Frank Jelinski

Frank Jelinski (born 23 May 1958 in Bad Münder am Deister) is a German former racing driver.

Career

After karting, Jelinski moved to the German Formula Three Championship in 1978 and European Formula Super Vee in 1979 finishing 4th. In 1980 he won the German F3 championship and finished 13th in the European championship. He repeated his German F3 championship in 1981. He moved to Formula Two in 1982 and finished 12th. In 1983 he made 4 F2 starts and began a transition to sports cars that would last the rest of his career. In 1984 he made 6 World Sportscar Championship starts and two DTM starts. He captured his first World Sportscar Championship win in 1986 driving for Brun Motorsport and moved to Joest Racing in 1987. He continued with Joest until the 1991 24 Hours of Daytona, which he won with teammates Hurley Haywood, "John Winter", Henri Pescarolo, and Bob Wollek. He moved to DTM full-time that year driving an AZR Audi to 10th in points. He retired from full-time racing in 1992, but returned for the 24 Hours of Le Mans every year until 1995, and has since occasionally come out of retirement for one-off appearances.

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Pts
1982	Bertram Schäfer Racing	Maurer MM82	BMW	SIL 17	HOC 8	THR 9	NÜR 7	MUG 11	VAL Ret	PAU 4	SPA 11	HOC 5	DON Ret	MAN Ret	PER 5	MIS 10	12th	7
1983	Bertram Schäfer Racing	Maurer MM82	BMW	SIL Ret	THR 6	HOC	NÜR 8	VAL	PAU	JAR	DON	MIS	PER				20th	1
	Maurer Motorsport	Maurer MM83	BMW											ZOL Ret	MUG
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24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	Porsche Kremer Racing	Patrick Gaillard Derek Warwick	Porsche-Kremer CK5	C	76	DNF	DNF
1985	Team Labatt	John Graham Nick Adams	Gebhardt JC853-Ford Cosworth	C2	224	NC	NC
1986	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Massimo Sigala	Porsche 962C	C1	75	DNF	DNF
1987	Joest Racing	Hurley Haywood Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	C1	7	DNF	DNF
1988	Blaupunkt Joest Racing	Stanley Dickens Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	C1	385	3rd	3rd
1989	Joest Racing	Pierre-Henri Raphanel Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	C1	124	DNF	DNF
1990	Joest Porsche Racing	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	C1	350	4th	4th
1991	Konrad Motorsport Joest Porsche Racing	Hans-Joachim Stuck Derek Bell	Porsche 962C	C1	347	7th	7th
1993	Joest Porsche Racing	Manuel Reuter John Winter	Porsche 962C	C2	282	DNF	DNF
1994	Callaway Sport Inc.	Boris Said Michel Maisonneuve	Callaway Corvette SuperNatural	GT2	142	DSQ	DSQ
1995	Callaway Sport Inc.	Enrico Bertaggia Johnny Unser	Callaway Corvette	LMGT2	273	9th	2nd
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Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Pos.	Pts
1984	Fischhaber-Racing	Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV6	ZOL 11	HOC	AVU	AVU	MFA	WUN	NÜR	NÜR	NOR	NÜR	DIE	HOC	HOC	ZOL											25th	18
	Liqui Moly Equipe	BMW 635 CSi															NÜR 11
1990	Schmidt Motorsport Technik	Audi V8 Quattro	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	AVU 1	AVU 2	MFA 1	MFA 2	WUN 1	WUN 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NOR 1	NOR 2	DIE 1	DIE 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 2			18th	30
1991	Audi Zentrum Reutlingen	Audi V8 Quattro Evo	ZOL 1 17	ZOL 2 10	HOC 1 12	HOC 2 6	NÜR 1 11	NÜR 2 8	AVU 1 3	AVU 2 Ret	WUN 1 Ret	WUN 2 Ret	NOR 1 7	NOR 2 5	DIE 1 21	DIE 2 Ret	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 Ret	ALE 1 4	ALE 2 3	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 3	BRN 1 16	BRN 2 6	DON 1 6	DON 2 16	10th	83
1992	Audi Zentrum Reutlingen	Audi V8 Quattro Evo	ZOL 1 15	ZOL 2 Ret	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 11	WUN 1 12	WUN 2 13	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 DNS	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 12	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 Ret	NOR 1	NOR 2	BRN 1	BRN 2	DIE 1	DIE 2	ALE 1	ALE 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	19th	12
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External links

• Frank Jelinski career summary at DriverDB.com
• Frank Jelinski photos at The Motor-Racing Picture Collection