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Dirk Müller

ディルク・ミューラー　/　でぃるく・みゅーらー

Racing automobile driver from Germany

November 18, 1975 (age 50)　・　Burbach, Province of Westphalia, Germany

Province of Westphalia
racing automobile driver

My Take

I genuinely admire drivers who carve out greatness away from the Formula One glare, and Dirk Müller is exactly that. A Ford factory driver from small-town Burbach, he won the GTE Pro class at Le Mans in 2016 and GTLM in 2017, achievements that demand not just speed but hours of unbroken endurance and craft. Sports car racing is a connoisseur's discipline, and he mastered it. I also like that his name gets endlessly confused with unrelated drivers, yet his record stands on its own. To me he embodies the dependable, no-drama German racer whose results do all the talking.

Overview

Dirk Müller (born 18 November 1975) is a German Ford factory racing driver. He drove for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing in the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. He won the GTE Pro class at Le Mans in 2016 and won the GTLM in 2017. Müller's former Schnitzer BMW team-mate Jörg Müller is unrelated, as is French driver Yvan Muller.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Dirk Müller
Name (Japanese): ディルク・ミューラー
Reading: でぃるく・みゅーらー
Born: November 18, 1975 (age 50)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rabbit
Origin: Burbach, Province of Westphalia, Germany
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: racing automobile driver

2. Background

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4. Personality

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