Gregor Foitek
Gregor Foitek ( born March 27, 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss former racing driver.
Career
After Foitek 1986 Master of the Swiss Formula 3 series was, he managed to carve out in the same year in the formula 3000th There, he repeatedly regained good placements, including in 1988 at the race in Vallelunga a win, so it with the 1988 season could finish in seventh place in the overall standings.
Thanks to this solid performance is Foitek could for the following year 1989 secure a place in the driver losing EuroBrun racing team from Italy in Formula 1. However, since he qualified there for a single race, he was substituted off the Grand Prix of Italy by Oscar Larrauri. After two races without the driver's seat, he joined the Grand Prix of Spain at the German team Rial Racing in the place of Christian Danner, but was replaced after only one Grand Prix of the Belgian Bertrand Gachot.
Despite these unsuccessful debut season in which he had not attended a single race, Foitek In 1990, the opportunity to drive the better prepared team Brabham. The contract, however, was limited to the first two races of the year, and Foitek was committed to the team for each race to pay an amount of 200,000 Swiss francs. Foitek qualified for both races, but could finish none. Another commitment of the Swiss made Brabham of additional payments dependent, the Foitek could not afford in the amount demanded.
In order to secure the future Foitek also a cockpit in Formula 1, his father Karl Foitek and the Swiss businessman Peter Monteverdi bought in March 1990, the British team Onyx, which had recently failed due to political and economic problems. For the third race of the season Gregor Foitek then took over Stefan Johansson's Onyx cockpit; His team-mate JJ Lehto was. By the summer of 1990, he reached with the increasingly outdated Onyx ORE1B two stage finishes - the only one of his Formula 1 career - but each remained outside the points. Foiteks best result was seventh place in Monaco. When the team took no positive development and the cars were noticeably worse waiting, Karl Foitek eluded the team in August 1990 his support, and Gregory Foitek announced its contract with Monteverdi. Then put Onyx Monteverdi before the Belgian Grand Prix Formula 1 mode on.
A few days after separating from Monteverdi broke Gregor Foitek the business relationship with his father, who cared for him for many years as a manager and had financially supported. In the following years was no longer able Gregor Foitek to get a driver's seat in Formula 1.
After his Formula 1 career Foitek contested two races in 1992 in the American Champ Car series, which he had to quit both with technical defects. Last Foitek attracted attention in 2002 through his participation at the Ferrari Challenge.