Ellen Lohr

A native of Mönchengladbach, Lohr was the first female to be successful in the highly competitive DTM. Like many of her male competitors, she entered motorsport via karting. Between 1979 and 1983, she took part in the Junior World Championships and won the Northwest German National Championships.

After competing in the Formula Ford 1600, in which she won the German Championship in 1987, and her first commitments in the German Touring Car Championship and the German Formula 3 Championship in 1989 and 1990, Ellen Lohr was given a permanent seat in the AMG Mercedes 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II DTM for the 1991 season.

From then on, she shone in the DTM with a series of good placings and a victory at the racing festival in Hockenheim in 1992. She finished the 1994 season in 11th place in the final standings in an AMG-Mercedes C-Class DTM. In 1995, she moved to the AMG team Zakspeed, in 1996 to Team Persson MS. In both seasons of the DTM/ITC with the highly technical Class 1 cars, however, Ellen Lohr was unable to achieve any notable successes.

in 1997, she took her first seat behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz racing truck. After that, she was active in a variety of different racing series and vehicle classes, such as the German Touring Car Challenge DTC, the V8 Star Series and the Porsche Supercup. From 2005 to 2008, she competed in Raid rallies such as the Dakar Rally, and from 2006 onwards in Mercedes-Benz service vehicles.

In 2008, Ellen Lohr took part in the German Rally Championship. After an excursion into GT racing, she returned to truck racing in 2012, initially in a Mercedes-Benz Actros.

After a break of around two years, she was once again gripped by racing fever and competed in EuroNASCAR in the 2019 season. Ellen Lohr remains closely associated with the brand with the star to this day as a Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz Classic.