Trumpeter AMG Mercedes-Benz Marcel Tiemann racing car.

Marcel Tiemann (born 19 March 1974) is a retired racing driver from Germany. He is best known for being a five-time winner of the 24 Hours Nurburgring race with Opel and Porsche. 

Tiemann started his career in Formula Konig (an open wheel racing series based in Germany and sponsored by German automobile company König comfort and racing seats GmbH. It ran from 1988 to 2004 as a single-seater feeder series. Its most famous champion was seven-time Formula One world champion, Michael Schumacher.) before moving to Formula Renault Germany. In 1994 he won the championship and graduated to Formula 3. In 1996, Tiemann won the Formula 3 Monaco Grand Prix driving for Opel.

Tiemann's greatest successess have come in the 24 Hours Nurburgring. He won his first in 2003 in the E1-XP class with OPC Team Phoenix's Opel Astra V8. He returned with the same team in 2004 and finished in 10th, before switching to the A7 class with Manthey Racing in their Porsche for 2005. He would pilot the car to victory in 2006, the first of 4 back-to-back victories at the race: driving exclusively Manthey Porsche's

In 2010, Tiemann joined the International GT Open driving an Audi R8. However, during the race at Imola (The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, better known as Imola, is a 4.909 km (3.050 mi) motor racing circuit in the town of Imola, in the Emilia-Romagna region of italy, 40 km (25 mi) east of Bologna. It is one of the few major international circuits to run in an anti-clockwise direction. The circuit is named after Ferrari's late founder, Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), and his son, Alfredo "Dino" Ferrari (1932–1956). Before Enzo's death, it was called Autodromo Dino Ferrari. The circuit has an FIA Grade One licence) on May 23, Tiemann collided with another car at the rolling start and was forced into a retaining wall at high speed. He sustained brain trauma, a fractured vertebra and broken ribs in the impact, and was placed in a medically induced coma to assist his recovery. He was moved to Germany, and later regained consciousness and mostly recovered, but has been unable to race due to the resulting neurological damage and other problems from the accident.

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