Nationality Germany Name Jochen Hahn 2011, 2012, 2013 3 | Teams Team Hahn Racing Years active 2000- Role Truck driver | |
Born August 18, 1974 (age 49)
Altensteig ( 1974-08-18 ) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Most beloved truck racer | ||
Jochen Hahn MAN Truck Drift
Jochen Hahn (born 18 April 1974, in Altensteig) is a German truck race driver. Team Hahn Racing participates at the ETRC, driving a Mercedes race truck until 2007, when Mercedes decided to stop participating at the ETRC in 2007. Since 2008, the team has raced a MAN race truck. The 2008 truck was built in just 8 weeks.
Contents
- Jochen Hahn MAN Truck Drift
- Truck race trophy 2017 jochen hahn onboard at red bull ring
- Career
- Titles and Successes
- References
Truck race trophy 2017 jochen hahn onboard at red bull ring
Career
Jochen Hahn has competed at the FIA European Truck Racing Championship since 2000, the year he took over the race-truck steering wheel from his father and current team manager Konrad Hahn. Konrad Hahn started his career at the European championship in 1996, achieving three podium positions and a fifth rank on the overall standings by 1999. That same year he survived a major crash unharmed. During the race at the Circuit Zolder, his truck crashed into a wall at 156 km/h (97 mi/h). He then stopped driving at the ETRC and his son Jochen Hahn took over the driver's seat. After his first season in 2000, Jochen Hahn ranked fourth in overall standings. Between 2000 and 2010 he continuously finished the season ranking between sixth and third on the overall standings.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013 as Jochen Hahn and his Team Hahn Racing won the FIA European Truck Racing Championship.
Before Hahn, only Curt Göransson (1988,1989 and 1990: Class B title) and Heinz-Werner Lenz (1997, 1998 and 1999: Race-Trucks Class title] had won three titles in a row. Jochen Hahn and his team are the first to accomplish such a success since the Super-Race-Truck class was abolished in 2006, leaving a single class at the championship. Owing to this success, the race truck of the third hat-trick European champion in the history of the European Truck Racing Championship will also be labelled with the number 1 during the 2014 season.
Jochen Hahn was voted "most beloved truck racer" for the sixth time in a row by the visitors of the 2013 Truck Grand Prix.