| Alex Müller | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | German | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Emmerich, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current Series: | FIA GT1 World Championship | ||||||||||||||||||
| First Year: | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current Team: | Triple H Team Hegersport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Car Number: | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former Teams: | Mad-Croc Racing | ||||||||||||||||||
| Starts: | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Poles: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fastest Laps: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best Finish: | 26th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year: | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Prev Series: | FIA GT Championship Italian F3 NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Euro Formula 3000 French F3 International F3000 German F3 Formula Renault Europe Formula Renault Germany BMW Formula Junior | ||||||||||||||||||
| Prev Series Years: | 2004, 2007–09 2005 2003 2001 1999 1998, 2002 1997–98, 2000 1996 1996 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Titles: | Formula Renault Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
| Title Years: | 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Müller (born 20 January 1979) is a German racing driver.
Müller stepped up from karting in 1995, and finished third in BMW Formula Junior driving for Abt Sportsline. In 1996 he won Formula Renault Germany. Müller stepped up to Formula Three for 1997, finishing third in the German Formula Three Championship.[1]
Müller stepped up to International Formula 3000 for 1998 driving as a BMW Junior for the Oreca team, but only finished in 20th position. He opted to race in the French Formula Three Championship in 1999, and finished seventh. He then returned to the German championship in 2000, and finished as runner-up to Giorgio Pantano, driving for Team Ghinzani. In 2001, he raced for the team in Euro 3000, and finished third in the standings behind Felipe Massa and Thomas Biagi. Müller returned to International F3000 in 2002, driving the first five rounds for Durango before moving to European Minardi for the next four rounds, but he failed to score any points during his nine races and separated from the team with three rounds remaining.
Müller tested with IndyCar Series team PDM Racing at the beginning of 2003. He competed at two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series short tracks before the end of the season. He finished 26th in the No. 23 Team Racing at Indianapolis Raceway Park and finished 25th in the No. 07 Green Light Racing at Martinsville Speedway.[2]
Having failed to find sponsorship for NASCAR or IndyCar campaigns, Müller returned to Europe in 2004. He was due to race for Taurus Sports at the opening round of the inaugural Le Mans Series season, but the car did not start the race. He did race in the 2004 Spa 24 Hours for JMB Racing with Karl Wendlinger, Bert Longin and Pierre-Yves Corthals. The team finished the race in 16th place.
Müller returned to Formula Three in 2005, racing for his old team Ghinzani in the Italian Formula Three Championship. He finished as runner-up to Luigi Ferrara, nine points behind, having had twenty points taken away for a technical irregularity.
After sitting out the 2006 season, Müller once again raced in the Spa 24 Hours, this time for Scuderia Playteam Sarafree, finishing 18th in a Maserati MC12.
For 2008, Müller raced full-time in the FIA GT Championship for Jetalliance Racing in their second Aston Martin DBR9, alongside owner Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer. Müller set pole position for the second race of the season at Monza, but the car did not finish the race. The car did finish second at Oschersleben behind its sister car driven by Ryan Sharp and Karl Wendlinger.
Müller was signed by the Vitaphone Racing Team for the 2009 season, to race its second Maserati MC12, as teammate to Miguel Ramos. The pair finished eighth in the standings, after scoring three pole positions. They helped Vitaphone to win the teams championship. Müller also finished third in the GT1 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Jetalliance, having set class pole position.
Müller competed in the new FIA GT1 World Championship in 2010, driving a Corvette C6.R for the Mad-Croc Racing banner alongside Xavier Maassen for the first round before being replaced by Nicolas Armindo for the second round. At the fifth round at Spa-Francorchamps, he replaced Alexandros Margaritis at Triple H Team Hegersport and reached for them until the end of the season.
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Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Team Racing | 23 | Chevy | DAY | DAR | MMR | MAR | CLT | DOV | TEX | MEM | MLW | KAN | KEN | GTW | MCH | IRP | NSH | BRI | RCH | NHA | CAL | LVS | SBO | TEX | 88th | 173 | [3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Green Light Racing | 07 | Chevy | MAR | PHO | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Points | |
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| 2010 | Mad-Croc Racing | Corvette | ABU QR 14 | ABU CR 10 | SIL QR | SIL CR | BRN QR | BRN CR | PRI QR | PRI CR | 26th | 24 | |||||||||||||
| Triple H Team Hegersport | Maserati | SPA QR 12 | SPA CR 2 | NÜR QR 13 | NÜR CR 20 | ALG QR 6 | ALG CR 9 | NAV QR 6 | NAV CR Ret | INT QR 10 | INT CR 10 | SAN QR 11 | SAN CR 9 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Young Driver AMR | Aston Martin | ABU QR Ret | ABU CR 6 | ZOL QR 3 | ZOL CR 3 | ALG QR Ret | ALG CR Ret | SAC QR 10 | SAC CR Ret | SIL QR 1 | SIL CR 2 | NAV QR Ret | NAV CR 13 | PRI QR 2 | PRI CR 3 | ORD QR 16 | ORD CR 14 | BEI QR 1 | BEI CR 2 | SAN QR 5 | SAN CR 10 | 4th | 103 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
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| 1998 | RTL Team Oreca | OSC | IMO | CAT | SIL | MON | PAU | A1R | HOC | HUN | SPA | PER | NÜR | 20th | 2 |
| 1999 | Cica Team Oreca | IMO | MON | CAT | MAG | SIL | A1R | HOC | HUN | SPA | NÜR | NC | - | ||
| 2002 | Durango Formula | INT | IMO | CAT | A1R | MON | 20th | 0 | |||||||
| European Minardi F3000 | NÜR | SIL | MAG | HOC | HUN | SPA | MNZ |