'Dirk Müller' (born
18 November 1975 in
Burbach) is a
German race driver, driving for AF Corse Motorola in the 2007
FIA GT Championship. His former Schnitzer BMW team-mate
Jörg Müller is unrelated, as is French driver
Yvan Muller.
In 1996, Dirk Müller won a
Formula 3 race at the
Nürburgring. In 1998, after a win in the GT1 class of the
24 Hours of Daytona, he scored his first title, the German
Porsche Cup, to be followed by the
ALMS GT title in 2000.
From the 2002 to 2005 season, both Dirk and Jörg were driving
BMW 3series model E46 touring cars for the Schnitzer-operated works squad ''Team Deutschland'' in the FIA
European Touring Car Championship (now
WTCC). Since 2006, the team uses the new
BMW 3series model E90 which is based on the
BMW 320si limited edition model that has a 4-cyl engine rather than the usual 6-cyl.
The 2004
24 Hours Nürburgring was won by both Müllers (and
Hans-Joachim Stuck) with the
BMW M3 GTR V8 that had been raced successfully in the 2001 ALMS. In 2005, the Müllers finished 2nd behind their sister car.
Dirk Müller took pole position and won the GT2 class in the opening round of the
2007 FIA GT Championship season with teammate
Toni Vilander at the
Zhuhai International Circuit, in a
Ferrari 430 GT2 entered by AF Corse, after the winning
Porsche 911 GT3-RSR was disqualified due to a ground clearance problem.
External link
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Dirk Müller
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Profile - by
FIA GT Championship official website