its debut year in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (formerly VLN), at the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring and in the GT World Challenge Europe. The following year, the Haupt Racing Team entered the DTM and won the drivers' championship with Maximilian Götz.

In 2021, Haupt also started in the DTM at the races at the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring. This makes Haupt the first driver in history to have started as a driver in every DTM era.

In 2024, Haupt competed in the FIA Motorsport Games GT Cup, alongside Finn Wiebelhaus, where they won the main race.

Personal life Haupt lives and works in Munich. He is the majority shareholder of a German fitness equipment manufacturer and the owner of a real estate holding company. His son Henri Haupt is a tennis player.