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Kurt Ahrens Jr.

1940 - Today

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Kurt Karl-Heinrich Ahrens, also known as Kurt Ahrens Jr., (born 19 April 1940 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a former sports car racing and touring car racing driver who occasionally appeared in German Grand Prix races, mostly in Formula 2 cars. His father, Kurt Ahrens Sr., was a German speedway champion who competed against his son for five years. Kurt Ahrens Jr. started in 1958 with a Cooper-Norton Formula 3 and won the German Formula Junior title in 1961 and 1963, when his father retired. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Ahrens Jr. is the 279th most popular racing driver (up from 372nd in 2019), the 4,124th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,608th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Kurt Ahrens Jr. ranks 279 out of 1,080Before him are Nelson Piquet Jr., Michel Leclère, Kurt Adolff, Karl Wendlinger, Luca Badoer, and Peter Gethin. After him are François Picard, Paco Godia, John Taylor, Bill Ivy, Aguri Suzuki, and Paul England.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Kurt Ahrens Jr. ranks 306Before him are Jurandir de Freitas, Giacomo Bulgarelli, Frankie Avalon, Peter Gethin, Valie Export, and Chuck Close. After him are Francesco Guccini, Conny Plank, Reinhard Bonnke, John Warnock, Grigory Kriss, and Anzor Kavazashvili.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Ahrens Jr. ranks 4,126 out of 7,253Before him are Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow (1638), Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena (1638), Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1574), Conrad Moench (1744), and Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908). After him are Christian Petzold (1960), Hannelore Elsner (1942), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Theo Adam (1926), and Richard Goldschmidt (1878).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Germany

Among racing drivers born in Germany, Kurt Ahrens Jr. ranks 25Before him are Hans Heyer (1943), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Rudi Fischer (1912), Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Nelson Piquet Jr. (1985), and Kurt Adolff (1921). After him are Paul Pietsch (1911), Adrian Sutil (1983), Edgar Barth (1917), Klaus Ludwig (1949), Michael May (1934), and Hubert Hahne (1935).