1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1969

The field in the introductory lap in the south bend. In front of the guide car, driven by Juan Manuel Fangio . Behind left the Porsche 908/02 by Jo Siffert and besides the Ferrari 312P with Chris Amon at the wheel. Behind the Porsche 908/02 from Gerhard Mitter

Jo Siffert in the Porsche 908/02 with the Porsche Austria paint scheme

The Porsche 917 by Frank Gardner and David Piper during the race

Gerhard Mitter in the Porsche 908 with starting number 2. After considerable technical problems, Mitter and team-mate Udo Schütz finished 31st in the overall ranking

Chris Amon in the Ferrari 312P in the Südkehre. After an electrical defect, the car broke down after driving 28 laps

Behind five Porsche 908s, the Ford GT40 of Helmut Kelleners and Reinhold Joest came in sixth overall

Scuderia Filipinetti - Lola T70 Mk.3B GT

Lancia Fulvia HF F&M Special; Two factory Fulvias were registered and were driven by Sandro Munari / Rauno Aaltonen and Claudio Maglioli / Raffaele Pinto to the 27th and 29th place respectively in the overall ranking

NSU Spiess 1300; Manfred Spiess and Heinz Gilges achieved 37th place in the final ranking with this car

The 15th 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also ADAC 1000 km race on the Nürburgring, Nürburgring , took place on June 1, 1969 on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring and was the seventh round of the sports car world championship of that year.

Before the race

Before the race at the Nürburgring, the seventh race of the season, a clear favorite in the world championship had emerged. After the two endurance races in the United States , the Brands Hatch 6-hour race began a winning streak for Porsche . The German team had no win in North America . The 24 Hours of Daytona in 1969 won Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons on one of Roger Penske reported Lola T70 Mk.3B GT . In Sebring , Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver drove an aging Ford GT40 to overall victory. Jo Siffert and Brian Redman opened the successful run for Porsche at Brands Hatch. In the first half of the season, the 33-year-old Swiss and his one year younger British partner turned out to be the strongest driving team in the sports car scene. While Siffert always drove the respective starting turn and thereby gained a notable lead over the competition with a high, but calculated risk, Redman then managed it confidently and gently. This tactic also led to victory in the 1000 km race in Monza . After Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schütz's victory at the Targa Florio , Siffert and Redman won again in Spa .

The race

Teams, vehicles and drivers

The 1000 km race took place later in the year in 1969 than in the previous seasons, just two weeks before the Le Mans 24-hour race , the season highlight in the world championship. The two French works teams from Matra and Alpine decided not to take part in the Nürburgring in order to be able to concentrate fully on the home race. The Scuderia Ferrari only reported a 312P for Chris Amon and Pedro Rodriguez . In contrast to the 12 and 24 hour races, where the racing team around John Wyer relied on the Ford GT40, they fielded the Mirage M2 / 300 in the Eifel . The Wyer team management was dissatisfied with the powerful, but heavy and fuel-consuming V12 engines from BRM and, before the 1000 km race, upgraded a chassis to the 3-liter V8 DFV engine, also from Formula 1 from Cosworth around. Since the Cosworth engine was wider than the BRM engine and had a Hewland gearbox (the BRM engine worked with a ZF gearbox), the rear of the Mirage had to be rebuilt. The side radiators had to be relocated to the front of the car. Since there was little time for the conversion, the team did not do sufficient test work before the race. The car was driven by Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver. The second Mirage still had the BRM engine and was driven by David Hobbs and Mike Hailwood .

Immediately after the race in Belgium, the Porsche team management booked the Nürburgring for test drives. There was driving on both the north and south loops . No races have been held on the 7.747-kilometer Südschleife since the end of 1968. The train was still used for test drives. A few days after Porsche, Autodelta also tested the Tipo 33 on the Südschleife. Test drives with the Porsche 917 and 908 were on the program at Porsche under the direction of Peter Falk . A new body variant was built for the 908 in Zuffenhausen . The main innovations were a smaller cockpit opening and an aerodynamically optimized front end in the wind tunnel. Rolf Stommelen drove remarkable times with the 908, 8: 06,000 minutes on the Nordschleife and 2: 05,000 minutes on the Südschleife. When trying to undercut the Stommelen time on the Südschleife, Jo Siffert had a serious accident in the 908. Siffert, who had hardly driven the Südschleife, braked the Müllenbach curve too late, whereupon the Spyder deviated from the track and overturned. The car came to rest with the wheels up; the driver was able to get out of the wreck unharmed with the help of some marshals.

The 917 was also driven on the north and south loops. In some publications about the Porsche 917, the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring is referred to as the debut of this racing car model. In fact, the 917 was used for the first time in the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps . Jo Siffert drove the car there in rainy training and criticized the driving behavior. Siffert and Redman used the 908 for the race, so the 917 was initially without a driver. After Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schütz's 908 had an engine failure on the last day of training, they contested the race with the 917. After only one lap, the car had to be parked due to an over-revving engine. Stommelen achieved 2: 20,000 minutes with the 917 on the Südschleife, on the Nordschleife he did not come under 8: 39,000 minutes. According to the Porsche computer simulation, the 917 on the Nordschleife should be four seconds faster than the 908 per lap. In reality, however, the test drives were 30 seconds short. All of the factory drivers who drove the 917 during the test drives complained about the poor driving characteristics. Hans Herrmann described the vehicle as cumbersome, Kurt Ahrens as an ulcer and Gerhard Mitter as dangerous. Since none of the works drivers wanted to drive a 917 in the race, but Ferry Porsche and Ferdinand Piëch really wanted to use the model, Porsche race director Rico Steinemann had to act. His first contact was Masten Gregory , who declined. He then turned to the two BMW factory drivers Hubert Hahne and Dieter Quester . In addition to a small entry fee, Steinemann offered them a lucrative bonus should they drive the car to the finish. While Hubert Hahne quickly agreed, Dieter Quester asked for time to think about it. Quester had received approval from BMW to drive an Abarth 1300 SP for Carlo Abarth , which he did during the first practice session. Hahne drove three laps with the 917 and achieved a time of 8: 38,000 minutes on its fastest lap. After some back and forth, Quester canceled Carlo Abarth's driver contract and accepted the Porsche offer. On Friday afternoon he drove two laps in the Porsche and then reported on his impressions. He has to constantly correct on the steering wheel with enormous effort. He found "the muscle man strong enough to fear". In the evening, BMW racing director Alex von Falkenhausen , Quester's father-in-law, phoned him and then Hubert Hahne and explained to both of them that BMW had not given the go-ahead for a Porsche race. Steinemann was again without a driver. The group of drivers who could be entrusted with a car like the 917 was no longer particularly large. Steinemann decided to contact David Piper and reached him by phone late in the evening. Piper was a busy racing driver who competed in car races almost every weekend and always stepped in at short notice. At Spa he started for Ferrari for Chris Amon, who had measles . Piper immediately agreed and referred his neighbor Frank Gardner as the second driver. They flew to Germany that night in a private plane paid for by Porsche and arrived at the route on Saturday morning.

After abandoning the 917, the Porsche works drivers started with 908 chassis. In the early summer, Louise Piëch , the sister of Ferry Porsche and the mother of Ferdinand Piëch, had set up a second Porsche racing team for Porsche Holding in Salzburg and acquired two Porsche 908 Spyders. The two Porsche works drivers Rudi Lins and Richard Attwood drove a 908 . The second Spyder was intended as a replacement car and was loaned to the German works team after the accident by Siffert during testing. The chassis were raffled off among the factory drivers before the Friday practice session and Siffert and co-pilot Redman pulled the Porsche Salzburg 908. The other driver pairings were: Rolf Stommelen / Hans Herrmann, Vic Elford / Kurt Ahrens, Willi Kauhsen / Karl von Wendt and Gerhard Mitter / Udo Schütz.

Autodelta brought three Tipo 33/2s to the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, the use of which was financed by the German Alfa Romeo dealers. The cars were registered in the sports car class up to 2 liters and were driven by Carlo Facetti / Herbert Schultze , Andrea de Adamich / Nino Vaccarella and Nanni Galli / Ignazio Giunti .

Training and qualification

On Friday, the first day of training, the drivers tried to break the 8-minute barrier for one lap, which had only been achieved once before. Chris Amon set a time of 7: 57,000 minutes in a test drive in the Ferrari 312F1 in 1968 . Pedro Rodríguez drove 8: 19,000 minutes in a Ferrari, then Schütz in a Porsche 8: 12,000 minutes, which his team-mate Mitter improved to 8: 10,000 minutes a little later. Erich Bitter had a serious accident in the Abarth on the Brünnchen section when the car took off and lost a wheel on landing. Bitter emerged from the wreck with minor injuries. After Rodríguez was stopped at 8: 03,200, Jo Siffert almost broke the 8-minute barrier in the 908 with a time of 8: 00,200 minutes. Chris Amon in the Ferrari was only a tenth of a second slower. There were two more serious accidents in the afternoon. The Swede Björn Rothstein had an accident in the Lola T70 Mk.3B GT on the Antonius beech section. He was admitted to the Adenau hospital with a severe shock as well as a broken jaw and vertebral fracture. There was a total write-off on the Lola. At kilometer 12.8, the Porsche 908 lifted off with Vic Elford at the wheel and crashed into an earth wall after it hit the track. The Porsche was also a total write-off. Elford was unharmed. Due to rainy weather on Saturday there was no improvement in the lap times.

The course of the race

Before the race, Rico Steinmann tried to persuade Gerhard Mitter to switch to Jo Siffert's car. Brian Redman had not achieved any lap times worth mentioning in practice and the Porsche race director feared the Amon / Rodríguez-Ferrari would be superior. However, Mitter wanted to contest the race with his German team partner Udo Schütz and refused the exchange. He started from the second row, next to him team mate Rolf Stommelen. Jo Siffert in the Porsche and Chris Amon in the Ferrari were on the front row. Vic Elford in the replacement car and Richard Attwood in the Porsche-Salzburg 908 started the race from the third row. Fourth row: Willy Kauhsen in the Porsche 908 and Jacky Ickx in the Mirage. Fifth row: The Lola T70 from Joakim Bonnier and Herbert Müller and the Porsche 917, for which the training time was credited by Hubert Hahne. Gardner and Piper had drawn a lottery who had to do the starting turn, Piper lost and had to start with the 917.

At the start, Gerhard Mitter took the lead between Siffert and Amon before the south bend and held it until Breitscheid. After the first lap, Siffert led the Porsche two seconds ahead of Mitter. Amon in the Ferrari was 16 seconds behind and was just ahead of Elford. Attwood, Stommelen and Jacky Ickx followed at a distance in the Mirage. On the second lap, Siffert drove 8: 40,000 minutes, Mitter was three seconds slower, but Amon was two seconds faster. David Piper drove the second lap in 917 in 9: 38,000 minutes and was in 13th place. In the following laps a three-way battle developed between Siffert, Mitter and Amon for the lead in the race. While Siffert couldn't drive away from the front, Amon Mitter came closer and closer. In midfield, Johannes Ortner was able to overtake Piper's 917 in a 2-liter Abarth. Amon Mitter passed in the fourth lap and reduced the gap to Siffert to six seconds on lap seven. In the eighth lap, Siffert, who drove 8: 06.600 minutes on a partially wet road, was able to clearly set himself apart from Amon, who only drove 8: 16,000 minutes because of lapping.

The standings after nine laps: Siffert 17 seconds ahead of Amon, followed by the 908 from Gerhard Mitter, Rolf Stommelen, Vic Elford, Richard Attwood and Willy Kauhsen. Eighth was Jacky Ickx, who came to the pits for the first refueling stop this lap. After the tenth lap, David Piper stopped to refuel and to hand over the 917 to Frank Gardner. The stay at the boxes took 1 minute and 30 seconds as the Gardner seat did not click into place immediately. The eleventh lap was a special spectacle, as all Porsche 908s driving on the same lap came to the pits in quick succession to refuel and change drivers. At a time when there were neither barriers for mechanics nor speed limits in the pit lane, Jo Siffert headed for the Porsche pit at full speed. He braked the 908 hard and jumped out of the car. The car was refueled with two hoses. During the refueling process, Gerhard Mitter stopped just behind it. Even before Brian Redman took the leading Porsche back on the track after 45 seconds, Rolf Stommelen stopped the third 908. The mechanics had to wait because there was no free tank hose for the Stommelen / Herrmann car. For Udo Schütz it took 57 seconds before he could start driving again. When the Stommelen car, in which Hans Herrmann had already taken a seat, could finally be refueled, the remaining three 908 were already in the pits. Hans Herrmann started again after 65 seconds, Kurt Ahrens after 55 seconds, Karl von Wendt after 50 seconds and Rudi Lins was dispatched in 47 seconds.

Ferrari also made the first refueling stop on the eleventh lap and Amon handed the car over to Pedro Rodríguez. Due to the faster stop and a significantly faster lap, Redman led after the 12th lap with a lead of 35 seconds over Rodríguez. Mitter and Schütz's hopes for victory ended in this round. Schütz came back to the pits at a slow pace. The left front wheel was flat and protruded from the body at an angle. A wheel bearing got stuck and the axle journal broke. The entire front suspension had to be removed for repairs.

The concern of Porsche race director Rico Steinemann that Brian Redman could not drive fast laps turned out to be unfounded. Redman consistently set faster lap times than Rodríguez. After the 15th lap the Ferrari was 88 seconds behind. Third was Hans Herrmann. By the second refueling stop, the gap grew to almost two minutes. After the race, Rodríguez explained his bad lap times with vibrations in the rear of the Ferrari. On lap 25, the race was decided to the disadvantage of Ferrari when Chris Amon pits with a puncture and lost another 85 seconds. In the 28th lap Amon drove the fastest lap of the race with 8: 03.300, before the Ferrari retired one lap later with a broken ignition coil caused by the vibrations.

Two laps before the end of the race, Rico Steinemann called Brian Redman to the pits for an unplanned stop with a flag signal. He wanted to enable Jo Siffert to cross the finish line first. The lead over the second placed Stommelen / Herrmann was four minutes. Ahrens / Elford finished third another 65 seconds behind. Lins / Attwood and Kauhsen / von Wendt completed the five-fold victory for Porsche. David Piper and Frank Gardner finished eighth overall with the Porsche 917. The gap to the victorious Porsche 908, however, was four laps.

With victory in the 1000 km race, Porsche won the title of sports car world champion early and for the first time in the company's history. Porsche Head of Development Helmuth Bott after the race: “We all need rest now, the drivers, the mechanics, the engineers, everyone. Such a mammoth development and racing program cannot be pushed through every year. "

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	P 3.0	1T	Porsche System Engineering	Jo Siffert Brian Redman	Porsche 908/02	44
2	P 3.0	4th	Porsche System Engineering	Hans Herrmann Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 908/02 flounder	44
3	P 3.0	3T	Porsche System Engineering	Vic Elford Kurt Ahrens	Porsche 908/02	44
4th	P 3.0	6th	Salzburg Porsche Constructions Austria	Rudi Lin's Richard Attwood	Porsche 908/02	43
5	P 3.0	5	Porsche System Engineering	Willi Kauhsen Karl von Wendt	Porsche 908/02	42
6th	S 5.0	56	IGFA Deutsche Auto Zeitung Cologne	Helmut Kellener's Reinhold Joest	Ford GT40	41
7th	S 2.0	84	Alfa Romeo Germany	Carlo Facetti Herbert Schultze	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2	40
8th	S 5.0	61	Porsche System Engineering	David Piper Frank Gardner	Porsche 917	40
9	S 2.0	71	Rainer Ising	Günter Werlich Rainer Ising	Porsche 906	39
10	P 3.0	18th	German BG Racing Team	Gerhard Koch Hans-Dieter Dechent	Porsche 907 2.2	39
11	S 2.0	76	Racing Team VDS	Claude Bourgoignie Gustave Gosselin	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2	39
12	S 2.0	73	William Bradley	Tony Dean William Bradley	Porsche 910	38
13	S 2.0	80	Sten Axelsson	Sten Axelsson Hans Laine	Porsche 906	38
14th	P 2.0	38	Piccionaia Racing Team	Silvio Moser Antonio Nicodemi	Porsche 907	38
15th	S 2.0	86	Alfa Romeo Germany	Andrea de Adamich Nino Vaccarella	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2	38
16	P 2.0	39	Clive Baker	Clive Baker Roger Enever	Chevron B8	37
17th	S 2.0	88	JCB Excavators Ltd.	Peter Brown Tim Stock	Chevron B8	37
18th	GT 2.0	106	Chiquita	Jürgen Neuhaus Dieter Fröhlich	Porsche 911T	37
19th	GT 2.0	109	Kremer Brothers	Reinhardt Stenzel Erwin Kremer	Porsche 911T	37
20th	GT 2.0	107	Hahn motor vehicles	Peter Kaiser Werner Müller	Porsche 911T	37
21st	S 2.0	90	Peter Taggart	Tony Goodwin Raymond Nash	Chevron B8	36
22nd	S 2.0	102	Hans-Dieter Blatzheim	Hans-Dieter Blatzheim Malte Huth	Porsche 911T	36
23	P 2.0	26th	Roger Nathan Racing	Roger Nathan Mike Beckwith	Astra RNR1	36
24	P 2.0	31	Jeremy Richardson	Jeremy Richardson Bernard Farthing	Ginetta G16A	36
25th	GT 2.0	103	Ernst Jüntgen	Ernst Jüntgen Helmut Gillen	Porsche 911S	36
26th	S 2.0	70	Brian Alexander	Vic Walker Brian Alexander	Lotus 47	35
27	P 1.6	50	Lancia Squadra Corse	Sandro Munari Rauno Aaltonen	Lancia Fulvia HF F&M Special	35
28	P 2.0	36	Picchio Rosso	Giampiero Biscaldi Corrado Manfredini	Porsche 907	35
29	P 1.6	51	Lancia Squadra Corse	Claudio Maglioli Raffaele Pinto	Lancia Fulvia HF F&M Special	35
30th	GT 2.0	101	Rally Community Ulm	Eberhard Sindel Dieter Benz	Porsche 911S	34
31	P 3.0	2	Porsche System Engineering	Gerhard Mitter Udo Schütz	Porsche 908/02	34
32	P 1.6	43	Richard Groves	John Moore Rhoddy Harvey-Bailey	Ginetta G12	33
33	P 1.6	40	Jack Wheeler	Martin Davidson Jack Wheeler	Austin-Healey Sprite	33
34	GT 2.0	108	Edgar Herrmann	Hans Schuller Edgar Herrmann	Porsche 911S	32
35	GT 2.0	115	Palladio	Girolamo Capra Angelino Lepri	Lancia Fulvia HF Zagato	32
36	P 2.0	25th	Jean Denton	Mike Garton Jean Denton	MGB	32
37	P 1.6	42	Manfred Spiess	Manfred Spiess Heinz Gilges	NSU Spiess 1300	31
38	GT 2.0	114	Jörg Klasen	Jörg Klasen Peter Otto	Alfa Romeo Duetto	30th
39	P 2.0	34	Abarth-Osella	Johannes Ortner Gijs van Lennep	Abarth 2000 SP	27
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40	P 3.0	7th	Ferrari SEFAC Spa	Chris Amon Pedro Rodríguez	Ferrari 312P	28
41	P 2.0	27	BMW Martini Garage	Günther Selbach Friedhelm Thiessen	Astra RNR1	25th
42	P 1.6	46	Julian Hasler	Peter Jackson Mike Crabtree	Nomad Mk.1	23
43	S 5.0	55	Ecurie Bonnier Scuderia Filipinetti	Jo Bonnier Herbert Müller	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT	23
44	P 3.0	17th	Chris Lawrence	John Wingfield Chris Lawrence	Deep Sanderson 302	21st
45	GT 2.0	104	Hans-Dieter Weigel	Ferfried von Hohenzollern Hans-Dieter Weigel	Porsche 911T	20th
46	GT 2.0	116	Dieter Weizinger	Dieter Weizinger Wilhelm Bisterfeld	Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider	20th
47	P 1.6	54	Dieter Weizinger	Thomas Bossert Rolf Kienen	NSU Spiess 1300	19th
48	P 3.0	9	JW Automotive	David Hobbs Mike Hailwood	Mirage M2 / 300	18th
49	P 3.0	8th	JW Automotive	Jacky Ickx Jackie Oliver	Mirage M2 / 300	16
50	P 1.6	41	Peter Rand	Peter Rand Alain Douarche	Alpine M64	16
51	S 2.0	78	Sportscars Unlimited	Masts Gregory Richard Broström	Porsche 910	15th
52	P 2.0	30th	Scodec de Cadenet	Mike Walton Alain de Cadenet	Ferrari Dino 206S	12
53	S 2.0	91	Chevron Cars	John Hine Reine Wisell	Chevron B8	12
54	P 1.6	53	Karl-Heinz Kleine	Karl-Heinz Kleine Günther Obid	Abarth 1300 OT	10
55	S 2.0	77	Association Südd. Car athlete	Sepp Greger Ernst Kraus	Porsche 910	6th
56	P 3.0	16	Racing Team VDS	Teddy Pilette Rob Slotemaker	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2 2.5	5
57	S 2.0	96	Chevron Germany	Dieter Basche Nikolaus Killenberg	Chevron B8	5
58	S 2.0	81	Nick Gold	Nick Gold Gordon Spice	Porsche 906	4th
59	P 2.0	28	Bam-Bam	Hans Wängstre Evert Christofferson	Ferrari Dino 206S	3
60	GT 2.0	100	Paul-Ernst Straehle	Herbert Linge Roland Bauer	Porsche 911T	3
61	P 1.6	48	Falken Racing	John Markey Angus Clydesdale	Costin-Nathan GT	2
62	S 5.0	66	David prophet	David prophet Edward Nelson	Lola T70 Mk.3 GT	2
63	P 3.0	22nd	McKechnie Racing	Max Wilson Mike Walker	Lola T70P	1
64	P 1.6	45	Bridges Walker	John Bridges John Lepp	Chevron B8	1
65	S 2.0	85	Alfa Romeo Germany	Nanni Galli Ignazio Giunti	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2	1
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66	P 3.0	19th	Helmut Krause	Helmut Krause Ernst Furtmayr	Porsche 907 2.2	1
67	P 1.6	44	Abarth-Osella	Toine Hezemans Dieter Quester Erich Bitter	Abarth 1300 SP	2
68	S 5.0	60	PR For Men	Picko Troberg Bjorn Rothstein	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT	3
69	S 5.0	64	Nicholas Granville-Smith	Nicholas Granville-Smith Gordon Miles	Shelby Cobra 289	4th
70	S 2.0	75	Abarth-Osella	Helmut Leuze Giampiero Biscaldi	Abarth 2000 p	5
71	S 2.0	94	Jolly Club	Giampiero Moretti Everardo Ostini	Porsche 910	6th
72	P 3.0	1	Porsche System Engineering	Jo Siffert Brian Redman	Porsche 908/02 flounder	7th
73	P 3.0	3	Porsche System Engineering	Vic Elford Kurt Ahrens	Porsche 908/02 flounder	8th

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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
74	P 3.0	12	Serenissima	Jonathan Williams Juan-Manuel Bordeu	Serenissima Mk.168
75	P 3.0	14th	Autodelta	Nino Vaccarella	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3
76	P 3.0	15th	Autodelta	Mario Casoni	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3
77	P 3.0	20th	Tony Beeson	Tony Beeson John Markey	Chevron B8
78	P 2.0	32	Mark Konig	Mark Konig	Nomad Mk.2
79	P 2.0	33	Compact conversion	Paul Sutcliffe John MacDonald	Ginetta G12
80	P 2.0	35	Scuderia Pescara	Leandro Terra Turillo Barbuscia	Ferrari Dino 206P
81	P 2.0	37	Scuderia Madunina	Enrico Pinto Giovanni Alberti	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2
82	P 1.6	47	Falken Racing	Andrew Mylius Alan Harvey	Chevron B8
83	P 1.6	49	Peter Clarke	Peter Clarke Sidney Segal	Emeron
84	P 1.6	52	John Britten	Gabriele Konig John Britten	MG Midget
85	S 5.0	57	David Piper	David Piper	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT
86	S 5.0	58	Ulf Norinder	Ulf Norinder Robin Widdows	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT
87	S 5.0	59	Robin Orms	Mike De Udy	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT
88	S 5.0	62	Porsche System Engineering		Porsche 917
89	S 5.0	63	Porsche System Engineering		Porsche 917
90	S 5.0	65	Techspeed Racing	Chris Craft Eric Liddell	Lola T70 Mk.3 GT
91	S 2.0	72	Auto-Neuser	Anton Fischhaber Fritz Neuser	Porsche 906
92	S 2.0	74	Abarth-Osella		Abarth 2000 p
93	S 2.0	79	Kurt Ahrens	Eckhard Schimpf Manfred Berthold	Abarth 1300 OT
94	S 2.0	82	Bosch Vienna	Otto Stuppacher Kurt Rieder	Porsche 906
95	S 2.0	83	Worcestershire Racing	John Burton Mike Walker	Chevron B8
96	S 2.0	87	Falken Racing	Angus Clydesdale John Markey	Chevron B8
97	S 2.0	89	Paul Vestey	Paul Vestey Paul Ridgway	Chevron B8
98	S 2.0	92	Guy Edwards	Guy Edwards Mike Franey	Chevron B8
99	S 2.0	93	International Racing Club	Joachim Komusin Siegfried Müller	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2
100	S 2.0	97	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Ennio Bonomelli Cesare Guzzi	Porsche 906
101	GT 2.0	105	Hediri Racing	Peter Wisskirchen Christian Schmarje	Porsche 911T
102	GT 2.0	117	International Racing Club	Thomas Teves Dieter Mohr	Alfa Romeo Duetto

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
P 3.0	Jo Siffert	Brian Redman	Porsche 908/02	Overall victory
P 2.0	Silvio Moser	Antonio Nicodemi	Porsche 907	Rank 14
P 1.6	Sandro Munari	Rauno Aaltonen	Lancia Fulvia HF F&M Special	Rank 27
S 5.0	Helmut Kelleners	Reinhold Joest	Ford GT40	Rank 6
S 2.0	Carlo Facetti	Herbert Schultze	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2	Rank 7
GT 2.0	Jürgen Neuhaus	Dieter Fröhlich	Porsche 911T	Rank 18

Racing data

• Reported: 102
• Started: 65
• Rated: 39
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: cold, light rain
• Route length: 22.835 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6: 11: 02.300 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 44
• Total distance of the winning team: 1004.740 km
• Winner's average: 162.500 km / h
• Pole position: Jo Siffert - Porsche 908/02 (# 1T) - 8: 00.200 = 171.191 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Chris Amon - Ferrari 312P (# 8) - 8: 03.300 = 170.093 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the sports car world championship in 1969

literature

• Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

Commons : 1000 km race on the Nürburgring 1969  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Race report at Motorsport Magazine
• Race results at WSPR Racing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969, p. 128.
2. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969, p. 132.
3. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969, p. 131.
4. ↑ Report and pictures from the Rothstein accident (Swedish)
5. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969, p. 132.
6. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart 1969, p. 148.

Predecessor race 1000 km from Spa-Francorchamps 1969

Sports car world championship

Succession race 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans