Ernst Furtmayr

Ernst Furtmayr (born September 20, 1938 ) is a former German automobile racing driver .

Career

Furtmayr won the national mountain championship in two countries, Germany in 1961 and Austria in 1963.

In 1966 Furtmayr won the 500 km race on the Nürburgring in a Fiat Abarth 1300 OT in 3: 39: 17.300 hours; this corresponds to a speed of 137.3 km / h. At the 1000 km from Monza that same year, he and Anton Fischhaber and Giancarlo Baghetti took 14th place overall and 1st place for prototypes up to 1.3 liters, as well as 14th place overall and 1st place for sports cars up to 1.3 liters at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring ; Co-pilots were Johannes Ortner , Kurt Ahrens and Wolf-Dieter Mantzel .

In 1968 and 1969 he won the European Hill Climb Championship for touring cars on a Schnitzer - BMW 2002Ti and repeated this success in 1970 in a BMW 2800 CS prepared by Schnitzer .

In 1972 he took a break, but began again in 1993 to drive circuit races, mainly within the VLN . After an overall victory in Group N in a BMW M3 E36, the highlight was fourth place overall in the 1996 Nürburgring 24-hour race . He ended his career a second time with the 1999 24-hour race.

Ernst Furtmayr lives in the Munich area and is the owner of Furtmayr Schweißtechnik Handels-GmbH.

vehicles

Ernst Furtmayr moved a large number of vehicles right up to Group 7 sports prototypes . He was successful in touring cars with the following makes:

• Abarth
• Alfa Romeo Sprint Veloce
• BMW , various works cars and also models used by tuners

statistics

Results of the German hill climb championship 1961, GT up to 1300 cm³

route	vehicle	placement	time	average
Rossfeld	Alfa Romeo	Rank 1	8: 11.8 min	87.8 km / h
Schauinsland	Alfa Romeo	Rank 2	7: 58.0 min	84.3 km / h
Schorndorf	Alfa Romeo	Rank 1	4: 08.8 min	86.9 km / h

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
1962	Karl Foitek Ernst Furtmayr	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									DNF								15th
1963	Ernst Furtmayr	Alfa Romeo Giulia	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
											30th
1964	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus Ernst Furtmayr Scuderia Lufthansa Hans-Dieter Dechent	Alfa Romeo TZ Alfa Romeo Giulia Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
									13	30th							2					23
1965	Autodelta Abarth	Alfa Romeo GTA Fiat-Abarth 850	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
											19th									8th
1966	Abarth	Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					14th			14th		DNF				1	DNF
1967	Abarth	Abarth 1300 GT Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
										2	11			DNF		2
1968	Auto-Neuser	Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
								34
1972	Alpina	BMW 2002	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										DNF

Web links

• Automobile Club Munich
• Furtmayr welding technology

Individual evidence

1. ↑ classicscars.com - Results . Retrieved February 11, 2017.