Manuel Reuter

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Manuel Reuter (born 6 December 1961 in Mainz) is a German former race car driver.

He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice:

• in 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans for Sauber-Mercedes
• in 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans for Joest Racing

He also won the Interserie in 1992 in a Kremer K7 and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/ITC in 1996 for Opel in an Opel Calibra V6.

Reuter continued to race in the Super Tourenwagen Cup for Opel.

When Opel retired from the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters after 2005, he also retired. He acted as a commentator for the DTM on German television channel Das Erste from 2007 to 2013.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1988	Camel Brun Motorsport	Walter Lechner Franz Hunkeler	Porsche 962C	C1	91	DNF	DNF
1989	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jochen Mass Stanley Dickens	Sauber C9-Mercedes	C1	389	1st	1st
1990	Richard Lloyd Racing Italya Sport	JJ Lehto James Weaver	Porsche 962C GTi	C1	181	DNF	DNF
1991	Porsche Kremer Racing	Harri Toivonen JJ Lehto	Porsche 962CK6	C2	343	9th	9th
1992	Porsche Kremer Racing	Giovanni Lavaggi John Nielsen	Porsche 962CK6	C3	334	7th	2nd
1993	Joest Porsche Racing	Frank Jelinski "John Winter"	Porsche 962C	C2	282	DNF	DNF
1996	Joest Racing	Davy Jones Alexander Wurz	TWR Porsche WSC-95	LMP1	354	1st	1st

Partial Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/Masters results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
1993	Joest Racing	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	WUN 1	WUN 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NOR 1	NOR 2	DIE 1	DIE 2	SIN 1	SIN 2	AVU 1	AVU 2	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 DNS	NC	0
1994	Opel Team Joist	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	ZOL 1 Ret	ZOL 2 7	HOC 1 8	HOC 2 4	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 Ret	NÜR 1 8	NÜR 2 5	NOR 1 5	NOR 2 Ret	DIE 1 Ret	DIE 2 Ret	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 4	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 Ret	SIN 1 6	SIN 2 3	HOC 1 4	HOC 2 8	8th	89
1995	Opel Team Joist	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	HOC 1 22	HOC 2 Ret	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 13	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 Ret	DIE 1 16	DIE 2 7	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 7	SIN 1 5	SIN 2 Ret	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 4							12th	39
2000	Opel-Team Phoenix	Opel Astra V8 Coupé	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 13	OSC 1 1	OSC 2 1	NOR 1 3	NOR 2 2	SAC 1 13†	SAC 2 11	NÜR 1 5	NÜR 2 5	LAU 1 C	LAU 2 C	OSC 1 3	OSC 2 2	NÜR 1 1	NÜR 2 1	HOC 1 16	HOC 2 Ret			2nd	162
2001	Opel-Team Phoenix	Opel Astra V8 Coupé	HOC QR 12	HOC CR 12	NÜR QR Ret	NÜR CR DNS	OSC QR 13	OSC CR 15	SAC QR 8	SAC CR 14	NOR QR 15	NOR CR 8	LAU QR 13	LAU CR 7	NÜR QR 12	NÜR CR 5	A1R QR 13	A1R CR 4	ZAN QR 9	ZAN CR 13	HOC QR 11	HOC CR 4	9th	35
2002	Opel-Team Phoenix	Opel Astra V8 Coupé 2002	HOC QR 18	HOC CR 17†	ZOL QR 11	ZOL CR 15	DON QR 3	DON CR 14†	SAC QR 18	SAC CR Ret	NOR QR 8	NOR CR 7	LAU QR 11	LAU CR 5	NÜR QR 8	NÜR CR 6	A1R QR 8	A1R CR 7	ZAN QR 5	ZAN CR 4	HOC QR 6	HOC CR Ret	10th	7
2003	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Astra V8 Coupé 2003	HOC 9	ADR Ret	NÜR 9	LAU 12	NOR 13	DON Ret	NÜR 15†	A1R 10	ZAN 4	HOC 19†											10th	5
2004	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2004	HOC 10	EST 16	ADR 13	LAU 8	NOR 8	SHA1	NÜR 12	OSC 3	ZAN 8	BRN 12	HOC Ret										12th	9
2005	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2005	HOC Ret	LAU 16	SPA 16†	BRN Ret	OSC 15	NOR 9	NÜR 20	ZAN Ret	LAU 5	IST 14	HOC 12										17th	4

¹ - Shanghai was a non-championship round.

• † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

Complete International Touring Car Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Points
1995	Opel Team Joist	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	MUG 1 9	MUG 2 Ret	HEL 1 4	HEL 2 7	DON 1 10	DON 2 6	EST 1 16	EST 2 9	MAG 1 4	MAG 2 2																	6th	50
1996	Opel Team Joist	Opel Calibra V6 4x4	HOC 1 1	HOC 2 3	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 1	EST 1 4	EST 2 3	HEL 1 2	HEL 2 2	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 5	DIE 1 10	DIE 2 6	SIL 1 6	SIL 2 6	NÜR 1 4	NÜR 2 16	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 DNS	MUG 1 18	MUG 2 7	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 1	INT 1 4	INT 2 4	SUZ 1 13	SUZ 2 14	1st	218

External links

• Manuel Reuter

Sporting positions
Preceded by Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries Andy Wallace	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1989 with: Jochen Mass Stanley Dickens	Succeeded by John Nielsen Price Cobb Martin Brundle
Preceded by Yannick Dalmas J.J. Lehto Masanori Sekiya	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 with: Davy Jones Alexander Wurz	Succeeded by Michele Alboreto Stefan Johansson Tom Kristensen
Preceded by Bernd Schneider	International Touring Car Champion 1996	Succeeded by None