Eugen Strähl

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Eugen Strähl competed in the Sports Car World Championship in 1977 in a Sauber C5

Eugen Strähl (born May 2, 1944 in St. Gallen ) is a former Swiss entrepreneur and racing driver .

Entrepreneur

Eugen Strähl was an entrepreneur in feed production for many years . Eugen Strähl AG , founded in 2009 in Leimbach , Canton Aargau , was closed again in 2019.

Racing career

Eugen Strähl got his first driver's license in 1966 and competed in his mother's Alfa Romeo in automobile slaloms , a form of motor sport popular in Switzerland in the 1960s . In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his activities were limited to touring car racing .

In 1973 he started for the team of his compatriot Fredy Lienhard for the first time . Lienhard was heir to Lista Holding and ran his own racing team, for which Strähl competed again and again in the years that followed. The two racing drivers were close friends until old age. In 1975 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and, together with Gerhard Maurer and Christian Beez, surprisingly achieved victory in the GTS class and tenth place overall in the Porsche 911 Carrera RS .

Eugen Strähl was one of the first riders in the team of Peter Sauber . He competed twice for Sauber in Le Mans and in 1976 and 1977 in the World Sports Car Championship . His best finish in the championship was second overall in the Pergusa 500 km race in 1977 . His five race victories - in Le Castellet , Misano , Monza and at the Hockenheimring - he achieved in sports car races without status. In addition to competitions in the Interseries , he contested three races in the Formula 2 European Championship in 1979 and 1980 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1975 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gerhard Maurer Porsche 911 Carrera RS SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gerhard Maurer GermanyGermany Christian Beez Rank 10 and class win
1977 SwitzerlandSwitzerland PP Sauber AG Clean C5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Peter Bernhard failure Oil leak
1978 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Artos Francy Sauber PP AG Clean C5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marc Surer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Harry Blumer not classified

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
1976 Peter Sauber Clean C5 ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly VAL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly IMO GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT CanadaCanada MOS FranceFrance DIJ FranceFrance DIJ AustriaAustria SAL
13 5
1977 Clean Clean C5 United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly MUG FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly VAL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT PortugalPortugal EST FranceFrance LEC CanadaCanada MOS ItalyItaly IMO AustriaAustria SAL United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly VAL
DNF DNF 2 5 5 DNF DNF
1978 Clean Clean C5 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG United StatesUnited States VALLEY FranceFrance DIJ United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MIS United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT ItalyItaly VAL United StatesUnited States ROD
DNF

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Eugen Strähl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Strähl AG
  2. ^ Eugen Strähl AG deleted
personal data
SURNAME Strähl, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen