Ben Pon junior

Ben Pon

Nation:	Netherlands
Automobile world championship
First start:	1962 Dutch Grand Prix
Last start:	1962 Dutch Grand Prix
Constructors
1962 Ecurie Maarsbergen
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Bernardus Marinus "Ben" Pon junior (born December 9, 1936 in Leiden , grew up in Amersfoort , † September 30, 2019 ) was a Dutch businessman , former automobile racing driver and Olympic competitor in clay pigeon shooting .

Career

Pon is a son of the Dutch car dealer Ben Pon senior , who introduced the Volkswagen to the USA in 1949 and invented the VW minibus . The young Pon began racing on the Zandvoort circuit in the 1950s - initially in a VW Beetle with a Porsche Carrera engine.

Between 1961 (debut at the Nürburgring ) and 1967 he drove races for Porsche and took part in the Le Mans 24-hour race six times . In the automobile world championship Pon was not successful: In his first and only start (also with a Porsche) in 1962 at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands for the private team Écurie Maarsbergen he had an accident in the second lap. His car was carried out of the Scheivlak curve and overturned several times. Pon was thrown from the vehicle, but remained almost uninjured. However, he vowed never to race in a single-seater again.

Pon continued to work for Porsche and helped build the Racing Team Holland and the Dutch Racing Team , both of which were very successful. In 1968 Pon drove his last two races in the World Sportscar Championship in a Porsche 910 .

As an athlete, Ben Pon was seen again at the Olympic Games : In Munich he competed in clay pigeon shooting for the Netherlands, but only finished 31st with 187 hits.

He had also taken over his father's company; In 1980 he founded Pon Holdings , a Dutch group of companies, among other things in the field of trade and rental of vehicles. Your seat is Almere . At the beginning of 2009 it had around 11,000 employees.

By 1981, Pon was one of four directors of Pon Holdings . In 1992 he founded his own winery, in 1997 he bought Danny McCallum Safaris , a safari company from Tanzania . In Carmel Valley ( California , USA ) he had the Bernardus Lodge built, a luxury hotel that opened in 1999. Pon was the owner of the Bernardus Winery in Carmel and lived alternately there, in Amersfoort and in Somerset ( England ).

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1962	Ecurie Maarsbergen	Porsche 787	Porsche 1.5 F4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1962
	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1961	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356 B Abarth GTL	Herbert Linge	Rank 10 and class win
1962	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356 B Abarth	Carel Godin de Beaufort	failure	ignition
1963	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356 B 2000 GS GT	Heinz Schiller	failure	Engine failure
1964	Racing Team Holland	Porsche 904/4 GTS	Hank van Zalinge	Rank 8
1965	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 904/4 GTS	Robert Buchet	failure	Oil leak
1967	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 906K Carrera 6	Vic Elford	Rank 7 and class win

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1964	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356 B 2000 GS GT	Joe Buzzetta	Rank 10 and class win
1965	Porsche Automobile Co.	Porsche 904 GTS	Joe Buzzetta	Rank 6

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1961	Ben Pon Porsche	Porsche 356	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					DNF	10
1962	Ben Pon Porsche	Porsche 356	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									DNF	DNF			10				8th
1963	Porsche	Porsche 356	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
									4th			DNF
1964	Porsche Racing Team Holland Ben Pon	Porsche 356 Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				10			8th		3		8th	7th						2				8th
1965	Porsche Racing Team Holland Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
				6th			4th			3	25th			DNF
1966	Racing Team Holland	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
															DNF
1967	Racing Team Holland Sten Axelsson Porsche Tony Dean	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
						DNF		DNF	7th			8th
1968	Ben Pon	Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					DNF	DNF

Web links

Commons : Ben Pon junior  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ben Pons racing career and biography
• Ben Pon junior in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )