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Nürburgring Nordschleife, BRD

Date: 2/7/1967
Track length: 22.835 m
Attendance: 30.000
Entries accepted:
Starters: 82
Finishers: unknown

Pole position: Pon in 9.54,7 = 137,8 kmh
Fastest lap: Mitter in 9.57,3 = 137,6 kmh

Distance: 6 hours
Average speed: 130,4 kmh
Weather: Hot
Ruleset: Group 2/63
Car info: 1967 Cars

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The seventh race of the cup brought us back to the place where it all began: the Nürburgring. BMW had dropped back from the fight (but it would return next year with a car more suited to racing) but the fight between Alfa Romeo and Porsche - albeit in different classes - was entertaining as usual. Four Alfa teams were up against seven Porsches, in the 1300 cc class there were two Lancia’s, two very fast Mini Coopers, a works Glas and a few Alfa Romeo Juniors. The 1000 cc class had a large number of Abarths as usual, the new NSU TTS was not quite competitive now.
Fastest of them all was Pon (9.54,7, including the new chicane just before the finish line) in a Porsche, of course, with de Adamich (Alfa) second fastest. All kinds of little spoilers were tried on the Porsches - at the front, or behind the rear wheels.
Race day was hot. Ben Pon took the lead, but soon a fight between him, de Adamich and Mitter took place. In lap 7, both Porsches came in in a stop. Mitter was away quickly, but the car left the road at Kallenhard and retired - a wheel had locked after a jump since the car was lower now because of the fuel load. Pon had the same troubles but kept going, at a reduced speed however. So Stommelen was the only competitive Porsche now, lying second behind de Adamich but in front of Bianchi, Neerpasch and Schultze. After the next series of pit stops in lap 12, the order was Galli, 24 seconds ahead of Rolland, Dau and Schüler.
After 23 laps, the Alfas were still at front with Stommelen fourth. But in lap 27, de Adamich came in with a blocked oil filter; now Bianchi took over, followed by Schultze and Stommelen; de Adamich rejoined in fourth place. Maglioli was eight overall and won the 1300 cc class, the 1000 cc class went to Uberti/Pam with Kauhsen second - until the latter was disqualified for driving over four hours; he had changed cars since his first mount retired.


Division 1, 2 and 3
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1/1 32 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Lucien Bianchi, B
Jean Rolland, F
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 35 laps, 6:07.38,0 7 10.08,8    
2 2/2 34 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Herbert Schultze, D
Gerhard Schüler, D
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 35 laps, 6:07.38,3 5 10.07,2    
3 1/1 24 Siegfried Dau
Porsche 911
Rolf Stommelen, D
Siegfried Dau, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000 35 laps, 6:08.42,9 3 9.58,4    
4 3/3 33 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Andrea de Adamich, I
Giovanni "Nanni" Galli, I
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 34 laps, 6:01.08,6 2 9.56,7 9.58,5  
5 2/2 22 Scuderia Lufthansa
Porsche 911
Hans-Dieter Dechent, D
Jochen Neerpasch, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000 34 laps, 6:04.27,2 6 10.07,8    
6 3/3 27  
Porsche 911
Terry Hunter, GB
Roy Pierpoint, GB
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000 34 laps, 6:05.34,6        
7 4/4 37 VDS Racing team
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Serge Trosch, B
Teddy Pilette, B
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 34 laps, 6:07.04,8        
8 4/1 45 HF Squadra Corse
Lancia Fulvia 1.3 HF
Claudio Maglioli, I
Giancarlo Baghetti, I
1296 V4 Div. 2/1300 33 laps, 6:01.25,4     10.42,6  
9 4/4 21 Scuderia Lufthansa
Porsche 911
Hermann Dorner, D
Robert Huhn, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000 33 laps, 6:03.06,8        
10 5/2 49 HF Squadra Corse
Lancia Fulvia 1.3 HF
Leo Cella, I
Sandro Munari, I
1296 V4 Div. 2/1300 33 laps, 6:04.11,8        
  /5 40 VDS Racing team
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Dieter Gleich, D
Helmut Adams, D
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 33 laps, 6:06.17,5        
  /5 14 IGFA Racing Team
BMW 2000 TI
Hans-Peter Koepchen, D
Winfried von Wrede, D
(Clemens Schickentanz, D)
1990 L4 Div. 3/2000 33 laps        
  /6 12 Stichts Racing Team
Porsche 911
Ben Pon, NL
John Fitzpatrick, GB
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000   1 9.54,7    
  1/1 76  
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Sandro Uberti, I
Marsilio Pasotti ("Pam"), I
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 32 laps, 6:02.23,1        
DSQ      
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Willi Kauhsen, D
Werner Zanders, D
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 32 laps, 6:03.32,9     10.53,1 DSQ: Kauhsen drove for more than 4 hours
  2/2? 80  
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Gianni Lado ("Matich"), I
Ed Swart, NL
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 32 laps, 6:06.42,4 (1) 10.53,1    
  6/3 62  
Glas 1304 TS
Gerhard Bodmer, D
Dieter Schmid, D
1290 L4 Div. 2/1300 32 laps, 6:07.27,2        
  /4 55  
Austin Mini Cooper S
Roger Heavens, GB
Mike Pigneguy, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 32 laps, 6:10.15,3        
  3/3 71  
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Joe Kretschi, CH
Ernst Furtmayr, D
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 31 laps, 6:00.36,4        
  /5 54  
Austin Mini Cooper S
Paul Hughes, GB
Mike Campbell-Cole, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 31 laps, 6:01.21,3        
  /1 2  
Jaguar Mk II 3.8
Lutz Hillesheim, D
Günter Schiemer, D
3781 L6 Div. 3/+2000 31 laps, 6:07.22,9        
  /2 8 Fixo-Flex Sports?
Mercedes 220 SE
Harald Iffert, D
? Josef Reuter, D
2195 L6 Div. 3/+2000 30 laps, 6:01.25,1        
  /1 84  
Fiat Abarth 850 TC
Franco Galli, I
Giampiero Raffa, I
847 L4 Div. 1/850 30 laps, 6:02.53,3     11.22,0  
  /3 7  
Opel Commodore
Hans Zschernitz, D
Roger Schweickert, CH
2490 L6 Div. 3/+2000 30 laps, 6:05.17,2        
  /2 85  
Saab 96
Sigvard Johansson, S
Svensson, S
841 L3 Div. 1/850 30 laps, 6:11.05,1        
  /3 89  
DKW F11 Junior
Hermann Wiese, D
Heinrich Wiese, D
796 L3 Div. 1/850 30 laps, 6:11.10,7        
  /1 104  
Steyr-Puch 650 TR
Istvan Hollós, H
Franz Eichhammer, D
660 B2 Div. 1/700 29 laps, 6:00.22,5     11.59,2  
  /4 69  
NSU 1000 TTS
Hubertus von Rohrer, A
"G. Rius", D
996 L4 Div. 1/1000 29 laps, 6:00.40,2        
  /4 87  
Saab 96 Sport
Ekman, S
Leif Hagelberg, S
841 L3 Div. 1/850 29 laps, 6:05.47,2        
  /5 75  
NSU 1000 TTS
Klaus Gerwitz, D
996 L4 Div. 1/1000 29 laps        
  /5 88  
Fiat Abarth 850 TC
John Aley, GB
Dick van Iperen, NL
847 L4 Div. 1/850 28 laps, 6:01.31,9        
  /2 100  
Steyr-Puch 650 TR
Wilfried Menden, D
Urban Schoppe, D
660 B2 Div. 1/700 28 laps, 6:05.31,9     11.59,2  
    82  
Panhard 24 CT
Pierre Lelong, F
Jacques Bigrat ("Bagrit"), F
848 B2 Div. 1/850          
    48 MSC Langenfeld
Glas 1304 TS
Helmut Eck, D
Dieter Nakaten, D
1290 L4 Div. 2/1300          
    20  
BMW 2000 TI
Nikolaus Killenberg, D
Georg Bialas, D
1990 L4 Div. 3/2000          
      Fixo-Flex Sports
Mercedes S
Alfred Katz ("Fred Cats"), D
Kurt Geiss, D
  L6 Div. 3/+2000       11.10,1  
       
Porsche 911
Peter Peter, A
Gunther Huber, A
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000          
    31? Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Teodoro Zeccoli, I
Massimo Larini, I
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600          
    52  
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior
Unknown
1290 L4 Div. 2/1300          
    59  
BMC Mini Cooper S
Mike Clarke, GB
Colin Mynott, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300   (1) 10.42,2    
       
Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint
Unknown
2584 L6 Div. 3/+2000          
DNF   26  
Porsche 911
Karl von Wendt, D
Gerhard Mitter, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000   4 10.01,6 9.57,3 Accident
DNF   13 IGFA Racing Team
BMW 2000 TI
Dieter Basche, D
1990 L4 Div. 3/2000 9        
DNF      
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Maurizio Zanetti, I
982 L4 Div. 1/1000          
DNF      
Porsche 911
Giorgio Pianta, I
Giampiero Biscaldi, I
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000          
DNF      
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Eric De Keyn, B
Taf Gosselin, B
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600          
DNF      
BMW 2000 TI
Rainer Zweibäumer, D
Feldhof
1990 L4 Div. 3/2000          
DNS     Ben Pon
Porsche 911
Hans Koster ("Piet Hein"), NL
Wim Loos, NL
1991 B6 Div. 3/2000         Engine
DNS      
Ford Mustang
Peter Peters, D
Klaus Fritzinger, D
4728 V8 Div. 3/+2000   (1)