Dieter Basche

Dieter Basche (born July 31, 1936 ) is a graduate engineer, former German racing driver and former head of Audi motorsport .

Career

Racing driver

Dieter Basche started his racing career in touring car racing in the late 1960s. At the same time he was head of the BMW sports department and involved in the development of the Formula 2 racing cars. He brought the experience gained as a racing driver directly to the development of BMW racing vehicles.

He was accepted into the Formula 2 works team through several successful appearances from 1966 in the German Automobile Circuit Championship with a BMW 1800 TI and BMW 2000 TI. In 1970 he drove Hubert Hahne's BMW F2 70/3 to 7th place at the Baden-Württemberg Grand Prix and also competed in the Munich-Neubiberg airfield race.

Basche celebrated his greatest successes as a racing driver in the German Racing Championship , where he achieved 3rd place in the overall standings in 1972 and 1973 on a BMW 2002 TI .

Audi Sport

In 1979 Basche retired as a racing driver and initially went to Audi as an engineer, where he later became head of technology. There he worked as a chassis engineer in the development of the Audi S1 , with which Walter Röhrl won the 1985 San Remo Rally . Later, as Head of Audi Technology and Motorsport, he was responsible for the development of the Audi V8 quattro DTM , with which Hans-Joachim Stuck became DTM champions in 1990 and Frank Biela a year later .

His successor as Head of Audi Motorsport was taken over by Wolfgang Ullrich in 1993 .

statistics

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
1963	Dieter Basche	Steyr-Puch 650	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
											71
1968	Caltex Racing	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
								23
1969	Nikolaus Killenberg Chevron Germany Association of South German Car Sportsmen	Chevron B8 Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						DNF			DNF			9
1970	Gesipa Racing	Porsche 908	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
									11
1971	Ernst Kraus	Porsche 908	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										8th
1972	Ecurie Bonnier	Lola T290	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										DNF
1973	Jolly Club	AMS 273	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
									DNF
1974	Obermoser Racing	Toj SS02	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
					DNF

Web links

• Dieter Basche at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dunlop - website: Dieter Basche - Bayern athlete. (No longer available online.) At: www.dunlop.eu , formerly in the original ; accessed on August 31, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
2. ↑ John-W. - Website: BMW Formula 2 - 1970. (No longer available online.) At: www.john-w.de , archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; accessed on August 31, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Driver database - website: Dieter Basche. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed August 31, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Rallye-Wahn.de - website: 100 years of Audi. On: www.rallye-wahn.de , accessed on August 31, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Norisring.de - Internet site: fun and excitement with celebrities at the “Audi Heroes Cup”. From: www.norisring.de , June 29, 2008, accessed on August 31, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Stattzeitung-plus - website: DTM Champions in the Audi Forum. (No longer available online.) At: www.stattzeitung-plus.in , August 14, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 31, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )