Frank Jelinski (born 23 May 1958 in Bad Münder am Deister) is a German former racing driver.

Career

After karting, Jelinski moved to the German Formula Three Championship in 1978 and European Formula Super Vee in 1979 finishing 4th. In 1980 he won the German F3 championship and finished 13th in the European championship. He repeated his German F3 championship in 1981. He moved to Formula Two in 1982 and finished 12th. In 1983 he made 4 F2 starts and began a transition to sports cars that would last the rest of his career. In 1984 he made 6 World Sportscar Championship starts and two DTM starts. He captured his first World Sportscar Championship win in 1986 driving for Brun Motorsport and moved to Joest Racing in 1987. He continued with Joest until the 1991 24 Hours of Daytona, which he won with teammates Hurley Haywood, "John Winter", Henri Pescarolo, and Bob Wollek. He moved to DTM full-time that year driving an AZR Audi to 10th in points. He retired from full-time racing in 1992, but returned for the 24 Hours of Le Mans every year until 1995, and has since occasionally come out of retirement for one-off appearances.

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Pts
1982 Bertram Schäfer Racing Maurer MM82 BMW SIL
17 		HOC
8 		THR
9 		NÜR
7 		MUG
11 		VAL
Ret 		PAU
4 		SPA
11 		HOC
5 		DON
Ret 		MAN
Ret 		PER
5 		MIS
10 		12th 7
1983 Bertram Schäfer Racing Maurer MM82 BMW SIL
Ret 		THR
6 		HOC NÜR
8 		VAL PAU JAR DON MIS PER 20th 1
Maurer Motorsport Maurer MM83 BMW ZOL
Ret 		MUG
Source:[1]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1983 Germany Porsche Kremer Racing France Patrick Gaillard
United Kingdom Derek Warwick 		Porsche-Kremer CK5 C 76 DNF DNF
1985 Germany Team Labatt Canada John Graham
United Kingdom Nick Adams 		Gebhardt JC853-Ford Cosworth C2 224 NC NC
1986 Switzerland Brun Motorsport Switzerland Walter Brun
Italy Massimo Sigala 		Porsche 962C C1 75 DNF DNF
1987 Germany Joest Racing United States Hurley Haywood
Sweden Stanley Dickens 		Porsche 962C C1 7 DNF DNF
1988 Germany Blaupunkt Joest Racing Sweden Stanley Dickens
Germany Louis Krages 		Porsche 962C C1 385 3rd 3rd
1989 Germany Joest Racing France Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Germany Louis Krages 		Porsche 962C C1 124 DNF DNF
1990 Germany Joest Porsche Racing Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
United Kingdom Derek Bell 		Porsche 962C C1 350 4th 4th
1991 Austria Konrad Motorsport
Germany Joest Porsche Racing 		Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck
United Kingdom Derek Bell 		Porsche 962C C1 347 7th 7th
1993 Germany Joest Porsche Racing Germany Manuel Reuter
Germany John Winter 		Porsche 962C C2 282 DNF DNF
1994 United States Callaway Sport Inc. United States Boris Said
France Michel Maisonneuve 		Callaway Corvette SuperNatural GT2 142 DSQ DSQ
1995 United States Callaway Sport Inc. Italy Enrico Bertaggia
United States Johnny Unser 		Callaway Corvette LMGT2 273 9th 2nd
Source:[2]

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft 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 Pos. Pts
1984 Fischhaber-Racing Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV6 ZOL
11 		HOC AVU AVU MFA WUN NÜR NÜR NOR NÜR DIE HOC HOC ZOL 25th 18
Liqui Moly Equipe BMW 635 CSi NÜR
11
1990 Schmidt Motorsport Technik Audi V8 Quattro ZOL
1 		ZOL
2 		HOC
1 		HOC
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		AVU
1 		AVU
2 		MFA
1 		MFA
2 		WUN
1 		WUN
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		NOR
1 		NOR
2 		DIE
1 		DIE
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		HOC
1
2 		HOC
2
2 		18th 30
1991 Audi Zentrum Reutlingen Audi V8 Quattro Evo ZOL
1
17 		ZOL
2
10 		HOC
1
12 		HOC
2
6 		NÜR
1
11 		NÜR
2
8 		AVU
1
3 		AVU
2
Ret 		WUN
1
Ret 		WUN
2
Ret 		NOR
1
7 		NOR
2
5 		DIE
1
21 		DIE
2
Ret 		NÜR
1
Ret 		NÜR
2
Ret 		ALE
1
4 		ALE
2
3 		HOC
1
2 		HOC
2
3 		BRN
1
16 		BRN
2
6 		DON
1
6 		DON
2
16 		10th 83
1992 Audi Zentrum Reutlingen Audi V8 Quattro Evo ZOL
1
15 		ZOL
2
Ret 		NÜR
1
3 		NÜR
2
11 		WUN
1
12 		WUN
2
13 		AVU
1
Ret 		AVU
2
DNS 		HOC
1
Ret 		HOC
2
12 		NÜR
1
Ret 		NÜR
2
Ret 		NOR
1 		NOR
2 		BRN
1 		BRN
2 		DIE
1 		DIE
2 		ALE
1 		ALE
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		HOC
1 		HOC
2 		19th 12
Source:[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Frank Jelinski – Biography". Motor Sport. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "All Results of Frank Jelinski". RacingSportCars. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "1984-1985 Deutsche Produktionswagen Meisterschaft". touringcarracing.net. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  4. ^ "1986-1993 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft". touringcarracing.net. Retrieved June 25, 2020.

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Sporting positions Preceded byMichael Korten German Formula Three champion 1980-1981 Succeeded byJohn Nielsen


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