Klaus Ludwig
| Klaus Ludwig | |
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Klaus Ludwig in 1975
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| Nationality |
 German |
| Born |
5 October 1949 Bonn, West Germany |
| Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters | |
| Years active | 2000 |
| Former teams | HWA 2 |
| Starts | 16 |
| Wins | 2 |
| Podiums | 7 |
| Poles | 2 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 3rd in 2000 |
| FIA GT Championship | |
| Years active | 1997–1998 |
| Former teams |
AMG Mercedes Kremer Racing |
| Starts | 19 |
| Wins | 9 |
| Podiums | 14 |
| Poles | 6 |
| Fastest laps | 5 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1998 |
| International Touring Car Championship | |
| Years active | 1995–1996 |
| Former teams |
Zakspeed Opel Opel Team Rosberg |
| Starts | 33 |
| Wins | 4 |
| Podiums | 8 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 7th in 1996 |
| Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft | |
| Years active | 1985–1995 |
| Former teams |
Opel Team Rosberg AMG-Mercedes Ford-Grab Motorsport ABR Ringhausen Rennsport |
| Starts | 173 |
| Wins | 32 |
| Podiums | 67 |
| Poles | 23 |
| Fastest laps | 16 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1988, 1992 , 1994 |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
| Participating years | 1978–1979, 1982–1986, 1988, 1998 |
| Teams |
AMG-Mercedes Porsche AG Joest Racing Zakspeed Porsche Kremer Racing Weisberg Gelo Team |
| Best finish | 1st (1979, 1984, 1985) |
| Class wins | 3 (1979, 1984, 1985) |
Klaus Ludwig (born 5 October 1949 in Bonn) is a German racing driver.
He also known as König Ludwig ("King Ludwig") for his success in touring cars and in sports car racing.
In the 1970s, Ludwig drove for Ford in the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft, winning in 1979 with a Kremer Racing-Porsche 935. With this car, based on the then 15-year-old Porsche 911 road car design, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall in the wet, an unprecedented win against the faster pure sports car racing prototypes (though it was subsequently matched in 1995 when a McLaren F1 GTR won the race at its first attempt).
In 1984 and 1985, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Joest Racing in their #7 Porsche 956. Considering Le Mans and sportcars too dangerous after the deaths of Manfred Winkelhock and Stefan Bellof, he was recruited for the 1987 World Touring Car Championship for Ford only to finish runner-up by a single point to BMW driver Roberto Ravaglia after a post-season disqualification (after Ludwig claimed the pole, he and fellow West German Klaus Niedzwiedz had finished second behind team mates Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné at the Bathurst 1000 in Australia, but both cars were disqualified due to illegal wheel arch size on their Ford Sierra RS500's). He then moved to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM), and became champion in 1988 in a Ford Sierra RS500. Ludwig also represented IMSA in the 1986 International Race of Champions, finishing 8th.
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