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41. Marathon de la Route - Nürburgring 96 hours

Nürburgring Nordschleife, BRD

Date: 17/8/1971 to: 21/8/1971
Track length: 22.835 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 39
Finishers: 16

Pole position: unknown
Fastest lap: unknown

Distance: 96 hours
Average speed: unknown
Weather: unknown
Ruleset: unknown
Car info:  

 

Only 39 starters this year, and none of the favourites got onto the rostrum. The Alpine of Nussbaumer was not taken very seriously at the start, but helped by limited works support it won the race.
Pre-race favourite was for instance the group 2 BMW coupé of Eisenschenk/Stoffel/Wendel, which had already raced at the Spa 24 hours; or the Dino of Ecurie Francorchamps; or the BMW 2002 of Koob/Lagodny/Konz.
The Dino was out within seconds when a half shaft broke, the 2002 BMW retired on Friday with a broken engine mount - while leading. The BMW coupé was the last one to retire (!) when the clutch gave up.
The race itself, which attracted only a few spectators, was dull. Wendel took the lead, Koob and Thérier followed and passed the BMW soon. The pace was set, and the cars rolled on - finishing was more important than pure speed. After day 1, 8 cars had retired already.
Wednesday night, and the BMW coupé was in front again, with the Alpine second and the 2002 third. Fourth was the German Eifelland Porsche, fifth a French Porsche.
Thursday night little had changed. The Alpine was now in front of the coupé, the 2002 was still third, the Porsches had changed position, but later the French Porsche broke its half shaft as well and retired. Behind them, the Marabout Opel was followed by the Hennerci family in the BMW 2002 and then the prototype 1300 cc DAF, the most interesting car of the race really. Ninth were Gellert/Bins/Bialas with a Capri RS, which had first and fourth gear available - and nothing else.
On Friday we lost the Belgian BMW 2002, Saturday morning came the end of the BMW coupé. So the final order was the Alpine in first, the Hennerci family with Kuhl second, the prototype DAF third, a battered Eifelland Porsche fourth, and between fifth and sixth the gap was only 90 seconds.


Touring cars, GTs and prototypes
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 2 Nusbaumer
Alpine A 110 1600S
Jacques Henry, F
Jean-Luc Thérier, F
Maurice Nusbaumer, F
1600 L4 GT 487/461 laps        
2   22 Eifelland Caravaning
BMW 2002 TI
Heinz Hennerici, D
Helmut Kuhl, D
Mercedes Hennerici, D
1990 L4   457/453        
3 1    
Daf 55
Jean-Louis Haxhe, B
Pierre-Yves Bertinchamps, B
Philippe Toussaint, B
1255 L4 Prototype 448/446        
4   25 Eifelland Caravaning
Porsche 911 T
Franz-Josef Rieder, D
Heinz Degen, D
Hans-Werner Brohl, D
1991 B6 GT 443        
5   21 Koepchen BMW Tuning
BMW 1600
Günther Mohrs, D
Karl H. Königshofer, D
Alexander Güttes, D
1600 L4   435        
6   35 MSC Paffrath
Volvo 142
Willibald Graul, D
Axel Kaske, D
Richard Bremmekamp, D
1985 L4   433        
7      
Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider
Hanno Schumacher, D
Horst Klauke, D
Heinz-Hans Heicker, D
  L4   427        
8      
Datsun 2000
Charles Van Stalle ("Chavan"), B
Robert Loyens, B
van Gutschoven, B
ca. 2000     416        
9 1 44 STAR
Daf 55
Wim Luijbrechts, NL
Maurice Gatsonides, NL
Govert de Jong, NL
1148 L4   411/411        
10   12 Team Zakspeed
Ford Capri RS 2600
Heinz Gellert, D
Horst Bins, D
Georg Bialas, D
  V6   410        
11      
Opel Kadett 1900
Binder, D
Meger
Huber
1897 L4   410        
12      
Opel
F. Kerschbaumer, A
Castellik
Fischer
      407        
13      
Fiat 124 Spider
Didi
Lopes
Heinz-Jürgen Dahmen, D
  L4   401        
14 2    
Daf 55
Christian Delferier, B
Jacques Marché, F
Dany Delettre, B
1108 L4   399/398        
15      
NSU Ro 80
X. Ide, B
Detre
Taburiaux
2 x 498 R2   365        
16      
Opel Commodore GS/E
Maurice Timsonet, B
Luc Noël, B
? José Capelle, B
2784? L6   348        
      Dutch National Racing Team
Simca Rallye
Rien Frankenhout, NL
Jim Vermeulen, NL
Loek Vermeulen, NL
1118 L4            
    23 AC Mayen
BMW
Kurt Hens, D
Josef Traben, D
Hans Schell, D
               
    24 Eifelland Caravaning
BMW
Rüdiger Schumacher, D
Hans Schell, D
               
      V-10 Kléber Team
Daf 55
Werner Geller, D
Herbert Schuster, D
Heinz-Jakob Helten, D
1108 L4            
      Elan Racing Team
Daf 55
Günther Olschewski, D
Willi Miebach, D
Raimund Raab, D
1108 L4            
DNF   20  
BMW 2800 CS
Karl-Heinz Eisenschenk, D
Hans-Günther Stoffel, D
Hans Wendel, D
2996 L6           Clutch
DNF   1? Écurie Francorchamps
Ferrari Dino
Hughes de Fierlant, B
John Goossens, B
Yves Deprez, B
2418? V6           Halfshaft
DNF      
BMW 2002 TI
Nicolas Koob, L
John Lagodny, L
Henri Konz, L
1990 L4           Engine mounting
DNF      
Porsche 911 S
Gilbert Courthiade, F
Jean-Paul Bodin, F
Guy Gentis, F
  B6 GT         Halfshaft
DNF   4 Marabout Racing
Opel Commodore GS/E
Vincent Gaye, B
René Tricot, B
Alain Peltier, B
2784? L6           Accident

Remarks: Manufacturers' prize: Daf