Eberhard Mahle

Eberhard Mahle (born January 7, 1933 in Stuttgart ) is a former German automobile racing driver .

Life

Eberhard Mahle, called Ebs , is the son of Ernst Mahle (engineer) , co-founder and co-owner of today's Mahle GmbH . He is said to have taken his parents' car on an excursion in Vorarlberg as early as the age of eleven . At the age of 21 and reaching the age of majority, Mahle competed in the Stuttgart Solitude Rally in 1954 in a DKW F91 and won the class for series touring cars up to 1000 cc.

In 1958 Mahle won the German GT Championship in an Alfa Romeo and in 1959 he finished second in the Targa Florio with a Porsche 550 . Also in 1959 he won the ONS Bergmeister Cup for touring cars on a Volvo PV544 . From 1960, Eberhard Mahle was, alongside Eugen Böhringer and Walter Schock, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz rally factory team . In 1966 he won the European Hill Climb Championship with a Porsche 911 .

In 1968, Mahle said goodbye to racing in order to focus on managing the family business. Today he lives in Leonberg and regularly takes part in historical motorsport events as a guest. Eberhard Mahle is an advisory board member of the Mahle Foundation .

Awards

• 1967 Silver bay leaf

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
1957	Eberhard Mahle	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						33
1959	Porsche auto wax	Porsche 550 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV Zagato	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				2	DNF
1961	Siegfried Günther	Porsche 356	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					7th
1962	Abarth Paul-Ernst Straehle	Fiat-Abarth 1000 Porsche 356	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
								DNF	9		DNF			1
1963	Abarth	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero Fiat-Abarth 1000	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
									DNF		8th
1966	Eberhard Mahle	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
													10
1967	Abarth	Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
										DNF

Web links

• Portrait on carsablanca.de
• Portrait for the 80th birthday in 2013 on imschalensitz.de
• Portrait for the 75th birthday on herrenzimmer.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.szbz.de/nachrichten/artikel/detail/der-schnelle-ebs-und-seine-tuefteleien-5-1-2013/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.berg-meisterschaft.de/?page_id=814
4. ↑ http://www.mahle-stiftung.de/organisation/