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Ellen Lohr - the first and so far only female DTM winner

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Created on December 20, 2016

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Sara Räss

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Daimler AG

Ellen Lohr

Daniel Reinhard

Daimler AG

Ellen Lohr

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Ellen Lohr is the first female DTM winner

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Bernd Schneider, Klaus Ludwig, winner Ellen Lohr, Keke Rosberg (1992)

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - Racing Festival Hockenheimring 1995

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - alongside the late winner Michael Bartels at the 1995 Diepholz airfield race (DTM)

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Ellen Lohr's AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - 200 miles from Nuremberg (DTM) 1995

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - ITC race in Helsinki 1995

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II - Touring Car GP at the Nürburgring 1992

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II - Eifelrennen 1992

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Ellen Lohr AMG Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II - Airfield race in Wunstorf (DTM) 1993

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes 190E - GP of the touring cars at the Nürburgring 1993

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes racing touring car - Bergischer Löwe Zolder 1994

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - test drive in Zolder 1994

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Ellen Lohr with Keke Rosberg in the AMG Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II - 1992 Hockenheim Racing Festival

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes 190 E 2.5-16 Evo II - GP of the touring cars at the Norisring 1993

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Ellen Lohr with an AMG Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.6-16 Evo II - Wunstorf airfield race 1991

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Ellen Lohr with an AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring car - 1996

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Ellen Lohr in the AMG Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II racing touring car (Andora design) - 200 miles from Nuremberg 1991

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Ellen Lohr during the award ceremony (1992)

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Alexander Grau/Kurt Thiim, Ellen Lohr, Jan Magnussen/Jörg van Ommen and Dario Franchitti/Bernd Schneider AMG Mercedes C-Class Racing Touring Car - DTM Driver Team 1995

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Jörg van Ommen, Kurt Thiim, Klaus Ludwig, Ellen Lohr, Bernd Schneider and Roland Asch - the 1994 DTM team (1994)

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Kurt Thiim/Roland Asch, Keke Rosberg/Ellen Lohr, Jaques Laffite/Jörg van Ommen and Klaus Ludwig/Bernd Schneider AMG Mercedes 190 E 2.5-16 Evo II - DTM driver team 1992 1992

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Alexander Grau/Kurt Thiim, Ellen Lohr, Jan Magnussen/Jörg van Ommen and Dario Franchitti/Bernd Schneider in the AMG Mercedes C-Class racing touring cars - DTM driver team 1995

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Klaus Ludwig, Ellen Lohr, Kurt Thiim, Jörg van Ommen, Bernd Schneider and Roland Asch (1993)

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Klaus Ludwig, Kurt Thiim, Ellen Lohr, Roland Asch, Jörg van Ommen and Bernd Schneider (1994)

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Mercedes-Benz DTM / ITC Team 1996 (1996)

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Ellen Lohr with Toni Mathis, the physiotherapist of the Mercedes team (1991)

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AMG Team Principal Hans-Werner Aufrecht with DTM driver Ellen Lohr (1993)

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Klaus Ludwig, Bernd Schneider, Ellen Lohr, Kurt Thiim, Roland Asch and Jörg van Ommen (1994)

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Ellen Lohr, Klaus Ludwig, Roland Asch and Kurt Thiim in a boat on the Dutzendteich at the Norisring (1994)

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Ellen Lohr and Karl Kling at the 1992 Touring Car Grand Prix at the nürburgring (1992)

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Ellen Lohr and Andora with the AMG Mercedes-Benz racing touring car 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II (Andora design) - 200 miles from Nuremberg 1991

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Ellen Lohr celebrates her success in truck racing

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Mercedes-Benz C180 AMG DTM - Ellen Lohr (1994) at the Norisring Race Classics 2014

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Ellen Lohr and Bernd Schneider on the Avus

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Summary

This article contains the following chapters

First drive in a kart
When the fast Ellen overtakes men
Success in Formula 3
The time in the DTM
Still active today

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Ellen Lohr is a well-known name in the motorsport world. After all, she was the first and so far only woman to win a DTM race and even competed against racing legends such as Michael Schumacher and Klaus Ludwig. Ellen discovered her fascination for racing cars at an early age. Her father Alfred owned his own body shop and was an ambitious amateur racing driver himself. As a result, Ellen started working on karts at the age of 12. As soon as she was 14, she was allowed to get behind the wheel. However, her first attempt at driving was not very successful. With a cushion behind her back so that her feet could reach the pedals, she stepped on the gas and landed roughly in the pile of tires and decided - now more than ever!

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