Dirk Müller (born 18 November 1975 in
Burbach) is a
German race driver, driving for Tafel Racing in the 2008
American Le Mans Series. 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.
After touring cars he joined to Ferrari AF Corse with Toni Vilander and won the FIA GT Championship in GT2 class.In 2008 he is racing in the American Le Mans Series in Ferrari F430 GTC with Dominik Farnbacher in the GT2 class.
24 Hours of Le Mans results
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