1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1960
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The sixth 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also VI. International 1000 km race world championship race sports cars at the Nürburgring , found on 22 May 1960 to the Nordschleife of Nürburgring place and was the fourth championship round of the World Sportscar Championship this year.
Before the race
When the engines for the Le Mans start were started on Sunday, May 22, just before 9 a.m. , three races for this year's World Championship had already come to an end. The season started in South America at the end of January . At 1000 km Buenos Aires remained Phil Hill and Cliff Allison in the plant - Ferrari 250TR59 / 60 Fantuzzi Spyder victorious. Two successes for Porsche followed . Hans Herrmann and Olivier Gendebien won on one of Joakim Bonnier reported Porsche 718 RS 60 , the 12-hour race at Sebring . Herrmann and Bonnier, this time in the -718 plant , then won the Targa Florio in Sicily .
In the World Championship of Brands, Porsche led with 20 points, two points ahead of Ferrari .
The race
The 1000 km race on the Nürburgring, which was held for the first time in 1953 , had meanwhile become a major sporting event. In 1960, 250,000 spectators came to the race, some of whom camped around the race track many days before the start . Even bad weather - there were cold, wet and foggy days in 1960 - could not prevent the masses from attending the endurance race in the Eifel . One of the reasons for this rush was the sporting successes of Porsche. Since the two Frenchmen Auguste Veuillet and Edmond Mouche celebrated a class victory in a Porsche 356/4 SL Coupé at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1951 , the racing cars from Zuffenhausen have been present in sports car racing. The first overall victories were achieved at the end of the 1950s.
In 1960 the 718 was the emergency vehicle in the sports car world championship. This year, the 718 RS 60 had a 1.6-liter, 4-cylinder boxer engine with an output of 160 hp (118 kW). When empty, the car weighed only 548 kg. The agile vehicle reached a top speed of 260 km / h on the straight. The three works cars were driven by Joakim Bonnier, Oliver Gendebien, Hans Herrmann, Maurice Trintignant , Edgar Barth and Graham Hill . Porsche registered two 356s for the three Spyders. A Porsche 356 B Carrera Abarth GTL for Joseph Greger and Herbert Linge and a Porsche 356 B Super 90 Exp for Helmut Schulze and Wittigo von Einsiedel .
In addition to this year's 24-hour Le Mans race , which was held in June, the event at the Nürburgring had the strongest field of participants. Ferrari came to Germany with four works cars, a 250TR59 / 60, a 250TRI / 60 and two Dino 246S . Drivers were Cliff Allison, Phil Hill, Willy Mairesse , Wolfgang von Trips , Richie Ginther , Giorgio Scarlatti , Giulio Cabianca and Ludovico Scarfiotti . There were also reports from the Scuderia Serenissima and the Mexican Rodríguez brothers. Unthinkable in the 2010s, Camoradi Racing came to the 1000 km race with vehicles from three brands. Stirling Moss , Dan Gurney , Gino Munaron and Masten Gregory each drove a Maserati Tipo 61 . Fritz Hahnl and Helmut Zick drove a Porsche 356 B Carrera; Leon Lilley and Fred Gamble were behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Corvette .
The Aston Martin works team had won the World Sports Car Championship in 1959 and at the end of the year ceased racing, which was headed by John Wyer . In 1960, Aston Martin sports cars competed for the first time at the Nürburgring. Border Reivers reported a DBR1 / 300 for Jim Clark and Roy Salvadori . Graham Whitehead traveled with a second DBR1 / 300 , his team partner was Henry Taylor .
Stirling Moss won his fourth 1000 km race at the Nürburgring, the third in a row, and thus became the decisive driver of the long distance there. This year he had a team mate of the same rank, Dan Gurney, who drove the same lap times as him. Although the lead changed several times during the race, Moss and Gurney had a clear lead of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over the Porsche duo Joakim Bonnier and Olivier Gendebien at the end of the race. Both Aston Martin retired and Ferrari had to be content with third place. Carlo-Maria Abate and Colin Davis were able to win at least the racing class for GT cars over 2 liters in the Scuderia Serenissima's Ferrari 250 GT LWB . There were also class wins for Porsche. The two Swiss Heini Walter and Thomas Losinger won the class for sports cars with a displacement of up to 1.6 liters on their 718 RSK. Paul-Ernst Strähle and Hans-Joachim Walter were victorious in the Porsche 356 B Carrera Abarth GTL in the GT class up to 2 liters displacement.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Round | ||
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1 | S 3.0 | 5 |
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Maserati Tipo 61 | 44 | ||
2 | S 2.0 | 21st |
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Porsche 718 RS 60 | 44 | ||
3 | S 3.0 | 2 |
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Ferrari 250TR59 / 60 | 44 | ||
4th | S 2.0 | 23 |
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Porsche 718 RS 60 | 44 | ||
5 | S 3.0 | 6th |
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Maserati Tipo 61 | 43 | ||
6th | S 1.6 | 36 |
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Porsche 718 RSK | 42 | ||
7th | S 1.6 | 31 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera Abarth GTL Exp | 41 | ||
8th | GT + 2.0 | 77 |
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Ferrari 250 GT LWB | 41 | ||
9 | S 1.6 | 34 |
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Porsche 718 RS 60 | 40 | ||
10 | GT 2.0 | 83 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera Abarth GTL | 40 | ||
11 | GT + 2.0 | 72 |
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Ferrari 250 GT LWB | 40 | ||
12 | GT 2.0 | 84 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera | 40 | ||
13 | GT 2.0 | 85 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera Abarth GTL | 40 | ||
14th | GT 2.0 | 82 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera | 40 | ||
15th | S 3.0 | 11 |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | 40 | ||
16 | GT 2.0 | 89 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera | 40 | ||
17th | S 1.15 | 53 |
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Lola MK1 | 40 | ||
18th | S 2.0 | 24 |
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Lotus 15 Series 2 | 40 | ||
19th | S 1.6 | 32 |
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Porsche 356 B Super 90 Exp | 39 | ||
20th | GT 1.3 | 117 |
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Lotus Elite | 39 | ||
21st | GT 1.3 | 115 |
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Lotus Elite | 39 | ||
22nd | S 3.0 | 9 |
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Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 | 39 | ||
23 | GT + 2.0 | 17th |
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Ferrari 250 GT LWB | 38 | ||
24 | S 1.15 | 55 |
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Lola Mk1 | 38 | ||
25th | S 1.15 | 52 |
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Lola Mk1 | 38 | ||
26th | GT 2.0 | 86 |
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Porsche 356 B Carrera | 38 | ||
27 | S 2.0 | 25th |
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Lotus 15 | 38 | ||
28 | GT 1.3 | 108 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS | 37 | ||
29 | S 1.15 | 54 |
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Lola Mk1 | 37 | ||
30th | S 1.15 | 51 |
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DB HBR5 | 37 | ||
31 | GT 1.3 | 111 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SVZ | 37 | ||
32 | GT 1.3 | 121 |
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Lotus Elite | 36 | ||
33 | GT 2.0 | 93 |
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AC Ace | 36 | ||
34 | GT 1.3 | 109 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 36 | ||
35 | GT + 2.0 | 74 |
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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | 36 | ||
36 | S 850 | 62 |
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DB HBR5 | 36 | ||
37 | GT 2.0 | 88 |
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Porsche 356 B Super 90 | 35 | ||
38 | S 1.15 | 57 |
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Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite | 35 | ||
39 | S 850 | 61 |
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DB HBR5 | 33 | ||
40 | GT 1.3 | 122 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 33 | ||
41 | S 850 | 63 |
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Fiat-Abarth 850 | 31 | ||
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42 | S 3.0 | 1 |
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Ferrari 250TRI / 60 | 34 | ||
43 | S 2.0 | 27 |
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Ferrari Dino 196 S. | 31 | ||
44 | S 1.6 | 30th |
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Porsche 718 RS 60 | 28 | ||
45 | GT 1.3 | 119 |
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Lotus Elite | 28 | ||
46 | GT 1.3 | 116 |
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Lotus Elite | 26th | ||
47 | GT 2.0 | 95 |
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MGA | 24 | ||
48 | GT 2.0 | 92 |
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AC Ace | 15th | ||
49 | S 3.0 | 4th |
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Ferrari Dino 246 S. | 14th | ||
50 | GT 1.3 | 112 |
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Lotus Elite | 14th | ||
51 | S 3.0 | 3 |
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Ferrari Dino 246S | 13 | ||
52 | S 3.0 | 7th |
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Aston Martin DBR1 | 7th | ||
53 | S 3.0 | 16 |
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Ferrari 250 GT California | 7th | ||
54 | S 3.0 | 8th |
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Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 | 6th | ||
55 | GT 2.0 | 87 |
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Porsche 356 B | 4th | ||
56 | GT 1.3 | 103 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta | 4th | ||
57 | GT 1.3 | 107 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 4th | ||
58 | S 2.0 | 110 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 4th | ||
59 | S 2.0 | 26th |
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Maserati 200SI | |||
60 | S 1.6 | 37 |
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Elva Mk.V | |||
61 | GT + 2.0 | 71 |
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Chevrolet Corvette | |||
62 | GT 2.0 | 90 |
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Porsche 356 B | |||
63 | GT 2.0 | 91 |
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Porsche 356 B | |||
64 | GT 2.0 | 94 |
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Triumph TR3 | |||
65 | GT 1.3 | 108 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta | |||
66 | GT 1.3 | 120 |
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Lotus Elite | |||
67 | GT 1.3 | 123 |
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68 | S 3.0 | 12 |
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Ferrari 250TR | 1 | ||
69 | S 2.0 | 22nd |
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Porsche 718 RS 60 | 2 | ||
70 | GT + 2.0 | 73 |
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Ferrari 250 GT | 3 | ||
71 | GT + 2.0 | 75 |
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Aston Martin DB4 GT | 4th | ||
72 | GT + 2.0 | 78 |
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Ferrari 250 GT California | 5 | ||
73 | GT 1.3 | 118 |
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Lotus Elite | 6th |
1 not started 2 training vehicle 3 accident during training 4 vehicle not homologated 5 accident during training 6 accident during training
Only in the entry list
Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis |
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74 | S 3.0 | 10 |
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Jaguar D-Type |
75 | S 3.0 | 14th |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB |
76 | S 2.0 | 28 |
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Cooper Monaco T49 |
77 | S 1.6 | 33 |
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Porsche 718 RSK |
78 | S 1.6 | 38 |
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Osca 1500S |
79 | S 1.6 | 39 |
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Osca 1500S |
80 | S 1.6 | 40 |
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Lotus 15 |
81 | S 1.6 | 41 |
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Maserati 150S |
82 | S 1.15 | 56 |
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Lotus Eleven |
83 | GT + 2.0 | 76 |
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jaguar |
84 | GT 1.3 | 102 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV |
85 | GT 1.3 | 106 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta |
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 85
- Started: 67
- Rated: 41
- Race classes: 8
- Spectators: 250,000
- Weather on race day: cool, rainy and fog on some sections of the track
- Route length: 22.810 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 7: 31: 40,500 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 44
- Total distance of the winning team: 1003.640 km
- Winner's average: 133.322 km / h
- Pole position: Stirling Moss - Maserati Tipo 61 (# 5) - 9: 50.100
- Fastest race lap: Stirling Moss - Maserati Tipo 61 (# 5) - 9: 37,000 = 142.315 km / h
- Racing series: 4th round of the 1960 Sports Car World Championship
literature
- Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
Web links
Predecessor race Targa Florio 1960 |
Sports car world championship |
Succession race 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans |