Marcel Tiemann

Despite a motorsport-loving parental home, this Hamburg native did not seem to have developed any particular interest in motorsport at a young age. That changed when he came top of the course at the ADAC racing drivers' school, which secured him a place in Formula Junior for 1992, which he finished in 12th place overall. At the same time, he also competed in Formula König. Winning the in the Pilote Elf racing driver course meant Tiemann joined the German and European Formula Renault, a commitment he concluded in 1994 by winning the German championship.

In the two following years, he took part in the German Formula 3 Championship, finishing fourth in the final classification in 1996. A special highlight was his victory in the all-important support race at the Monaco Grand Prix, which finally convinced him to start a professional career.

Tiemann immediately entered at a high level the following year as a Mercedes-Benz works driver and completed his first season in the FIA GT Championship in the cockpit of a CLK-GTR racing sports car. In the final standings, he finished fifth, equal on points with Alessandro Nannini, after four second places and a race win in Suzuka, Japan.

In 1998, the Hamburg native drove a CLK-GTR for Persson Motorsport, and his best result was a second place alongside Jean-Marc Gounon at the Oschersleben race. The following year, Tiemann was a member of the Mercedes-Benz works team for Le Mans, but its competition cars were withdrawn by the team management after several serious accidents.

After the end of the GT1 sports car class, he spent the 2000 and part of the 2001 season in the new German Touring Car Masters. In his first year, he competed in an AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM racing touring car of the Persson Team and managed to attract positive attention with 53 championship points and tenth place overall. In the second, he came 12th in the drivers' standings in his CLK-DTM, now in action for Manthey-Racing in just three races.

Still in the 2001 season, Tiemann began to realign his career. In addition to the few DTM races, he competed in the short-lived V8 Star Series and finished second overall there. In 2002, he contested the German Porsche Supercup for Manthey-Racing and took part in his first endurance races for the same team.

While he was significantly involved in the development of the DTM Vectra GTS V8 as an Opel works driver in 2003 and 2004, he celebrated his first victory in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. Four more followed from 2006 to 2009, each of which he won in a Porsche from Manthey-Racing.

In the 2010 season, Tiemann wanted to deepen his involvement in international GT racing, but suffered a serious accident at the wheel of a Phoenix Team Audi R8 LMS at a round of the GT Open in Imola, Italy, which he only just survived and which brought his active career to an abrupt end.