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Heinz-Harald Frentzen career 1994-2003

Heinz-Harald Frentzen is a German former racing driver, who competed in F1 from 1994 to 2003. Frentzen was runner-up in the F1 World Drivers' Championship in 1997 with Williams and won 3 Grands Prix across 10 seasons. Born in Mönchengladbach, Frentzen began his racing career aged 12 in karting, winning several titles including the junior direct-drive German Kart Championship. He progressed to junior formulae in 1985, winning several races in Formula Ford before finishing runner-up in the 1989 German F3 Championship amidst a title battle with Karl Wendlinger and Michael Schumacher. After three seasons of racing in Japan, Frentzen signed with Sauber in 1994, making his F1 debut at the Brazilian GP. He remained at Sauber—now under Red Bull sponsorship—the following season, achieving his maiden podium at the Italian GP. After scoring several point finishes in his 1996 campaign, Frentzen joined Williams to replace reigning World Champion Damon Hill alongside Jacques Villeneuve. Frentzen achieved his maiden victory at the San Marino GP, taking several podiums as he finished runner-up to Villeneuve after Schumacher's collision with him at the last race of the season saw his disqualification from the standings. Williams suffered their first winless season since 1988 with the FW20, prompting his departure to Jordan in a swap with Ralf Schumacher. Frentzen achieved further wins at the French and Italian GP in 1999, finishing 3rd in the World Drivers' Championship to Mika Häkkinen & Eddie Irvine. After struggling for form in 2000, Frentzen was dropped by Jordan after the 2001 British GP, swapping with Jean Alesi to join Prost. After Prost went bankrupt at the end of the 2001 season, Frentzen spent 2 seasons with Arrows & Sauber before retiring at the conclusion of 2003. Outside of F1, Frentzen competed full-time in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters from 2004 to 2006, as well as competing in the all-star Speedcar Series in both of its seasons. Frentzen entered 2 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1992 & 2008, finishing 4th in class at the latter with Aston Martin. For 2004, Frentzen moved to the German Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters saloon car series to drive for Opel, encouraged by the success achieved in the series by fellow F1 refugee Jean Alesi. His Opel Vectra was not a competitive car & he was regularly outpaced by not only the Audi and Mercedes drivers but also by his Opel teammates, eventually finishing the season 14th in the championship standings. He remained in the DTM with Opel for the 2005 season & finished the year in 8th as best-placed Opel driver, with his best result a 3rd place from pole at Brno in the Czech Republic. After Opel withdrew after the 2005 season, Frentzen joined Audi for 2006. He would finish 3rd at the first race of the season at Hockenheim & again at the 8th race of the season at Barcelona. Frentzen finished the season 7th in the final standings and quit the team stating he had "no support from the team". In April 2008, Frentzen drove the Bahrain race in the Speedcar Series of the 2007/2008 season and later on joined the Speedcar Series for the complete 2008/2009 season. He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Aston Martin Racing driving one of the 2 factory Aston Martin DBR9s with Karl Wendlinger & Andrea Piccini in the GT1 class. His team finished 4th in class and 16th overall. Also in 2008, Frentzen built the HHF Hybrid Concept Car which he entered in the 24 Hours Nürburgring with his own team. The chassis was a bought Gumpert Apollo road car with a 3.3 litre V8 bi-turbo with 520 hp and an electric motor with approximately 136 hp. Frentzen finished the race but was not classified due to two conventional gearbox failures. In 2011, Frentzen won a special one-off "ROC Legends" race against Hans-Joachim Stuck, Marc Duez & Stig Blomqvist as part of the 2011 Race of Champions. In 2012, Frentzen competed in the ADAC GT Masters season with a Callaway Competition Corvette Z06, and returned to the series in 2014 with a HTP Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. Frentzen has been described as a loyal driver. The monthly magazine F1 Racing observed that the key issue for Frentzen was finding the appropriate settings for his car which was done by himself. In his autobiography An Independent Man, Eddie Jordan said that Frentzen did a "great job" at driving the Jordan 199. After leaving Sauber at the end of 2003, BBC Sport described Frentzen as a driver who "never quite made the most of a brilliant natural talent". Sauber team principal Peter Sauber said in 2005 that Frentzen was the most important driver for his team but admitted that the driver needed to work in a specific atmosphere and referred to his time at Williams where he was in conflict with technical director Patrick Head. I n the early 1990s, Frentzen was in a relationship with Corinna Betsch. After their relationship ended, Corinna later married Schumacher. In 1999, Frentzen married Tanja Nigge. Together they have 3 children.