🇩🇪 Maximilian Buhk

Maximilian Buhk is a retired German professional racing driver, FIA Platinum graded, who raced primarily for Mercedes-AMG in endurance and sprint GT championships. His indexed record spans eight seasons from 2015 to 2022, across 63 starts in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, ADAC GT Masters, DTM, GT World Challenge Europe, IMSA WeatherTech, and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and 24H Series.[1]

Buhk took two wins and nine podiums across his career. His first indexed victory came in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a shared-car endurance championship where he scored three podiums in 14 starts for Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed. In 2021, he won once and took four podiums across 12 ADAC GT Masters rounds, again in a shared-car format. His single-driver spell in DTM that year and the next, racing for Mercedes-AMG Team Mücke Motorsport, yielded one podium from 23 starts in a field mixing amateurs with professionals. His other indexed entries were brief; he made five starts in IMSA WeatherTech and six in GT World Challenge Europe without a podium finish, and contested the Nürburgring 24 Hours twice for one podium.[2]

Buhk finished regularly behind established professionals Luca Stolz and Maro Engel, both FIA Platinum graded drivers with far more extensive records in the same series. He finished ahead of Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional with 86 IndyCar starts and three junior championship titles, once in shared-car racing, and ahead of Liam Lawson, also elite professional and FIA Platinum, once. He retired from racing in October 2022 at the age of 29.