Bill Wuesthoff

Bill Wuesthoff's Elva Mk7

William "Bill" Wuesthoff is a former American car racing driver .

Career

Bill Wuesthoff was active as a sports car driver in the 1950s and 1960s . Wuesthoff was a committed amateur racing driver who was able to celebrate some successes. In 1964 he finished second in the US Road Racing Championship behind Jim Hall . His only start in Europe was taking part in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in 1958 , where he finished 28th in the final ranking in a Porsche 356 A Speedster . His best international result was, in addition to third place in the 12-hour race at Sebring in 1962, the overall victory in the 500 km race in Bridgehampton in 1964 . Wuesthoff won the race together with Joe Buzzetta in a Porsche 904 GTS .

statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1960	Camoradi USA	Chevrolet Corvette	Fred Gamble	Jim Jeffords	Rank 26
1961	Porsche Car Import	Porsche 718 RS 60	Augie Pabst		failure	Main seal leak
1962	Porsche imports	Porsche 718 RS 60	Frank Rand	Bruce Jennings	3rd place and class win
1964	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo TZ	Chuck Dietrich		failure	Gearbox damage

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
1958	William Wilbourne	Porsche 356	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						25th
1960	Camoradi Racing	Chevrolet Corvette	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				26th
1961	Porsche Car	Porsche 718	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			DNF
1962	Porsche imports	Porsche 718	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
					3
1964	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus Ed Weschler	Alfa Romeo TZ Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF																1

literature

• Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .

Web links

Commons : Bill Wuesthoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bill Wuesthoff at Racing Sports Cars
• About Bill Wuesthoff