1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1971

The future race winner Vic Elford in the Martini- Porsche 908/03 during training in the Hatzenbach section

Jo Siffert in the Wyer-Porsche 908/03 without a helmet at the end of a training session

Herbert Müller at the wheel of a Ferrari 512M

Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari 312PB during practice before entering the pit on the back straight

The Porsche 910 of Sepp Greger In the paddock. On the left the Scuderia Ferrari racing car transporter. In the back left the yellow Chevron B16 by Mike Garton and Roger Heavens

The Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 by Nanni Galli ...

... and Rolf Stommelen

The 17th 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also ADAC 1000 km race and Formula Super-Vau race Nürburgring, Nürburgring Nordschleife , took place on May 30, 1971 on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring and was the eighth round of the sports car world championship this year.

Before the race

World Championship

The 1971 World Sports Car Championship began on January 19 with the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires . The race, which ended with the overall victory of Jo Siffert and Derek Bell in the Porsche 917K , was overshadowed by Ignazio Giunti's fatal accident in the Ferrari 312PB . This was followed by the two endurance races in North America, the Daytona 24-hour race and the Sebring 12-hour race . At the end of January, Pedro Rodríguez and Jackie Oliver won the Daytona International Speedway in their Porsche 917K. It was the second overall win for John Wyer's team that year. Also on the Sebring International Raceway won a Porsche 917. This time remained Vic Elford and Gerard Larrousse for Martini & Rossi team of Hans-Dieter Dechent successful.

In the 1000 km race at Brands Hatch , Andrea de Adamich and Henri Pescarolo in the T33 / 3-71 achieved the first overall victory for an Alfa Romeo in the history of the World Sports Car Championship. Races five, the 1000 km race in Monza , and six, the 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps , ended with further successes for the Wyer-Porsche 917K duo Pedro Rodríguez and Jackie Oliver.

Team preparations

Two weeks before the 1000 km race, the Targa Florio took place in Sicily , which ended with a one-two for Alfa Romeo. Nino Vaccarella and Toine Hezemans won the T33 / 3 ahead of their team-mates Andrea de Adamich and Gijs van Lennep . Autodelta , the Alfa Romeo team, also seemed well equipped for the race at the Nürburgring . In the week before the race, the racetrack was rented for extensive test drives for several days. Four 3-liter sports cars and a GTA were reported. Three T33 / 3s were entrusted to the driver pairings Andrea de Adamich / Henri Pescarolo , Toine Hezemans / Nino Vaccarella and Rolf Stommelen / Nanni Galli . Galli was fit again after a hand injury sustained during training for the 1000 km race in Monza. For the first time, a T33 / TT / 3 was also reported, which had a frame made of aluminum tubular profiles. The car that Carlo Facetti and Teodoro Zeccoli were supposed to drive was withdrawn before the start of the race. The two Germans Jörg Klasen and Peter Otto drove the GTA .

Race preparation at Porsche was far more problematic. As in the previous year , the two Porsche teams from Wyer and Dechent were not supposed to use the Porsche 917K, but the light and agile 908/03 . However, three cars had an accident at the Targa Florio, with one car burned out completely. For the race on the Ring, two cars had to be repaired and completely rebuilt in the factory department in Zuffenhausen in day and night shifts , as both teams wanted to use two 908/03s each. The John Wyer team relied on the regular drivers Pedro Rodríguez / Jackie Oliver and Jo Siffert / Derek Bell for the drivers. Vic Elford / Gérard Larrousse and Gijs van Lennep / Helmut Marko started for the International Martini Racing Team . A third Porsche was registered for the Martini team. The driver team of the 908/02, called the aristocratic duo by the competition, consisted of Ferfried von Hohenzollern and Leopold von Bayern . Scuderia Ferrari reported only one car , a 312PB for Jacky Ickx and Clay Regazzoni .

The race

The workout

When the first practice session began on the Friday before race Sunday, the four Porsche 908/03 were still not in the pits ready for use. The vehicles had only arrived at the track the night before and were only made ready for the race. After a night's rain, the track was still partially wet, but Rolf Stommelen drove lap times of less than 10 minutes in the Alfa Romeo. Clay Regazzoni drove the Ferrari 312PB on the now dry track, the fastest time of the day in 7: 59.800 minutes. Ferfried von Hohenzollern drove a few fast laps in the Porsche 908/02 before he hit the grass of the verge with one side of the car after the carousel section. In the following accident, the Porsche was so badly damaged that the car could not be used on race day. Jacky Ickx started from pole position and drove a time of 7: 36.100 minutes with the Ferrari 312PB on Saturday. The Ferrari 512 of Georg Loos and Franz Pesch had a gearbox failure in training. Since the team was missing a second gearbox, they started loading the car and material for return transport on Saturday evening. The Swiss Herbert Müller noticed the activity and loaned Loos his replacement gearbox. This enabled Pesch and Loos to start on Sunday.

The course of the race

The race opened on Sunday at 11 a.m. with an Indianapolis start . Jacky Ickx in the Ferrari took the lead, followed by Rolf Stommelen in the Alfa Romeo and the Porsches of Vic Elford, Jo Siffert and Gijs van Lennep. While Ickx drove up and away in front, a fierce duel for second place broke out between Stommelen and Elford. After the sixth lap, Ickx had to stop at the pits to refill the cooling water. As a result, Stommelen took the lead in front of Elford, who followed closely. After the seventh lap, Jo Siffert stopped at the pits. The engine mount was broken on both sides, causing the engine to drag on the ground. The car had to be taken out of the race and Siffert switched to Pedro Rodríguez's car. After the first routine stops, Jacky Ickx took the lead again. Nanni Galli took over the car from Stommelen and Larrousse the cockpit from Elford. On lap 14, the Stommelen / Galli-Alfa Romeo retired with engine failure. The factory Ferrari lead ended on lap 21 when Clay Regazzoni, who had since taken over the car from Ickx, had to park the 312PB with its completely overheated engine.

Elford and Larrousse won the race with a lead of almost 2 minutes on Rodríguez and Siffert's Porsches. In the last laps Helmut Marko was able to catch up on Pedro Rodríguez by more than a minute, but had to admit defeat to the Mexican by a tenth of a second when the checkered flag fell and finished third with his team-mate van Lennep.

With this success, Porsche won the one-make cup of the sports car world championship for the third time in a row.

Race of the Formula Super Vau

As a supporting event, a Formula Super Vau race over a distance of 5 laps took place on race Sunday at 9 a.m. In training, the Austrian Erich Breinsberg achieved the fastest training time in an Austro-Kaimann with 9: 07,000 minutes. Breinsberg, who set the fastest lap in the race with a time of 8: 59.600 minutes and for the first time undercut the 9-minute limit with a Formula Vee monoposto , won ahead of his team mates Christian Dietrich and Manfred Schurti .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	P 3.0	3	International Martini Racing Team	Vic Elford Gérard Larrousse	Porsche 908/03	44
2	P 3.0	1	JW Automotive Gulf Porsche	Pedro Rodríguez Jo Siffert	Porsche 908/03	44
3	P 3.0	4th	International Martini Racing Team	Gijs van Lennep Helmut Marko	Porsche 908/03	43
4th	P 3.0	11	Autodelta SpA	Andrea de Adamich Henri Pescarolo	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3	44
5	P 3.0	12	Autodelta SpA	Toine Hezemans Nino Vaccarella	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3	42
6th	S 5.0	55	Team Auto Usdau	Reinhold Joest Willi Kauhsen	Porsche 917K	40
7th	P 3.0	8th	Claude Ballot-Léna	Claude Ballot-Léna Guy Chasseuil	Porsche 908/02	40
8th	P 3.0	7th	Ernst Kraus	Ernst Kraus Dieter Basche	Porsche 908/02	40
9	S 5.0	59	Gelo Racing Team	Georg Loos Franz Pesch	Ferrari 512M	40
10	P 3.0	9	Wicky Racing Team	André Wicky Mario Cabral	Porsche 908/02	38
11	S 2.0	75	Sepp Greger	Sepp Greger Rudi Lins	Porsche 910	37
12	GT + 2.0	82	Kremer Racing	Erwin Kremer Jürgen Neuhaus	Porsche 911S	37
13	GT + 2.0	77	Porsche Club Romand	Claude Haldi Paul Keller	Porsche 911S	37
14th	GT 2.0	94	Max Moritz car dealership	Gerd Quist Dietrich Krumm	Porsche 914/6	36
15th	GT 2.0	95	E. Straehle KG	Günter Steckkönig Dieter Schmid	Porsche 914/6	36
16	GT + 2.0	88	Leo Kinnunen	Leo Kinnunen Björn Waldegård	Porsche 911S	36
17th	GT + 2.0	78	Porsche Club Romand	Pierre Greub Jean-Claude Guérie	Porsche 911S	35
18th	GT 2.0	93	Rübenach Automobile Club	Walter Simonis Jean-Claude Guérie	Porsche 914/6	34
19th	GT 2.0	96	Auto Kremer Racing Team	Franz-Josef Rieder William Scheeren	Porsche 911T	33
20th	GT 2.0	101	German Renault automobiles	Hans Schulze-Schwering Thomas Betzler	Alpine A110	33
21st	GT 2.0	108	Alexander Nolte	Werner Christmann Willi Nolte	Porsche 914/6	32
22nd	P 2.0	24	Tony Goodwin	Tony Goodwin Raymond Nash	Redex RPA	32
23	S 2.0	72	Paul Watson Race Organization	Tony Birchenhough Brian Joscelyne	Chevron B8	31
24	P 1.6	48	Kilian Tuning	Heinz Gilges Dieter Hegels	Kilian PT	31
25th	P 3.0	6th	Team Auto Usdau	Hans-Dieter Weigel Dieter Spoerry	Porsche 908/02	30th
26th	GT + 2.0	83	International Racing Club	Joachim Komusin Siegfried Müller	Ferrari Dino 246 GT	30th
27	P 1.6	49	Autodelta SpA	Jörg Klasen Peter Otto	Alfa Romeo GTA	30th
28	P 1.6	51	Jack Wheeler	Jack Wheeler Martin Davidson	Jerboa SP	29
29	P 2.0	31	Worcestershire Association	John Bamford Peter Creasey	Chevron B19	29
30th	S 2.0	74	Harald Link	Harald Link Bernd Becker	Porsche 906	28
31	P 1.6	52	Mike Garton	Mike Garton Roger Heavens	Chevron B16	23
Failed
32	S 5.0	54	Racing Team VDS	Teddy Pilette Gustave Gosselin	Lola T70 Mk.3B GT	25th
33	GT 2.0	104	Squadra Tartaruga	Ernst Seiler Peter Ettmüller	Porsche 914/6	24
34	GT 2.0	102	German Renault automobiles	Karl Lübbering Horst Klauke	Alpine A110 1600S	23
35	P 3.0	15th	Ferrari SEFAC Spa	Jacky Ickx Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari 312PB	21st
36	S 5.0	60	Herbert Mueller	Herbert Müller René Herzog	Ferrari 512M	21st
37	GT + 2.0	80	Aake Andersson	Aake Andersson Jürgen Barth	Porsche 911S	19th
38	P 2.0	36	Daren Cars	Roger Enever Clive Baker	Daren Mk.3	17th
39	P 3.0	10	Autodelta SpA	Rolf Stommelen Nanni Galli	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3	14th
40	P 2.0	27	Yves Deprez	Yves Deprez Julien Vernaeve	Chevron B16	9
41	S 5.0	61	Herbert Mueller	Heinrich Wiesendanger Cox cooker	Ferrari 512S	9
42	GT 2.0	97	Kurt Simonsen	Kurt Simonsen Roland Larsson	Porsche 911T	8th
43	P 3.0	2	JW Automotive Gulf Porsche	Jo Siffert Derek Bell	Porsche 908/03	7th
44	P 2.0	32	Daren Cars	Charles Graemiger Peter Hanson	Daren Mk.3	7th
45	P 2.0	37	Martin Racing Development	Brian Martin Terry Croker	Martin BM8	5
46	P 2.0	23	Speed ​​Sport Motobooks	Martin Ridehalgh Mike Garton	Dulon LD11P	4th
47	P 1.6	53	Minilite Ltd.	Guy Edwards Mike Franey	Lola T212	2
48	P 3.0	18th	Rheydter Club	Heinz Behr Hans Heyer	LBS 3	1
49	GT 2.0	100	German Renault automobiles	Dieter Kern Willi Sommer	Alpine A110 1600S	1
50	P 2.0	38	Martin Racing Development	Edward Negus Peter Gaydon	Martin BM8	1
51	P 1.6	50	Peter Richardson	Peter Richardson Maynard Soares	Daren Mk.2	1
Not started
52	P 3.0	5	International Martini Racing Team	Ferfried von Hohenzollern Leopold of Bavaria .	Porsche 908/02	1
53	P 3.0	14th	Autodelta SpA	Carlo Facetti Teodoro Zeccoli	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3	2
54	GT + 2.0	85	Comet Saemerein	Ferdi Bökmann Rolf Kienen	Porsche 911S	3
55	GT 2.0	106	GELO racing team	Robert Huhn Helmut Gall Franz Pesch	Porsche 911S	4th
56	P 3.0	12T	Autodelta SpA	Toine Hezemans Nino Vaccarella	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3	5
57	S 5.0	62T	Herbert Mueller		Ferrari 512M	6th

¹ Accident during training ² withdrawn ³ not started ⁴ not started ⁵ training car ⁶ training car

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
58	P 3.0	16	Lenham	Roger Hurst Ray Calcutt	Lenham P71
59	P 3.0	17th	Automobiles Ligier	Guy Ligier Patrick Depailler	Ligier JS2
60	P 3.0	19th	Alexander Nolte	Alexander Nolte	Porsche 908
61	P 2.0	25th	Esmeralda	Georges Dumoing Gérard Cerruti	Lola T212
62	P 2.0	26th	Alfa Romeo Germany	Anton Fischhaber	Alfa Romeo T33 / 2
63	P 2.0	28	Snakespeed	David Weir Alain de Cadenet	Lola T210
64	P 2.0	29	André Wicky Racing Team	Walter Brun Peter Mattli	Porsche 907
65	P 2.0	30th	Steinmetz automotive technology	Arthur Blank Bob Wollek	Chevron B19
66	P 2.0	33	Jack Wheeler	Jack Wheeler Martin Davidson	Daren Mk.3
67	P 2.0	34	WRA engineering	George Whitehead Andrew Mylius	Gropa CMC
68	P 2.0	35	Camel Filters Team Huron	Shaun Jackson Syd Fox	Huron 4A
69	P 2.0	36	Camel Filters Team Huron	Roger Enever Clive Baker	Huron 4A
70	P 2.0	41	Jolly Club Switzerland	Silvio Moser Antonio Nicodemi	Lola T212
71	P 2.0	42	Scuderia Filipinetti	Jo Bonnier Ronnie Peterson	Lola T212
72	P 2.0	43	Oldenkott Tobacco and Pipes Racing	Clemens Schickentanz	Chevron B19
73	P 2.0	44	Willie Tuckett	Willie Tuckett Andrew Fletcher	Chevron B16
74	S 5.0	56	International Martini Racing Team	Gijs van Lennep Rudi Lins	Porsche 917
75	S 5.0	57	Scuderia Filipinetti	Mike Parkes Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Ferrari 512M
76	S 5.0	58	Scuderia Filipinetti	Corrado Manfredini Giancarlo Gagliardi	Ferrari 512M
77	S 2.0	66	Mike Garton	Mike Garton Roger Heavens	Chevron B16
78	S 2.0	67	HASAG upholstered furniture	Heinz Derflinger Dieter Soucek	Chevron B16
79	S 2.0	68	Graham Lynch	Graham Lynch Mike Gribben	Chevron B8
80	S 2.0	69	Mike Walton	Mike Walton Paul Tuckle	Porsche 910
81	S 2.0	70	John Raffo	John Raffo Roy Seddon	Chevron B8
82	S 2.0	71	Richard Knight	Richard Knight Mike Knight	Chevron B8
83	S 2.0	76	Red Rose Racing	Peter Humble Digby Martland	Chevron B19
84	GT + 2.0	79	Max Moritz car dealership	Rolf Göring Klaus Utz	Porsche 911S
85	GT + 2.0	81	Paul-Ernst Straehle	Roland Bauer	Porsche 911S
86	GT + 2.0	84	Wicky Racing Team	Jean Selz Jacques Cochet	Porsche 911S
87	GT + 2.0	86	Rally Community Ulm	Klaus Rank	Porsche 911S
88	GT + 2.0	87	Peter Kersten	Clemens Schickentanz	Porsche 911S
89	GT + 2.0	87	Matter	Reinhardt Stenzel Gerold Pankl	Porsche 911S
90	GT 2.0	98	Robert Chicken	Robert Chicken	Porsche 914/6
91	GT 2.0	99	Porsche Club Romand	Bernard Chenevière	Porsche 914/6
92	GT 2.0	103	Keiper-Recaro Racing Team	Eckhard Schimpf Karlhorst Müller	Porsche 914/6
93	GT 2.0	105	Helmut Hinse	Helmut Hinse	Porsche 911T

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
P 3.0	Vic Elford	Gérard Larrousse	Porsche 908/03	Overall victory
P 2.0	Tony Goodwin	Raymond Nash	Redex RPA	Rank 22
P 1.6	Heinz Gilges	Dieter Hegels	Kilian PT	Rank 24
S 5.0	Reinhold Joest	Willy Kauhsen	Porsche 917K	Rank 6
S 2.0	Sepp Greger	Rudi Lins	Porsche 910	Rank 11
GT + 2.0	Erwin Kremer	Jürgen Neuhaus	Porsche 911S	Rank 12
GT 2.0	Gerd Quist	Dietrich Krumm	Porsche 914/6	Rank 14

Racing data

• Registered: 93
• Started: 51
• Rated: 31
• Race classes: 7
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 22.835 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 51: 49.300 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 44
• Total distance of the winning team: 1004.740 km
• Winner's average: 171.349 km / h
• Pole position: Jacky Ickx - Ferrari 312PB (# 15) - 7: 36.100 = 180.237 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jacky Ickx - Ferrari 312PB (# 15) - 7: 40.800 = 178.398 km / h
• Racing series: Round 8 of the 1971 World Sports Car Championship

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 1971  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Race report
• Race results at WSPR Racing

Predecessor race Targa Florio 1971

Sports car world championship

Succession race 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans