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Christian Danner

Christian Danner (born April 4, 1958 in Munich) is a former race car driver from Germany.

The son of well-known car safety expert Max Danner, Christian started motor-racing in the Renault 5 cup. He advanced to Formula 2 and set the F2 lap record of the current configuration of the old Nürburgring, which was used only in 1983 for international racing.

Danner won the inaugural Formula 3000 championship in 1985, and debuted in Formula One on 15 September 1985 for the all-German team Zakspeed. He eventually participated in 47 Grand Prix events. His best result was 4th at the 1989 United States Grand Prix for Rial. He also managed one 6th place whilst driving for Arrows.

Danner competed in Japanese Formula 3000 in 1990 driving for Leyton House's F3000 team. He scored 4 points and was ranked 14th.

Danner later raced in Champ Cars and also in the International Touring Car Championship for Alfa Romeo. He currently takes part in Grand Prix Masters.

He is also an F1 commentator for the channel RTL in his native Germany.

Complete Formula One results

(F1 driver results legend 2) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Team	WDC	Points
1985	Zakspeed	BRA	POR	SMR	MON	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL Ret	EUR Ret	RSA	AUS	Zakspeed	-	0
1986	Osella	BRA Ret	ESP Ret	SMR Ret	MON DNQ	BEL Ret	CAN Ret	USA Ret	FRA 11	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	AUT 6	ITA 8	POR 11	MEX 9	AUS Ret	Arrows	18th	1
1987	Zakspeed	BRA 9	SMR 7	BEL Ret	MON EX	USA 8	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	AUT 9	ITA 9	POR Ret	ESP Ret	MEX Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 7	Zakspeed	-	0
1989	Rial	BRA 14	SMR DNQ	MON DNQ	MEX 12	USA 4	CAN 8	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	HUN DNQ	BEL DNQ	ITA DNQ	POR DNQ	ESP	JPN	AUS	Rial	21st	3