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Wolfgang Knobloch

 

Born 1954 in Oldenburg / Germany

 

 

Main competences:

 



Chassis setup, in particular calculating spring settings and requiered damper graphs. Education and training of drivers and engineers. 

 

 

CV:

 



1978 bis 1982

Study Mechanical Engineering

 

1977 bis 1994

Activ driver in Racing, Rallying, Slaloms, Tracktests

 

1999

Senior project manager and race engineer to develop a Ford FOCUS race car for the German "Deutsche Tourenwagen challenge".

Operating two cars in this race series.

Drivers: Michael Funke, Alex Schula



 

2000 bis 2001

DTM-Mercedes, Technical Director team Persson Motorsport GmbH in Germany.

Drivers: Peter Dumbreck and Christijan Albers

 

2002 bis 2004

DTM-Mercedes, race engineer for one of two cars Team Rosberg Motorsport GmbH.

Drivers: Christijan Albers, Patrick Huismann, Gary Paffett and Bernd Mayländer

 

2005

DTM-Audi, race engineer for one car  Team Joest Racing GmbH.

Driver: Christian Abt

 

2006

DTM-Audi, race engineer for one car  Team Phoenix Racing GmbH.

Driver: Christian Abt

 

November 2000 bis Februar 2001

Consultant Engineer Prodrive/Subaru WRC, finishing a special damper development which had a secret fault, calculating different chassis setups, tests in England and Ireland.

Driver: Andrew Nesbit and others.

 

2002 bis 2008

Brasilian Stock Car / Nextel Cup, consulting engineer  teaching new staff to understand technical updates of the car. Team  Action Power,  Curitiba

Drivers: Caca Bueno, Luciano Burti, Thiago Marques, and others

 

2007

European Le Mans series, race Engineer Team Kruse Motorsport, Pescarolo LMP2 with Judd V8, one race, one test, then office to office co-operation.

 

2008

European Le Mans series, race engineer for an Aston Martin DB9R FIA GT1 Team Strakka Racing. Some races European Le Mans Series, 24h of Le Mans, many tests. 

Betreute Fahrer: Peter Hardman, Nick Leventis, Darren Turner und andere.

 

2002 bis 2012

Subjective and objektive evaluation of road cars for autoindustry, also chassis setup and benchmark in Hainan/China and a driving dynamic event with Indian engineers in Pune/India. Layout of chassis setup and calculating damping for road cars and utility cars.

 

Betreuung von Diplomanden im Bereich Fahrwerktechnik.

 

Doing guest lectures at high schools in Moskau, Hamburg and Osnabrueck.

 

Calculating and evaluating chassis setups for many other customers out of Autoindustrie, Motorsportindustrie, semiprofessional motorsport and engineering offices.

 

 

Supporting the Hamburg based Hawk Racing Team in their Formular Student project.