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1000 Martha / Österreichring 6 hours

Österreichring, Zeltweg, Austria

Date: 27/6/1976
Track length: 5.911 m
Attendance: 3.000-10.000
Entries accepted: 30
Starters: 20
Finishers: 11

Pole position: Ickx in 1.43,96 = 204,690 kmh
Fastest lap: Bell in 1.49,8 = 193,803 kmh

Distance: 6 hours
Average speed: 184,086 kmh
Weather: Sunny and hot
Ruleset: Group 1-5/76
Car info: 1976 Cars

 

Only 22 cars in practice for this race; and yet again BMW stole victory.
In the beginning, all went well for Porsche. Two cars on the front row, the Martini car nearly four seconds faster than the Evertz car. The fastest BMW was 2 seconds slower than the second-placed car.
In Friday practice, the Lancia was destroyed by fire in the Texaco chicane; and the Schnitzer CSL had a forceful coming together with the armco - but this car could be repaired in time - the Lancia would never return to the championship.
Porsche had taken a precaution; works driver Schurti could drive the Evertz car, if necessary - the race director answered a request from Porsche. But there was no written evidence of this decision - and that was to prove fatal in the end.
Then in the race, the Martini car retired before half-distance, after many pit stops. Schurti took over the Evertz car, so BMW race manager Neerpasch strolled to the race officials, demanding the evidence that Schurti was entered on the #3 car. Of course, such evidence did not exist, and the Evertz car was disqualified. So the only remaining group 5 Porsche was the Kremer car, rebuilt after a fire in Le Mans. It was piloted by Bell and Schuppan, since Heyer and Wollek were at the Norisring. The car had been disappointing in practice and especially Bell seemed to miss confidence in the car. But in the race it appeared up front when the other two retired, and it had 2 minutes in hand over the BMW armada. But the Kremer car ran into the same sort of problems - the throttle slide axle broke - that cost them 10 minutes and the race. A double BMW victory therefore, with Quester and Nilsson winning.

Group 5
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 12 Team Schnitzer
BMW 3.5 CSL		 Dieter Quester, A
Gunnar Nilsson, S
 3498 L6 Div. 3 187 laps, 6:00.16,4 4 1.50,16    
2 2 14 Hermetite Products
BMW 3.5 CSL		 John Fitzpatrick, GB
Tom Walkinshaw, GB
 3498 L6 Div. 3 186 6 1.52,41    
3 3 5 GVEA
Porsche 934/5		 Claude Haldi, CH
Peter Zbinden, CH
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 182 5 1.51,04    
4 4 2 Porsche Kremer Racing
Porsche 935 Kremer		 Derek Bell, GB
Vern Schuppan, AUS
 2857 tc B6 Div. 3 175 7 1.52,42 1.49,8  
5 5 10  
Porsche 934		 Girolamo Capra, I
Gabriele Gottifredi, I
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 GT 169 20 2.08,58    
6 1 31 Team Schnitzer Rodenstock
BMW 2002		 Norbert Neumann, D
Kalli Hufstad, D
 1990 L4 Div. 1 166 16 2.05,34    
7 1 35 Scuderia Brescia Corse
Porsche Carrera RSR		 Ruggero Parpinelli, I
"Tormene", I
 2994 B6 Div. 1 165 15 2.04,76    
8 6 11 Scuderia Brescia Corse
De Tomaso Pantera		 Maurizio Micangeli, I
Carlo Pietromarchi, I
 5763 V8 Div. 3 163 10 1.57,81    
9 7 6 Porsche Kannacher Krefeld/Valvoline Deutschland
Porsche 934/5		 Eberhard Sindel, D
Günther Steckkönig, D
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 162 8 1.54,79    
10 8 9 Jolly Club
Porsche 934/5		 Silvano Frisori, I
Alessandro Moncini ("Moncini"), I
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 160 14 2.03,19    
11 9 4 Egon Evertz KG Solingen
Porsche 934		 Dieter Schmid, D
Karl Oppitzhauser, A
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 GT 150 17 2.06,12    
DNF   17 Scuderia Brescia Corse
De Tomaso Pantera		 Piergiorgio Furlanetto ("Kabibo"), I
Alessandro Dazzan, I
 5763 V8 Div. 3 Gr. 3 113 21 2.11,09   Engine
DSQ   3 Egon Evertz KG Solingen
Porsche 934/5		 Leo Kinnunen, SF
Manfred Schurti, FL
Egon Evertz, D
 2993 tc B6 Div. 3 112 2 1.47,82   DSQ: illegal drive
DNF   26  
Porsche Carrera RSR		 Kurt Simonsen, S
Kenneth Leim, S
 2994 B6 Div. 1 109 11 1.59,68   Engine
DNF   1 Martini Racing
Porsche 935		 Jacky Ickx, B
(Manfred Schurti, FL)
 2857 tc B6 Div. 3 83 1 1.43,96   Engine
DNF   33 Jolly Club
Ford Escort II RS		 Martino Finotto, I
Umberto Grano, I
 1975 L4 Div. 1 72 9 1.57,44    
DNF   18  
De Tomaso Pantera		 Germano Prenol ("Willer"), I
Pierre Polese, F
 5763 V8 Div. 3 Gr. 3 60 18 2.07,99   Engine
DNF   15 Faltz-Alpina Essen
BMW 3.5 CSL		 Ronnie Peterson, S
Harald Grohs, D
(Hughes de Fierlant, B)
 3498 L6 Div. 3 58 3 1.49,48   Clutch
DNF   19 Team Brock
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Peter Brock, AUS
Guy de Saint-Pierre, F
Jean-Claude Depince ("Depnic"), F
 3498 L6 Div. 3 42 13 2.01,79   Engine
DNF   16  
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Graziano Cancian, D
(Friedhelm Theissen, D)
(Manfred Verkühlen, D)
 3498 L6 Div. 3 7 19 2.08,46   Fire
DNS   34 Jolly Club
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Dino Male, I
Antonio Carrotta, I
Martino Finotto, I
 1975 L4 Div. 1   (12) 2.00,33   Only one driver qualified
DNS   25 Lancia Squadra Corse
Lancia Stratos Turbo		 Vittorio Brambilla, I
Carlo Facetti, I
 2418 tc V6 Div. 3         Fire