Benjamin Leuchter (born 22 November 1987) is a German racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup. Having previously competed in the Champions, German Formula Three Championship and Formula BMW amongst others.
Racing career Leuchter began his career in 2002 in Karting, he continued in karting until 2003. In 2004, he switched to the Formula BMW series, he finished the season nineteenth in the championship standings that year. The following year he only took part in the first eight races of the season, but still finished fifteenth in the Formula BMW standings in 2005. For 2006, he switched to the German Formula Three Championship, driving the last round of the championship that year. For 2008, he took part in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, finishing fourth in the SP1/2 class. In 2009, he switched to the ADAC Procar Series, finishing tenth in the Division II standings. For 2015, he raced in the VLN series, racing in the BMW M235i Racing Cup, he finished the season sixth in the standings that year. Continuing in the series for 2016, again racing in the BMW M235i Racing Cup class, this time finishing tenth in the standings. The same year, he also raced in the inaugural 2016 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship season, taking a couple of podiums and fastest laps on his way to finishing fifth in the championship standings. For 2017, he returned to the VLN series, this time racing in the TCR class. Taking several victories, pole positions and podiums, on his way to winning the class.
In November 2017, it was announced that Leuchter would race in the TCR International Series, driving a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR for WestCoast Racing.
Whilst competing for the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup class of the 2023 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for Max Kruse Racing alongside Nicholas Otto, Leuchter became involved in an incident during the penultimate race, as he caused a collision with Michele di Martino. After a stewards investigation, Leuchter was found to have crashed into di Martino on purpose and was disqualified from this race, in addition to being excluded from the season finale. His teammate Otto would end up winning the Cup2 class on his own two weeks later.
Racing record
Complete TCR International Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points 2017 WestCoast Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR RIM1 RIM2 BHR1 BHR2 SPA1 SPA2 MNZ1 MNZ2 SAL1 SAL2 HUN1 HUN2 OSC1 OSC2 CHA1 CHA2 ZHE1 ZHE2 DUB113 DUB26 26th 13
Complete World Touring Car Cup results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Pts 2019 SLR Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR MAR1 MAR2 MAR3 HUN1 HUN2 HUN3 SVK1 SVK2 SVK3 NED1 NED2 NED3 GER1 GER2 GER3 POR1 POR2 POR3 CHN1 CHN2 CHN3 JPN1 JPN2 JPN3 MAC1 MAC2 MAC3 MAL1 MAL2 MAL3 19th 111
Complete 24 Hours of Nürburgring results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2008 Harald Hennes Swen Landgraf Steffen Ramer Ford Fiesta SP1-SP2 117 79th 4th 2016 racing one GmbH Fabian Danz Dennis Wüsthoff Tim Zimmermann Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR TCR 91 93rd 2nd 2017 mathilda racing Andreas Gülden Constantin Kletzer Dennis Wüsthoff Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR TCR 142 29th 1st 2021 Max Kruse Racing Christian Gebhardt Andreas Gülden Nick Hancke Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR SP3T 54 36th 1st 2022 Max Kruse Racing Peter Hansen Lars Nielsen Audi RS3 LMS TCR (2017) TCR 118 DNF DNF 2023 ADAC Sachsen e.V. Dominik Fugel Fidel Leib Moritz Oestreich Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Cup2 Am 122 DNF DNF 2024 Max Kruse Racing Heiko Hammel Johan Kristoffersson Nicholas Otto Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR Clubsport 24h AT3 44 43rd 1st 2025 Max Kruse Racing Heiko Hammel Johan Kristoffersson Nicholas Otto Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR Clubsport 24h AT3 128 24th 1st
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