Marc Surer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marc Surer
Marc Surer 1982.jpg
Surer at the 1982 Dutch Grand Prix
Born (1951-09-18) 18 September 1951 (age 69)
Arisdorf, Switzerland
Formula One World Championship career
NationalitySwitzerland Swiss
Active years1979–1986
TeamsEnsign, ATS, Theodore, Arrows, Brabham
Entries88 (82 starts)
Championships0
Wins0
Podiums0
Career points17
Fastest laps1
First entry1979 Italian Grand Prix
Last entry1986 Belgian Grand Prix

Marc Surer (born 18 September 1951 in Arisdorf) is a former racing driver from Switzerland currently working as TV commentator and racing school instructor. He participated in 88 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 9 September 1979. He scored a total of 17 championship points.

Racing career[]

Surer started his career in karting in 1972. Due to the racing ban established in Switzerland after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, he moved to Germany in 1974, where he finished second in the local Formula Vee Championship. In 1976, he switched to European Formula 3, where he was noticed by Jochen Neerpasch, who hired him as a member of the BMW Junior Team alongside Eddie Cheever and Manfred Winkelhock. In 1978, he finished second in the Formula 2 Championship, eventually winning the series the following year in a works March-BMW.

Surer's debut in Formula 1 took place at the end of 1979 and was somewhat troubled. He broke his legs in qualifying at the South African Grand Prix in an ATS at Kyalami in 1980 and again racing there in 1981 for Ensign. He recovered to give Ensign their best result with a 4th-place finish at the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix, also setting the fastest lap of the race. He later drove for Theodore before establishing himself at Arrows for a couple of seasons, until BMW's support earned him a seat at Brabham for 1985. Surer returned to Arrows in 1986 but eventually retired from Formula One halfway through the season due to serious accident at the 1986 ADAC Hessen-Rallye in his Ford RS200 severely injured him and killed his co-driver and friend Michel Wyder. BMW retained him as a driver, coach and later director of motorsport activities. In 1994 and 1995, Surer, alongside Johnny Cecotto and Jo Winkelhock, won the German Super Touring Car Championship.

In 1996, Surer began working as a television commentator at all Formula 1 events for Sky Sport (Germany) (formerly known as DF1 and Premiere) next to the lead commentator Jacques Schulz. After Schulz's withdrawal prior to the 2013 season, he has remained commentator alongside .

Formula One all-time ranking[]

In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Surer was ranked the 17th best Formula One driver of all time.[1]

Personal life[]

Surer has been married twice to former Playboy models, first to Playmate Jolanda Egger, and then to Christina Surer between 1997 and 2000. On 3 December 2011 he married his longtime partner Silvia Renée Arias.[2]

Racing record[]

Complete European Formula Two Championship results[]

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

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Pts
1976 Hohmann Racing Chevron B35 BMW HOC THR VAL SAL PAU HOC ROU MUG PER EST NOG HOC
DNQ 		NC 0
1977 Hohmann Auto Technik March 762 BMW SIL
9 		THR
7 		HOC
Ret 		NÜR VAL
7 		PAU MUG
5 		ROU
Ret 		NOG
7 		PER MIS EST 13th 5
March Engineering March 772P DON
4
1978 Polifac BMW Junior Team March 782 BMW THR
2 		HOC
2 		NÜR
4 		PAU
3 		MUG
2 		VAL
9 		ROU
3 		DON
3 		NOG
2 		PER
Ret 		MIS
2 		HOC
2 		2nd 51
1979 Polifac BMW Junior Team March 792 BMW SIL
DNS 		HOC
Ret 		THR
9 		NÜR
1 		VAL
1 		MUG
Ret 		PAU
3 		HOC
5 		ZAN
3 		PER
Ret 		MIS
3 		DON
2 		1st 38
1981 Marcus Hotz Racing March 812 BMW SIL HOC
Ret 		THR
12 		NÜR VAL MUG PAU PER SPA DON MIS MAN NC 0

Complete Formula One World Championship results[]

(key) (races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points
1979 Team Ensign Ensign N179 Cosworth V8 ARG BRA RSA USW ESP BEL MON FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA
DNQ 		CAN
DNQ 		USA
Ret 		NC 0
1980 Team ATS ATS Cosworth V8 ARG
Ret 		BRA
7 		NC 0
ATS D4 RSA
DNS 		USW BEL MON FRA
Ret 		GBR
Ret 		GER
12 		AUT
12 		NED
10 		ITA
Ret 		CAN
DNQ 		USA
8
1981 Ensign Racing Ensign N180B Cosworth V8 USW
Ret 		BRA
4 		ARG
Ret 		SMR
9 		BEL
11 		MON
6 		ESP 16th 4
Theodore Racing Team Theodore FRA
12 		GBR
11 		GER
14 		AUT
Ret 		NED
8 		ITA
DNQ 		CAN
9 		CPL
Ret
1982 Arrows Racing Team Arrows A4 Cosworth V8 RSA BRA USW SMR BEL
7 		MON
9 		DET
8 		CAN
5 		NED
10 		GBR
Ret 		FRA
13 		GER
6 		AUT
Ret 		ITA
Ret 		21st 3
Arrows A5 SUI
15 		CPL
7
1983 Arrows Racing Team Arrows A6 Cosworth V8 BRA
6 		USW
5 		FRA
10 		SMR
6 		MON
Ret 		BEL
11 		DET
11 		CAN
Ret 		GBR
17 		GER
7 		AUT
Ret 		NED
8 		ITA
10 		EUR
Ret 		RSA
8 		15th 4
1984 Barclay Nordica Arrows BMW Arrows A6 Cosworth V8 BRA
7 		RSA
9 		BEL
8 		FRA
Ret 		MON
DNQ 		CAN
Ret 		DET
Ret 		20th 1
Arrows A7 BMW
Str-4 t/c 		SMR
Ret 		DAL
Ret 		GBR
11 		GER
Ret 		AUT
6 		NED
Ret 		ITA
Ret 		EUR
Ret 		POR
Ret
1985 Motor Racing Developments Ltd. Brabham BT54 BMW
Str-4 t/c 		BRA POR SMR MON CAN
15 		DET
8 		FRA
8 		GBR
6 		GER
Ret 		AUT
6 		NED
10 		ITA
4 		BEL
8 		EUR
Ret 		RSA
Ret 		AUS
Ret 		13th 5
1986 Barclay Arrows BMW Arrows A8 BMW
Str-4 t/c 		BRA
Ret 		ESP
Ret 		SMR
9 		MON
9 		BEL
9 		CAN DET FRA GBR GER HUN AUT ITA POR MEX AUS NC 0

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1978 Switzerland Artos Francy Sauber PP AG Switzerland Eugen Straehl
Switzerland Harry Blumer 		Sauber C 5 S
2.0 		257 NC NC
1981 Switzerland Würth-Lubrifilm Team Sauber Canada David Deacon
Austria Dieter Quester 		BMW M1 Gr.5
 207 DNF DNF
1982 West Germany Ford-Werke AG
West Germany Zakspeed 		Germany Klaus Ludwig
West Germany Manfred Winkelhock 		Ford C100 C 67 DNF DNF

Sources[]

References[]

  1. ^ Hanlon, Mike (2016-05-12). "The Top 50 F1 drivers of all time, regardless of what they were driving". New Atlas. Retrieved 2017-12-23.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ http://marcsurer.com/news/2011/verheiratet.html[dead link]
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Bruno Giacomelli 		European Formula Two
Champion
1979 		Succeeded by
Brian Henton
Retrieved from ""