300 km race on the Nürburgring in 1976

The Porsche 936 (left row in front in the direction of travel) made its racing debut

The 300 km race on the Nürburgring in 1976 , also XI. ADAC Goodyear 300, World Championship Sports Cars, Nürburgring Nordschleife , took place on April 4th on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgrings and was the third round of the sports car world championship of this year.

The race

For 1976 the FIA announced, in addition to the existing brand world championship, in which Group 5 cars started, a sports car world championship for Group 6 sports cars. Porsche originally planned to compete in the brand world championship only with the Porsche 935 . But the uncertainty about a future merger of the two racing series and the prestige of the supposedly more difficult sports car world championship prompted Porsche to develop a Group 6 car. Since this decision was made very late in 1975, there was little time left to develop the Porsche 936 .

Due to the new regulations, the 6-hour race in Vallelunga took place on the same day , in which the two Porsche works drivers Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass drove the Porsche 935. That is why the former works driver Rolf Stommelen returned to Porsche for this race. In its first race, he drove the 936, four minutes behind the winner Reinhold Joest in the Porsche 908/4, in fifth place in the overall standings.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	5	Joest Racing	Reinhold Joest	Porsche 908/4 Turbo	11
2	GT + 3.0	51	Tebernum Racing Team Georg Loos KG	Toine Hezemans	Porsche 934	11
3	2.0	40	Helmut Bross	Helmut Bross	Lola T294	11
4th	GT + 3.0	53	Jägermeister Max Moritz Team	Helmut Kelleners	Porsche 934	11
5	S 3.0	1	Martini Racing Porsche System	Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 936	11
6th	S 2.0	49	Stanislao Sterzel	Stanislao Sterzel	March 75S	11
7th	GT + 3.0	52	Tebernum Racing Team Georg Loos KG	Tim donation	Porsche 934	11
8th	GT + 3.0	54	Jägermeister Max Moritz Team	Reinhardt Stenzel	Porsche 934	11
9	GT + 3.0	56	Hartwig Bertrams	Hartwig Bertrams	Porsche 934	11
10	S 5.0	11	Vergölst racing team	Peter Hoffmann	McLaren M8F	11
11	GT + 3.0	55	Valvoline Germany	Eberhard Sindel	Porsche 934	10
12	S 2.0	44	Norbert Dombrowski	Norbert Dombrowski	Rex SP1	10
13	S 3.0	10	Sports Car Team of Austria	Kurt Hild	KMW SP30	10
14th	S 2.0	37	Chandler Ibec International Racing with DRA	Richard Down Ian Harrower	Lola T294S	10
Not classified
15th	S 2.0	39	Iain McLaren	Iain McLaren	Chevron B26	6th
Failed
16	S 3.0	4th	The Ultramar March	Guy Edwards	March 76S	8th
17th	S 2.0	38	Chandler Ibec International Racing with DRA	Tony Birchenhough Ian Bracey	Lola T294S	8th
18th	S 2.0	36	Mogil Motors Ltd.	Tony Charnell	Chevron B31	7th
19th	S 2.0	47	Ralf Walter	Ralf Walter	TOJ SC03	5
20th	S 3.0	9	Sports Car Team of Austria	Günther Egermann	KMW SP30	1
21st	S 3.0	2	Renault Sport	Patrick Depailler	Alpine-Renault A442	1
22nd	S 3.0	2	Renault Sport	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Alpine-Renault A442	1
Not started
23	S 3.0	7th	John Blanckley	Manrico Zanuso Martin Raymond	Chevron B31	1
24	S 3.0	8th	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Marsilio Pasotti Marco Capoferri	Lola T380	2
25th	S 2.0	34	Robin Smith	Robin Smith	Chevron B26	3
Not qualified
26th	S 3.0	12	URD racing car and VW Maier	Hubert Schmidt	URD 676	4th
27	S 3.0	13	Brothers German RMT Vienna	Lothar Schörg	German Porsche 908 Special	5

¹ Engine damage during training ² Misfiring during training ³ Accident during training ⁴ not qualified ⁵ 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 for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
28	S 3.0	6th	Joest Racing	Jürgen Barth Horst Godel	Porsche 908/3
29	S 3.0	14th	Boeri-Sports-Helmets-Rss.	Kurt Hild	TOJ SC301
30th	S 3.0	15th	Team Warsteiner RTS	Heinz Schulthess	Lola T284
31	S 3.0	16	Team Warsteiner RTS	François Migault	TOJ SC301
32	S 3.0	17th	Auto Delta		Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12
33	S 2.0	31	PP Sauber Racing Switzerland	Herbert Mueller	Clean C5
34	S 2.0	32	The Ultramar March	John Lepp Guy Edwards	March 75S
35	S 2.0	33	Team Warsteiner-Eurorace	Jörg Obermoser	TOJ SC03
36	S 2.0	35	Lester Ray	Richard Jenvey	Vogue SP2
37	S 2.0	39	Peter Smith	Peter Smith John Turner	Chevron B31
38	S 2.0	41	PP Sauber Racing Switzerland	Rodolfo Cescato	Clean C5
39	S 2.0	42	Societe Roc	François Sérvanin	Chevron B36
40	S 2.0	43	Ermanno Pettiti	Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA4
41	S 2.0	45	Siegfried Rieger	Siegfried Rieger	Chevron
42	S 2.0	46	Michael Bischoff	Michael Bischoff	Abarth-Osella PA2
43	S 2.0	48	Giancarlo Naddeo	Giancarlo Naddeo	Alpine A441
44	GT + 3.0	57	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Marsilio Pasotti Marco Capoferri	Porsche 934

Class winner

class	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 5.0	Peter Hoffmann	McLaren M8F	Rank 10
S 3.0	Reinhold Joest	Porsche 908/4	Overall victory
S 2.0	Helmut Bross	Lola T294	Rank 3
GT + 3.0	Toine Hezemans	Porsche 934	Rank 2

Racing data

• Registered: 44
• Started: 22
• Valued: 14
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: rain
• Route length: 22.835 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 1:44: 15,800 hours
• Overall rounds of the winning team: 11
• Total distance of the winning team: 251.185 km
• Winner's average: 144.548 km / h
• Pole position: Patrick Depailler - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 2) - 7: 16.900 = 188.507 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Rolf Stommelen - Porsche 936 (# 1) - 9: 11.600 = 149.032 km / h
• Racing series: 3rd round of the sports car world championship in 1976

literature

• 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

Previous race 6 Hours of Vallelunga 1976

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 4-hour Monza race in 1976