Tim Schrick

Tim Schrick ( born January 20, 1976 in Wermelskirchen ) is a racing driver, presenter and son of Peter Schrick, founder of the AVL Schrick ( automotive ). His trademark is a tendency to cross driving ( drifting ) and figurative language in describing his impressions on the track.

Racing career

Tim Schrick took 13 years for the first time the Nordschleife and with 14 years in the ADAC Kart Junior Team. After working in various racing series he founded in 2009 the team Schrick with the aim of building a car for the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring and to go there at the start. This company has been accompanied by a television crew and aired as a series on DMAX. (Team Schrick - Decision on Nürburgring, Team Schrick Reloaded, Team Schrick 2010 - Now More Than Ever )

In June 2010, shortly after the 24-hour race, Schrick got out of the which he founded Team Schrick and solved it on it. The reason he states that his goal is reached and the mission was thus terminated. The Aston Martin V8 Vantage is the new Team 3D Racing Flowtec and should continue to be used after optimization in endurance racing.

Racetrack

He was runner-up in the 1997 Citroen Saxo Cup and won the 1998 this championship. He was the overall winner in the VW New Beetle Cup 2001. From 1999 to 2002 he drove only two years in the Citroen Xsara and then in the Ford Focus ST 170 in the German Touring Car Challenge.

Long-distance race

Schrick launched several times in the 24 -hour race at the Nürburgring. 2003 Carlsson team with him, Frank Schmickler and Akira Iida was the Mercedes- Benz SLK due to a switching error that led to the over-revving of the engine and finally to a valve damage, prematurely. A year later, he reached the 44th place overall with a VW Golf GTI. Schrick began in 2005 in a total of three Audi A3 of the team of Jörg van Ommen. After an accident with rollover at the section dovetail in the evening he retired from. 2006, there was due to technical problems in the task Wiesmann GT - R. After the 25th starting position in training the team of Jörg van Ommen with Schrick, Markus Lungstrass and Thomas Mutsch had problems in the race with the power transmission and sudden loss of power. The following year he drove in the Nissan 350Z of the RJN Motorsport team with Kurt Thiim, Nicole Lüttecke and Holger Eckhardt in the 24- hour race. The team was still considered after failure due to overheated engine just before the race and reached the 29th position.

Two years later, in 2009 Tim Schrick started with his own team. As a vehicle Aston Martin V8 Vantage was used, which was built specifically for the race. Tim Schrick started as number 66 along with the drivers Jörg van Ommen, Jan- Erik Slooten and Ruben Zeltner. The car caught fire in the first round, thus forcing the team to early task. A new attempt at the 24 -hour race of the VLN failed because of the defective transmission. 2010, the team took another attempt at the 24 -hour race on the Nordschleife. At the wheel, Tim Schrick, Ralf Goral, Patrick Bernhard and Wolfgang Weber took turns. After a problem with the clutch and dual change the power steering pump the team reached an unrated 146th place overall after 75 laps.

2011 saw the launch Schrick on a VW Scirocco Team Four engine with the number 205 on the control itself Smudo, Thomas Löwis of Monar and Charlotte Wilking alternated. After four hours of riding, the team had to withdraw due to a broken turbocharger and problems with the electronics. A year later he went with the same fellow drivers and car at the Nürburgring with race number 189 at the start. After a promising start of the race and the lead in the class " alternative fuels " presented the team's race car in the early hours of the morning with a cracked valve cover off after increased pressure had built up in the crankcase of the engine. In order to diagnose the fault, the team decided to re-start.

TV

Since 2000 he drove for the DSF broadcasts (DSF: Deutsches Sport Fernsehen, today: Sport 1 ) Motorvision and TuningTV repeatedly the track tests with a wide variety of vehicles. By late 2008, he hosted along with Sabine Schmitz and Carsten van Ryssen the shipment dmotor on the television DMAX.

Since October 2010, Schrick moderated together with Sabine Schmitz Car Magazine Turbo Sport 1.