Dieter Quester

Dieter Quester

Dieter Quester, 1973
Born	(1939-05-30) 30 May 1939 Vienna, Austria
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Austrian
Active years	1969, 1974
Teams	BMW, Surtees
Entries	2 (1 start)
Championships	0
Career points	0
First entry	1969 German Grand Prix
Last entry	1974 Austrian Grand Prix

Dieter Quester (born May 30, 1939 in Vienna) is an active touring car racing driver from Austria. Dieter has participated in 53 24-Hour Races. He competed in a single Formula One race in which he finished ninth.

Dieter Quester 2008

Starting with motorboats in the 1950s, he became part of the Formula 2 team of BMW which intended to take part in the 1969 German Grand Prix. Teammate Gerhard Mitter was killed at the Nürburgring while practising with the BMW 269, though. As a suspension or steering failure was suspected, the BMW team with Quester and Hubert Hahne withdrew from the race, as did Mitter's teammate at Porsche, Hans Herrmann.

Quester participated in his home 1974 Austrian Grand Prix on August 18, 1974. He out-qualified his three team mates at Surtees and finished 9th ahead of Hans-Joachim Stuck and double World Champion Graham Hill in the race, but scored no championship points.

Quester then focused again on European Touring Car Championship to drive a BMW 3.0 CSL for Schnitzer Motorsport. Quester had already won the 1973 Spa 24 Hours. Later racing in the DTM, he once slid on the roof of his BMW M3 over the start/finish line of the AVUS for a 3rd place.

His career is still active at age 70, sponsored by Red Bull. On January 15, 2006, he won the 24 Hours race at the Dubai Autodrome on a BMW M3 together with Hans-Joachim Stuck, Philipp Peter and Toto Wolff. Stuck and Quester returned in the 24 Hours Nürburgring, but their BMW was destroyed in a crash at night that involved an oil spill and seven cars. During the weekend of September 9–10, 2006, he won the Britcar 24 Hours of Silverstone in a Duller Motorsport BMW MZ4, and on January 14, 2007 he again won the 24 Hours race at the Dubai Autodrome in the Duller Motorsport BMW Z4. In September 2007 he and Duller won the 24 Hours of Silverstone in the Duller BMW Z4, by a margin of 30 laps.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1969	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW Straight-4	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER DNS	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					NC	0
1974	Memphis International Team Surtees	Surtees TS16	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT 9	ITA	CAN	USA	NC	0

External links

• Biography at F1 Rejects
• http://bmw-motorsport.com/ms/en/fascination/history/bmw_touring/heroes/index.html
• http://www.john-w.de/bmwf2/