Background
Heinz-Harald Frentzen was born in the West German city of Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia) to a German undertaker and a Spanish mother.
Frentzen driving for Audi (Abt) in the 2006 DTM season.
Frentzen driving for Arrows at the 2002 French Grand Prix.
Frentzen driving for Sauber at the 2003 French Grand Prix.
Frentzen driving for Sauber at the 1995 British Grand Prix.
Frentzen driving for Jordan at the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix, during his most successful season in F1.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen was born in the West German city of Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia) to a German undertaker and a Spanish mother.
After 5 years in Karting, at the age of 18 Frentzen entered the German Formula Ford 2000 series, in 1986. As in his karting career, he was funded and supported by his father (a funeral director) who also acted as both team boss and head mechanic. After two seasons in Formula Ford he was runner-up in the 1987 series, despite not participating in all races.
In 1994 Frentzen was given a Formula One drive by Peter Sauber in a Mercedes powered car, as team mate to Wendlinger.
For the 1997 season, Frentzen replaced Damon Hill at the Williams-Renault team that had won the drivers' championship four times since 1992.
In 1999 Frentzen moved to Jordan in a straight swap with Ralf Schumacher and enjoyed probably the best season of his career in the Mugen-Honda powered car, with two race wins including a memorable French Grand Prix and scoring points in the majority of races. Frentzen finished third in the Driver Championship and was regarded by many as the driver of the year.
2002 saw Frentzen drive for the Arrows team.
For 2004, Frentzen moved to the German Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters saloon car series to drive for Opel, encouraged by the success achieved in the series by fellow F1 refugee Jean Alesi.
In April 2008, Frentzen drove the Bahrain race in the Speedcar Series of the 2007/2008 season and later on joined the Speedcar Series for the complete 2008/2009 season.
He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Aston Martin Racing driving one of the two factory Aston Martin DBR9s with Karl Wendlinger and Andrea Piccini in the GT1 class. His team finished 4th in class and 16th overall.
Also in 2008, Frentzen built the HHF Hybrid Concept Car which he entered in the 24 Hours Nürburgring with his own Team. The chassis was a bought Gumpert Apollo road car with a 3.3 litre V8 bi-turbo with 520 hp and an electric motor with approximately 136 hp. Frentzen finished the race but was not classified due to two conventional gearbox failures.
In 2011, Frentzen won a special one-off 'ROC Legends' race against Hans-Joachim Stuck, Marc Duez and Stig Blomqvist as part of the 2011 Race of Champions.
In the last quarter of 2011, Frentzen joined the inaugural i1 Super Series as an International class driver.