1000 km race on the Nürburgring 1976

The winning car model; BMW 3.5 CSL

Porsche 935 , here with the painting of the works car. Manfred Schurti and Rolf Stommelen were disqualified in the race after using outside help

The 22nd 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also Int. XXII ADAC 1000 km race, Nürburgring Nordschleife , took place on May 30, 1976 on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring and was the seventh round of the sports car world championship of that year.

Before the race

For the 22nd time since 1953 , the elite of sports car racing met at the Nürburgring to start the 1000 km race . For years, the Nordschleife has been criticized for being too dangerous for current motorsport. The most heated discussion in the Formula 1 world was about the lack of safety equipment on the track. A few weeks after the 1000 km race, the long history of Formula 1 races on the Nordschleife ended. The final impetus for this came from Niki Lauda's serious accident at the German Grand Prix .

Before the race, there was criticism of the FIA's new Group 5 regulations , mainly expressed by specialist journalists . The group production cars were too similar to the touring cars that contested the 6-hour race of the European Touring Car Championship on the Nordschleife . This race was held at the beginning of July and ended with the overall victory of Hughes de Fierlant , Gunnar Nilsson and Claude de Wael in the Belgian Luigi Racing BMW 3.0 CSL . You missed the appearance of the sports car. The sports cars of the new Group 6 were also present at the Nürburgring, but in a separate event, which was held in May as a 300 km race and won by Reinhold Joest in a Porsche 908/03 .

The overall dwindling interest in sports car racing was also favored by the lack of current Formula 1 drivers. The few drivers from this monoposto series who, like Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass , competed in Formula 1 and sports car races in parallel, could not start because the Monaco Grand Prix was taking place on the same weekend . For the first time in the history of the sports car world championship, the 1000 km race collided with a Formula 1 world championship run.

The race

As in the previous Group 5 races, there was also a duel between Porsche and BMW at the Nürburgring . The two brands made up the majority of the starters. The only plant - Porsche 935 controlled Rolf Stommelen and the new factory driver Manfred Schurti . Porsche had interpreted the new regulations broadly and provided the 935 with a new flat front section and modified the rear wing. The car thus deviated greatly from the street version of the Porsche 911 . BMW decided not to use the 3.0 CSL Turbo works car. BMW Motorsport Director Jochen Neerpasch : We drove tests at the Nürburgring and discovered that our power transmission units were no longer able to cope with the almost doubled output. On a circuit like the Nürburgring, this becomes noticeable much faster and more clearly than on any other racetrack. As much as we would have loved to drive here, it should also be understandable that we cannot start a race with a works car with the absolute certainty that we will be out after half an hour.

The training was dominated by the Porsche racing cars. The best in qualification training was Manfred Schurti in the works 935, with a very fast lap time of 7: 37.700 minutes for a silhouette vehicle. Behind them were the Kremer Porsche from Bob Wollek and Hans Heyer and the two 934/5 from Gijs van Lennep / Hartwig Bertrams and Toine Hezemans / Tim Schenken .

At the beginning of the race the Porsche cars were in the lead, but due to the higher fuel consumption they came to the pits for the first refueling on lap eight. In the following laps, the two leading cars retired. Schurti stopped with a defective distributor cap at the airfield section. Since no problem was found after in-depth radio communication, the Porsche race management sent a mechanic to the vehicle with spare parts to repair the damage. Schurti was then able to start again. However, the race management immediately disqualified the car due to the use of outside help. Hans Heyer's Porsche was also taken out of the race after being disqualified. He had also called on outside help after damage to the half-wave.

After a two-thirds race distance, three BMWs were in the lead, and they were able to set faster lap times than the Porsche. However, technical problems also decimated the top vehicles at BMW. First, the second 3.5 CSL with Hughes de Fierlandt at the wheel in the carousel failed with a damaged suspension. Then with three laps to go, the leader John Fitzpatrick in the car with the number 8 stopped an engine failure at Hatzenbach. In the end, Albrecht Krebs and Dieter Quester won the Schnitzer -BMW with a clear lead over the best Porsche, driven by Toine Hezemans and Tim Schenken.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis	Round
1	Size 5 + 3.0	7th	Memphis Team International BMW Schnitzer	Albrecht Krebs Dieter Quester	BMW 3.5 CSL	47
2	Size 5 + 3.0	6th	Gelo Racing Team	Toine Hezemans Tim Schenken	Porsche 934/5	47
3	GT + 3.0	25th	Jägermeister Max Moritz Team	Helmut Kellener's Reinhardt Stenzel Derek Bell	Porsche 934	46
4th	Size 5 + 3.0	5	GVEA	Claude Haldi Markus Hotz	Porsche 934/5	46
5	Size 5 + 3.0	3	Kannacher GT Racing	Gijs van Lennep Hartwig Bertrams	Porsche 934/5	45
6th	GT + 3.0	26th	Valvoline Germany	Helmut Bross Eberhard Sindel	Porsche 934	44
7th	Size 5 3.0	33	Jägermeister Max Moritz Team	Eckhard Schimpf Edgar Dören	Porsche Carrera RSR	44
8th	Size 5 3.0	32	Joseph Brambring	Jürgen Neuhaus Jürgen Barth	Porsche Carrera RSR	44
9	Size 5 3.0	35	Heinzmann-Rennfeuerschutz-Racing-Team	Herbert Asselborn Karl-Josef Römer	Porsche Carrera RSR	44
10	GT + 3.0	24	Jägermeister Max Moritz Team	Derek Bell Günter Steckkönig Reinhardt Stenzel Helmut Kelleners	Porsche 934	44
11	Size 5 + 3.0	24	Hermetite Racing International	John Fitzpatrick Tom Walkinshaw	BMW 3.5 CSL	43
12	T / GT 3.0	43	Scuderia Basilea	Peter Zbinden Edi Kofel	Porsche Carrera RS	43
13	Size 5 2.0	56	Memphis Team International BMW Schnitzer	Jörg Denzel Norbert Neumann	BMW 2002 TII	43
14th	T / GT 3.0	41	Heinzmann-Rennfeuerschutz-Racing-Team	Georg Freiberger Franz Konrad	Porsche Carrera RS	42
15th	T / GT 3.0	44	Dieter Chimney	Dieter Schornstein Götz from Tschirnhaus	Porsche Carrera RS	42
16	GT + 3.0	28	Klaus Drees	Klaus Drees Wolfgang Kauwertz	Porsche 934	41
17th	Size 5 + 3.0	11	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Girolamo Capra Gabriele Gottifredi Ruggero Parpinelli	Porsche 934	41
18th	T / GT 3.0	42	Anton Fischhaber	Anton Fischhaber Klaus Austria	Porsche Carrera RS	40
19th	GT + 3.0	27	Automobile Club 1927 Mayen eV in the ADAC	Franz-Josef Rieder Horst Hoier	Porsche 934	40
20th	T 2.0	64	Valvoline Germany Auto-Budde-Racing	Rainer Zweibäumer Peter Ernst	BMW 2002 TI	39
21st	Size 5 3.0	36	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Silvano Frisori Alessandro Moncini	Porsche Carrera RSR	39
22nd	Size 5 + 3.0	14th	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Maurizio Micangeli Carlo Pietromarchi	De Tomaso Pantera	38
23	Size 5 2.0	55	Alpina-Faltz-Essen	Peter Kuhlmann Wolfgang Gunetsreiner	BMW 2002 TI	38
24	T 2.0	63	Franz Prentzel	Wolfgang Dimmendaal Franz Prentzel	BMW 2002 TI	38
25th	T / GT 3.0	47	VSA Munich	Kurt Auer Norbert Auer	Opel Commodore GS / E	37
26th	T 2.0	65	Team Europa furniture	Fritz Kossak Josef Stockhausen	BMW 2002 TI	37
27	T 2.0	70	Hagen Arlt	Klaus Bieler Hagen Arlt	VW Scirocco	34
Disqualified
28	Size 5 + 3.0	2	Vaillant Kremer team	Bob Wollek Hans Heyer	Porsche 935	13
29	Size 5 + 3.0	1	Martini Racing Porsche System	Rolf Stommelen Manfred Schurti	Porsche 935	9
Failed
30th	GT + 3.0	23	Egon Evertz KG Sollingen	Lella Lombardi Heinz Martin Egon Evertz	Porsche 934	29
31	Size 5 + 3.0	9	Alpina-Faltz-Essen	Alain Peltier Harald Grohs Hughes de Fierlant	BMW 3.5 CSL	27
32	Size 5 2.0	52	Castrol team Zakspeed	Martino Finotto Umberto Grano	Ford Escort RS 2000 BDG	23
33	T / GT 3.0	48	KWS Autotechnik team	Helmut Döring Rudolf Dötsch	Ford Capri RS 3000	21st
34	T 2.0	61	Alpina-Faltz-Essen	Peter Ochs Heinz Heinse	BMW 2002 TI	21st
35	T 2.0	72	Dipl.-G. Oettinger	Manfred Mohr Rüdiger Dahlhäuser	VW Scirocco	21st
36	T 2.0	62	Dieter Hegels	Dieter Hegel's Rolf Rummel	BMW 2002 TI	20th
37	Size 5 + 3.0	15th	Graziano Cancian	Graziano Cancian Manfred Verkühlen Friedhelm Theissen	BMW 3.5 CSL	14th
38	Size 5 3.0	34	Team Västkuststugan Sweden	Kurt Simonsen Roland Larsson Kenneth Leim	Porsche Carrera RSR	13
39	Size 5 + 3.0	4th	Egon Evertz KG Sollingen	Leo Kinnunen Egon Evertz	Porsche 934/5	12
40	T 2.0	67	KWS Autotechnik team	Hartmut Bauer Dieter Willke	Ford Escort RS 2000	9
41	Size 5 2.0	51	Castrol team Zakspeed	Siegfried Müller junior Klaus Ludwig Peter Hennige Siegfried Müller senior	Ford Escort RS 2000 BDG	3
42	T / GT 3.0	46	Hahn-Sportwagen GmbH	Klaus Utz Dietrich Krumm	Porsche Carrera RS	2
43	Size 5 + 3.0	10	NAC Hamburg	Manrico Zanuso Richard leather	Porsche 934	1
44	GT + 3.0	22nd	Tebernum Racing Georg Loos KG	Clemens Schickentanz Herbert Müller	Porsche 934	1
Not started
45	T 2.0	71	Peter Valder	Peter Valder	VW Golf LS	1
Not qualified
46	T 2.0	66	Automobile Club 1927 Mayen eV in the ADAC	Kurt Hens Jürgen Wirtgen	BMW 2002 TI	2
47	T 2.0	68	Heinz Schaltinat	Rudolf Strobl Heinz Schaltinat	Alfa Romeo GTV	3

¹ not started ² not qualified ³ not qualified

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.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
48	Size 5 + 3.0	6th	BMW Motorsport GmbH	Brian Redman David Hobbs	BMW 3.0 CSL Turbo
49	Size 5 + 3.0	12	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Silvano Frisori Alessandro Moncini Girolamo Capra	Porsche 934
50	GT + 3.0	21st	Tebernum Racing Georg Loos KG	Tim Gift Toine Hezemans	Porsche 934
51	Size 5 3.0	31	Tebernum Racing Georg Loos KG	Howden Ganley Herbert Mueller	Porsche Carrera RSR
52	T / GT 3.0	45	Automobilclub Bad Honnef eV	Matthias Lkörper Kurt Beise	Porsche Carrera RSR
53	Size 5 2.0	53	Toyota AG Switzerland	Paul Keller Ove Andersson Walter Frey	Toyota Corolla
54	Size 5 2.0	54	Toyota AG Switzerland	Friedrich Straumann Markus Hotz Walter Frey	Toyota Corolla
55	T 2.0	69	Spit tuning	Wolfgang Wolf Siegfried Spiess	VW Scirocco
56	T 2.0	73	Dipl.-G. Oettinger		VW Scirocco
57	T 2.0	74	Heinz Scheidtsteger	Heinz Scheidtsteger Peter Henschel	Ford Escort

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
Size 5 + 3.0	Albrecht Krebs	Dieter Quester		BMW 3.5 CSL	Overall victory
Size 5 3.0	Eckhard Schimpf	Edgar Dören		Porsche Carrera RSR	Rank 7
Size 5 2.0	Jörg Denzel	Norbert Neumann		BMW 2002 TII	Rank 13
GT + 3.0	Helmut Kelleners	Reinhardt Stenzel	Derek Bell	Porsche 934	Rank 3
T / GT 3.0	Peter Zbinden	Edi Kofel		Porsche Carrera RS	Rank 12
T 2.0	Rainer Zweibäumer	Peter Ernst		BMW 2002 TI	Rank 20

Racing data

• Registered: 57
• Started: 44
• Valued: 27
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 22.835 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6: 38: 20,600 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 47
• Total distance of the winning team: 1073.245 km
• Winner's average: 161.656 km / h
• Pole position: Manfred Schurti - Porsche 935 (# 1) - 7: 37.700 = 179.842 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Rolf Stommelen - Porsche 935 (# 1) - 8: 02.700 = 170.305 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the sports car world championship in 1976

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

• Race results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Race on the Nürburgring 1976
2. ↑ 6-hour race on the Nürburgring 1976
3. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. , Page 154

Previous race 500 km from Imola 1976

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race from Zeltweg 1976