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Steffi Halm will drive the Schwaben-Truck in 2018

Steffi Halm will drive the Schwaben-Truck in 2018

08. March 2018Steffi Halm will succeed Gerd Körber at the Schwabentruck Iveco team.
It’s been rumoured for quite a while now that Steffi would be next to race for Schwabentruck, and the few wrinkles that remained have since been ironed out.
Steffi has not only driven several tryout laps of the oval track on the Iveco Magirus premises in Ulm, but also completed a full-length race simulation at Autodrom Most.
The accomplished Swabian, who has gone from strength to strength in her seven seasons in the FIA European Truck Racing Championship, is apparently quite pleased with her new truck.
Steffi got her first taste of the heavy metal in 2011, driving a tankpool24 Mercedes for MB Motorsport. The next two years she competed in the French Cup, racing an MAN for the Lion team from Lyons, taking the title on both occasions to become the first female winner of the Coupe de France Camions.
In 2013 she additionally participated in six rounds of the ETRC as a race-by-race entrant, and was so successful that the Lion team decided to build its first all-new truck for her to campaign in its first complete ETRC season.
In 2015 Steffi appeared to have orientated herself elsewhere, as far as her motorsporting ambitions went – but there’s one thing about truck racing everyone finds out soon enough: it’s a virus you just can’t get out of your bloodstream.
Sure enough, she was back in the fourth round of that season as a guest driver for Team Reinert Racing. In Most a couple of rounds later, she recorded her first podium finish; at the Hungaroring a week further on, she won her first race.
The following year Steffi, driving a Reinert MAN, teamed up with compatriot Ellen Lohr to compete as the first Frauen-Power outfit in truck racing history – WOW!Womenn On Wheels.
She finished on the podium 14 times, four of those on the very top step. At the end of the season she was fourth in the overall standings, and WOW! third.
The young lady from Ammerbuch, 40 km southwest of Stuttgart, finished this past season fourth again, with another third-place team showing, this time for the Reinert Adventure outfit that paired her with another compatriot and MAN colleague, Sascha Lenz.
Her switch to Schwabentruck and Iveco marks the start of a new chapter in the 33-year-old’s truck racing career. Steffi has demonstrated more than often enough that she can mix it up at the very front of the field. And the Iveco trucks have proved good for wins in the hands of both Jochen Hahn and Gerd Körber. So the expectations, not least those Steffi now has of herself, are sky-high.
But there’s enough time till the start of the season in Misano on the last May weekend in 2018 for Beauty and the Beast to meld into a formidable fighting force.