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Bernd Schneider (born 20 July 1964 in St. Ingbert) is a racing driver from Germany.
Bernd was named after legendary driver Bernd Rosemeyer, winner of the 1936 European Drivers Championship.
Introduced to karting at an early age, he displayed an obvious talent for racing. After several years in the junior kart series,
Schneider won the 1980 German Kart championship. Two years later, he would win the 1982 European Kart championship
with the national team. In 1983, he won the African kart championship.
The next few years, Schneider would race in the various Formula Ford series in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
In 1986, he joined the German Formula Three circuit, winning the title the following year in 1987. This brought him to
the attention of Erich Zakowski, who signed Schneider to drive for his Formula One team Zakspeed in 1988 and 1989.
However, the small German-based squad did little to make an impression on the F1 circuit and Schneider only able to qualify
for nine races out of the 32 he entered with the team (7 out of 16 with the turbo powered car in 1988 and only twice out of
16 attempts did he pre-qualify and actually qualify for a race in 1989).
Schneider also briefly drove for Arrows, before leaving single seaters and racing Porsche sports cars in the early 1990s
for Joest Racing, in the World Sportscar Championship and races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 1992, Schneider moved to the DTM (German Touring Car Championship), driving for AMG-Mercedes. Finishing third his
first season, he has since been a regular Mercedes driver.
In 1995, he won his first DTM championship, piloting an AMG C-Class. In the years of the DTM's absence, Schneider raced the
works Mercedes CLK GTR cars in the FIA GT Championship, winning the title in 1997 after winning six races.
In 1998, now with the CLK-LM variant, although winning five races, he lost the title to teammates Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo
Zonta. He was also a Mercedes works driver in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998 and 1999.
The DTM returned in 2000 with silhouette bodies and V8 engines, and Schneider took the championship crown three of the
first four years (2000, 2001, and 2003) in an AMG CLK-Class; he was runner up in 2002. Still driving for AMG, Schneider
has won a record four championships; in 2005, he was teammates with (among others) former F1 champion Mika Häkkinen,
and in 2006 won his fifth championship title.
It was announced on 21 October 2008 that Schneider will retire from racing at the conclusion of the 2008 season.
After developing the SLS AMG GT3 Schneider has returned from retirement to take part in several endurance races.
In 2013 he raced in and won the 24 Hours of Dubai, the Bathurst 12 Hour, the 24 Hours Nürburgring and the Spa 24 Hours
in that Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
Schneider (now a AMG brand ambassador and instructor of the AMG Driving Academy) received a special trophy of
Mercedes-AMG: The five-time DTM record champion and FIA GT world champion won six endurance races with the SLS AMG GT3
in 2013 and was honoured for his life’s work.
In 2014 he drove again in the SLS AMG, but this saw a strong competition and didn't win any races he attended.
Bernd currently races in the Pro-Am class of the Blancpain Sprint Series in the GT Russian Team Viatti Mercedes.
Below you will find models of most of the cars he drove in.
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Minichamps
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Figure 1:18 |
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(13142)
DTM 1991
Best Result:
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(13105)
DTM 1991 Pole Position race 1 Best Result: |
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(23102)
190E 2.5-16 Evo2 DTM 1992
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(933101)
DTM 1993
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DTM 1993
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Dealer Edition (B66005013)
DTM 1994 Presentation car |
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(430943304)
DTM 1994
Best Result:
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(430953314)
DTM 1995
Best Result:
Overall: DTM Champion! |
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(430953514)
ITC 1995
Best Result:
Overall: ITC Champion! |
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(Conversion, used the 430953514)
Testversie |
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(430963601)
ITC 1996
Best Result:
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(430003701)
Best Result:
Overall: DTM Champion! |
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(Conversion, used the 400013105)
CLK Coupe Promotion Hakkinen/Schneider Brünn 2001 |
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(400014897) [LE: 1 of 1776 pcs.]
Hockenheimring Bernd swapping cars |
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(400013101)
Best Result:
Overall: DTM Champion! |
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(400023290)
CLK Coupe
Test Car Schneider/Alesi |
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(Conversion, used the 400023290)
CLK Coupe
Test Car "Vodafone" |
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(Conversion, used the 400023290)
CLK Coupe
One race with this livery: Best Result: |
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(400023201)
CLK Coupe
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(400033200)
CLK Coupe
Race Taxi |
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(400033303)
CLK Coupe
Best Result:
Overall: DTM Champion |
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C-Class
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(400053507)
C-Class
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(400063602)
C-Class
Best Result:
Overall: DTM Champion! |
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(400073791)
C-Class
Test Car |
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(400073701)
C-Class
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(400083806)
CLK Coupe
Best Result:
Overall: Bernd's last |
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| DTM specials | |
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[Produced by HPI] (8365)
190E 2.5-16V
DTM 1992 |
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(400033303)  Mercedes Benz CLK Coupe DTM 2003 Produced by Autbarn in a Limited Edition This is no. 11 of 25 |
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from the DTM Bernd Schneider worked with Mercedes to develop the SLS AMG
GT3. In 2012 he came back to the circuit to participate with this GT3 machine and over the years he| won a lot of races with it. In 2015 they came with a all new spec. for the AMG GT3 and he still drives these car. |
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Spark
(SG006) [LE: 341 of 750 pcs.]  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 Schneider/Jäger VLN 2010 Best result: 1st (DMV 250-meilen-rennen) Best Overall: Unknown And that year also the first participation for the racing version of the gull-wing race car at the Barbarossapreis 25.09.2010 |
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Ebbro
(44840)  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 Schneider/Kataoka/ Hairuman 12h Merdeka 2011 Best result: 3th |
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Minichamps
(Conversion, used the 410113202)  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 Schneider/Frankenhout/ Bosi/David-Arnold/Wirth 24h Dubai 2011 Best result: 7th Also in A6 Class |
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Minichamps
(410133200)  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG 45 YEARS OF DRIVING PERFORMANCE Mercedes build a limited edition of 5 cars. With Bernd Schneider putting the engine in your car and helping the mechanics tune the engine, it's a very special car to own. |
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Spark
(SG208)  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 Schneider/Christodoulou/ Buurman/Simonsen 24h Nurburgring 2015 Best result: DNF |
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Spark
(SB115)  Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 Schneider/Engel/ Johnston/Morley 24h Spa 2015 Best result: DNF |
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Minichamps
SLS GT3 AMG |
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Spark
(SG231)  Mercedes AMG GT3 Schneider/Metzger/ Christodoulou/Engel 24h Nurburgring 2016 Best result: Winner! |
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Spark
(SB132) [LE: 64 of 300 pcs.  Mercedes AMG GT3 Schneider/Engel/ Buurman 24h Spa 2016 Best result: 20th |
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Minichamps (430898001)
24
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(S3411)
Le Mans 1991 Best result: |
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(MAG FT 30)
FIA GT 1997 Best result: Wurz drove on and |
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(S0161)
CLK-LM Schneider/Ludwig/ Webber
Le Mans 1998 Best result: DNF (Engine) [Pole Position car] |
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