Lina van de Mars

Lina van de Mars (born 13 September 1979 in Munich, Germany) is a German TV moderator, motor athlete and drummer.

After passing her Abitur in Munich in 2000, Lina van de Mars moved to Berlin to support the band Lemonbabies as a drummer.

In the same year, the Berliner-by-choice was signed by the station DMAX for the show Der Checker, which she hosted until 2011 together with Alexander Wesselsky and from 2011 as the main face with a new cast.

In 2011 and 2012, van de Mars took part in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge as a member of the eBay Motors team.

In 2013, van de Mars, who acquired her racing license in 2008, drove for Mercedes-Benz in a prototype in the "Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles" rally in Morocco.

August 2019, the fast ladies together with Jutta Kleinschmidt contest their first mission at the 24h of GORM in Poland and were 23h and 15min in the lead, until a defect in the gearbox cost them 1st place.

September 2021 Lina participated for the first time together with the Dakar racing team XtremePlus from France in the Baja Italy in T4 and convinced in her debut with a solid 2nd place.

[4][5] In 2018 and 2019, Lina van de Mars is the face of the apprentice campaign of the Central Association of the German Motor Trade (ZDK).