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Martha Grand National

Österreichring, Zeltweg, Austria

Date: 27/7/1975
Track length: 5.911 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 52
Finishers: 22

Pole position: Quester
Fastest lap: Quester in 2.02,30 = 173,99 kmh

Distance: 12 hours
Average speed: 158,63 kmh
Weather: unknown
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1975 Cars

 

The Martha Grand National, the Austrian 12 hours race, unfortunately clashed with the Spa 24 hours - which had a different rule set, by the way. So the race was basically left to Quester, who hired a 2-valve Alpina coupé instead of his normal 4-valve Schnitzer car, and Finotto's Zakspeed Escort. They formed the front row of the grid - the rest of the field were outsiders.
Despite of the fact that the Alpina car could use only its front brakes, it turned out an easy victory for Quester. The Escort had a big off in the Boschkurve, the rest of the field proved no match. An interesting combination were Wurz and Gründsteidl; the rallycross arch rivals were put together in one car, a standard BMW 3.0 CSL. After four hours their BMW had to stop with a blown head gasket. The rallycross boys were not impressed with long distance racing - it was a weekend trip compared to rallycross.


Overall result
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   BMW-Alpina
BMW 3.0 CSL
Dieter Quester, A
? Sepp Manhalter, A
? Urs Zondler, CH
3498 L6 Div. 2 323 laps 1      
2 1    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Ernst Hugentobler, CH
Truninger
? Alex Bressan, CH
1962 L4 Div. 1 300        
3 2   Autovama Firenze
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Vittorio Ciardi, I
Amerigo "Joe" Bigliazzi, I
Duilio Ghislotti, I
1962 L4 Div. 1 296        
4 3   BMW-Alpina
BMW 2002
Siegfried Pust, A
Zottl
1990 L4 Div. 1 292        
5 2    
BMW 3.0 CSL
Alois Müller, A
Harald Neger, A
Gerd Huber, A
3003? L6 Div. 2          
6 4    
BMW 2002
Kurt Fehr, A
Werner Welte, A
Jurg Pfister, CH
1990 L4 Div. 1 277        
7 5    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Adolf Kern, A
Truninger
Hillebrand
1962 L4 Div. 1 284        
8 6    
BMW 2002 TI
Ulrich
M. Beutler
Steck
1990 L4 Div. 1 283        
9 7    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
P. Truninger
Mantovani
Martin Urfer, CH
1962 L4 Div. 1 283        
10 8    
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior
Alex Bressan, CH
Hans Truninger, CH
1290 L4 Div. 1 281        
11 9    
BMW 2002
Peter Benovic, A
Katzian
1990 L4 Div. 1 278        
DNF     Jolly club
Ford Escort RS 1600
Martino Finotto, I
Manfred Mohr, D
Luigi Colzani, I
1975 L4 Div. 1   2     Accident
DNF      
BMW 3.0 CSL
Franz Wurz, A
Herbert Gründsteidl, A
3003? L6 Div. 2         Head gasket
DNF      
Ford Capri
? Ludwig Linder, D
Frank Lampe, D
  V6 Div. 2         Radiator
DNF      
BMW 3.0 CSL
Unknown
Unknown
3003? L6 Div. 2         Head gasket