Gregor Foitek

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Gregor Foitek (Template:IPA; born 27 March 1965) is a Swiss former racing driver. He won the 1986 Swiss Formula 3 Championship. Foitek participated in 22 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 26 March 1989. He scored no championship points. He later made two CART starts for Foyt Enterprises in 1992 but was knocked out of both races by mechanical issues.

He helps run Foitek Automobile, a family-run Ferrari and Maserati dealership in Altendorf.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Formula One career

1989: EuroBrun and Rial

Foitek made his debut at the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix, however with turbos now banned from F1, the number of entries had grown to 39. Thirteen cars had to enter pre-qualifying and with EuroBrun having performed poorly in Template:F1, Foitek had to enter the session using the ER188B, which was an update of the 1988 car. Foitek only got to the main qualifying session once, at the first race in Brazil, where he then failed to qualify.<ref name="statsf1"/> After 11 rounds Foitek quit the EuroBrun team.

At the Spanish Grand Prix, Foitek was called up to replace Christian Danner at the Rial team.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, the Rial team were having a bad season and several crew members had left the team. Furthermore, although it was assured of a place in the main qualifying session, the Rial ARC2 was uncompetitive, some five seconds off the next slowest car. In his one race with the team, Foitek's rear wing broke at high speed and he crashed heavily. He immediately quit the team.

1990: Brabham and Onyx

Foitek started the 1990 season with Brabham, filling in for the first two races whilst David Brabham prepared himself to move up to F1.<ref name="grandprix.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He qualified for both races, making his first F1 start in Phoenix, but didn't finish either race.<ref name="statsf1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Once David Brabham moved up to take his F1 seat, Foitek moved across to Onyx<ref name="grandprix.com"/> (now part-run by his father Karl)<ref name="f1rejects"/> to replace Stefan Johansson, who had left the team having been unhappy at the way the team was run. Foitek qualified for his first four races with Onyx<ref name="statsf1"/> and was classified 7th at Monaco<ref name="statsf1"/> (although he was running 6th late on but retired after a collision with Eric Bernard when being overtaken).<ref name="f1rejects"/> The lack of resources began to tell for Onyx as the season wore on, with Foitek only qualifying once in the following four races<ref name="statsf1"/> - as did his teammate, JJ Lehto, at Hockenheim where they shared the back row of the grid - before Onyx folded after the Hungarian Grand Prix.<ref name="f1rejects">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1986	Horag Racing	Lola T86/50	Cosworth	SIL	VAL	PAU	SPA	IMO	MUG	PER	ÖST	BIR	BUG	JAR Template:Small	NC	0
1987	Genoa Racing	March 87B	Cosworth	SIL Template:Small	VAL Template:Small	SPA Template:Small	PAU Template:Small	DON Template:Small	PER Template:Small	BRH Template:Small	BIR Template:Small				NC	0
	GA Motorsport	Lola T87/50										IMO Template:Small	BUG Template:Small	JAR 14†
1988	GA Motorsport	Lola T88/50	Cosworth	JER Template:Small	VAL Template:Small	PAU Template:Small	SIL Template:Small	MNZ Template:Small	PER Template:Small	BRH Template:Small	BIR	BUG Template:Small	ZOL Template:Small	DIJ Template:Small	7th	15

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1989	EuroBrun Racing	EuroBrun ER188B	Judd V8	BRA Template:Small	SMR Template:Small	MON Template:Small	MEX Template:Small	USA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small			BEL Template:Small	ITA	POR				NC	0
		EuroBrun ER189										GER Template:Small	HUN Template:Small
	Rial Racing	Rial ARC2	Cosworth V8														ESP Template:Small	JPN	AUS
1990	Motor Racing Developments	Brabham BT58	Judd V8	USA Template:Small	BRA Template:Small															NC	0
	Moneytron Onyx	Onyx ORE-1	Cosworth V8			SMR Template:Small	MON Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	MEX Template:Small	FRA Template:Small
	Monteverdi Onyx Formula One										GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	HUN Template:Small	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS

† Driver did not finish the race, but was still classified as they completed 90% of the race distance.

Complete CART results

Year	Team	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points	Ref
1992	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	14	SRF Template:Small	PNX	LBH Template:Small	INDY	DET	POR	MIL	NHM	TOR	MIS	CLE	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LS	47th	0	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Foitek Automobile
• Grandprix.com profile
• Template:Racing-Reference driver
• Template:DriverDB driver