Michel Weber (racing driver)

The Porsche 908 long-tail with the Michel Weber overall third in the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans was

Michel Weber (born May 6, 1938 - August 18, 2011 ) was a German entrepreneur and racing driver who also competed with an Austrian driver's license.

life and career

Michel Weber's career as a racing driver began in 1961 with a Porsche 356 B Super 90 at a race in Trier . In the years that followed, he mainly competed in hill climbs and in 1963 became German mountain champion for GT and sports cars in a Porsche Carrera. In 1964 and 1965 he successfully drove the Porsche 904 on the mountain, including sixth on Rossfeld and the winner of the hill climb in the Axamer Lizum.

In the middle of his relatively short career, Weber switched to circuit racing , which he drove in a Porsche 908 and Porsche 917 . His greatest international success was third place in a Porsche 908 at the 1972 Le Mans 24-hour race together with Reinhold Joest and Mario Casoni . After that, Weber only took part in a few races due to a spinal disc disease and retired from racing as a driver.

In 1967 Michel Weber founded a car dealership in Offenbach am Main , where he initially represented Alfa Romeo. In 1982 he became a Ferrari dealer and gradually expanded the range to include Jaguar, Nissan, Lancia, Range Rover and MG. In July 2008 Tomas Bilic took over the company.

Michel Weber died on August 18, 2011 after a long and serious illness. He was married and had children and grandchildren.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1972	Jo Siffert ATE Racing	Porsche 908LH	Reinhold Joest	Mario Casoni	Rank 3

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1963	Hesse Michel Weber	Porsche 356	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
											9					12			DNF				DNF
1964	Michel Weber Scuderia Filipinetti	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
										6th									DNF
1965	Michel Weber	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
													5				4th
1966	Michel Weber	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					DNF
1967	Helmut Krause	Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
														DNF
1972	ATE Racing	Porsche 908	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
											3

Web links

Commons : Michel Weber  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Michel Weber at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Website of the Weber car dealership. Story . Retrieved August 13, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary notice . Retrieved August 13, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results list of racing sports cars . Retrieved August 13, 2016.