Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race
The Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race at today's Brumowski air base in Langenlebarn , Lower Austria , was a motorsport event that took place between 1966 and 1979 . Vehicles from numerous racing classes took part in the races, including Interseries , Formula Vee , Formula Ford , touring cars and Formula 2 . Also motorcycle races were held on the course. The Formula 2 races from the 1967 season onwards were part of the Formula 2 European Championship . Former racing greats such as Niki Lauda , Jack Brabham , Jim Clark , Jochen Rindt , Jacky Ickx and Ronnie Peterson took part. After Jochen Rindt's fatal accident at the Italian Grand Prix in 1970 , the race in Langenlebarn took place in 1970 and 1971 as the Jochen Rindt Memorial Race . A third Jochen Rindt memorial moved to the Österreichring in Spielberg in 1972 . After a seven-year break, further races took place in Langenlebarn in 1978 and 1979, but only for motorcycles.
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The Tulln-Langenlebarn military airfield was a popular location for possible motorsport events among motorsport enthusiasts in the Vienna area. Similar to the military airfield Zeltweg ( Grand Prix of Austria ), a race track in Tulln-Langenlebarn was longed for. After long negotiations with the army this finally gave the airfield for round race free and the ZV motorcycle of ÖAMTC acted as organizer of the airfield race Tulln-Langenlebarn. One lap on the course is 2.7 kilometers long, with the concrete landing strip, which is also the start and finish straight, measuring 1.1 kilometers. The minimum width of the racetrack is 12 meters. The connecting pieces in front of the hangars had a rough surface.
Formula 2 races
1967 season
The race as part of the Formula 2 European Championship in 1967 took place on July 16, making it part of the Formula 2 European Championship for the first time. Due to limited financial resources on the part of the organizer, only four graded drivers were invited. These drivers, mainly coming from Formula 1 , took part in these races purely for financial reasons, as they were not allowed to compete for championship points in Formula 2. These four drivers were Graham Hill , Jim Clark , Jack Brabham and Jochen Rindt . They did not arrive until the day of the race and before the race they had one and a half hours of post-training to get to know the course, which is lined with straw bales for the first time.
However, Jean-Pierre Beltoise achieved the fastest training time (1'05.30 '') in training on Saturday and started from pole position on Sunday . The race started at 4 p.m. Jochen Rindt soon took the lead in his Winkelmann Brabham racing car and had a close race with Jack Brabham, who overtook him early in the race and took the lead. Due to problems with the fuel pressure line on his Brabham vehicle, however, he was only able to hold this for one lap. Nevertheless, Rindt and Brabham fought a close race until the end, which Rindt won with a lead of about one second after a little less than an hour of racing time. Beltoise with his Matra finished third and secured his first 9 points for the Formula 2 championship. Fourth place was extremely competitive throughout the race and went to Frank Gardner (Brabham) ahead of Jacky Ickx ( Tyrrell ) and Graham Hill ( Lotus ), who had problems with the clutch . Despite Hill's sixth place, the race was extremely disappointing for Team Lotus. Jim Clark could not finish the race with the fastest lap (1'04.24 ") after a puncture, Jackie Oliver finished the race six laps behind only in 14th and penultimate place due to problems with the fuel injection In the Formula 2 overall standings, Garndner took fourth place from Alan Rees , who had been in the lead until then and who ended up in the lower end of the ranking due to health problems.
Bold : drivers with graded status; Driving in Formula 1 and receiving no points for the Formula 2 overall standings
1968 season
The race as part of the Formula 2 European Championship 1968 took place on July 14th. In contrast to the previous year, when the race was finished within 50 laps, there was a change in 1968: 35 laps were driven twice, with the end times of both races being added to a total time. The first run started at 2:15 p.m., the second at 4 p.m. Before the race, Beltoise (27 points) was clearly ahead of Henri Pescarolo (10 points) in the Formula 2 overall standings .
In the second year of the Tulln-Langenlebarn Formula 2 airfield race, Jochen Rindt also won. The day before he also took pole position with the fastest training time (1'03.27 ''). The win was significant as his victorious Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23C used spoilers for the first time in Formula 2 history . Rindt won both runs confidently (also with the fastest race lap of 1'03.20 ''), ahead of the two Frenchmen Beltoise and Pescarolo (both on Matra ). Kurt Ahrens (Brabham BT23C) finished fourth. The big surprise of the race was the winner of the Italian Formula 3 Championship, Ernesto Brambilla . He finished sixth overall in his first race with the Brabham BT23. Both Ferraris ( Derek Bell and Chris Amon ) struggled with transmission problems.
Bold : drivers with graded status; Driving in Formula 1 and receiving no points for the Formula 2 overall standings
1969 season
The race as part of the Formula 2 European Championship 1969 took place on July 13th. The mode from last year, with 2 × 35 laps, was retained this year. The starting position before the race revealed a close duel in the overall standings between Hubert Hahne (24 points) and Johnny Servoz-Gavin (22 points). Drivers with graded status only drove for prize money, but not for championship points for the overall standings in the Formula 2 European Championship . Servoz-Gavin did not start in Tulln-Langenlebarn, however, but drove his Matra in a race in the USA. The day before the race, Bill Ivy had a fatal accident while training for the East German Grand Prix .
The training took place on Saturday, July 12, 1969 in two runs. The first training started at 2 p.m., the second at 5 p.m. As in the previous year, Jochen Rindt took pole position in 1969 with a time of 1'02.10 ''. After last year's race was a very clear affair for Rindt, the 1969 race was much tighter. Above all, Jackie Stewart on his Matra MS7 was only very close behind Rindt in both races (who had the fastest race lap with 1'02.0 ''). Rindt, Stewart, Graham Hill and Peter Westbury (on his private Brabham ) had a very exciting race at the beginning of the second run. The first three were separated by only 0.3 (Stewart) and 1.2 seconds (Hill). Westbury had to retire shortly before the end of the race due to an engine failure. Rindt won all previous races in Tulln-Langenlebarn. In the overall standings, Hahne extended his lead to BMW with 7th overall. A total of 11 drivers made it into the final ranking.
Bold : drivers with graded status; Driving in Formula 1 and receiving no points for the Formula 2 overall standings
1970 season
The race weekend was overshadowed by Jochen Rindt's sudden accidental death during training for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix on September 5th. The Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race as part of the 1970 Formula 2 European Championship took place just a week later. In his honor, the race was henceforth also run as the Jochen Rindt Memorial Race .
The training took place on Saturday, September 12, 1970 in two runs (2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.). Clay Regazzoni took pole position in 1'01.50 ''. The race on September 13, 1970 started at 1:45 p.m. with the 1st run, the 2nd run started at 3:30 p.m. 2 × 35 laps of 2.86 kilometers (200.2 kilometers) were driven. The first run went very clearly to Regazzoni, followed by Jack Brabham and Jacky Ickx . Regazzoni also benefited from the extremely powerful Tecno Cosworth FVA motor, which achieved a speed of 11,000 rpm, 1,000 more than conventional FVAs. In the second race, however, Regazzoni was in the lead after only 4 laps due to an engine failure. François Cevert , who sat in an almost identical Tecno 70 as Regazzoni, won the second run, but only finished third in the overall standings (after a fifth place in run 1). He also achieved the fastest race lap (1'01.60 ''). The battle for overall victory was extremely exciting. Brabham looked like the sure winner until one lap to go, before he had to let Ickx pass him due to a problem with the fuel injection system and finally missed out on overall victory by four seconds. Jacky Ickx won the Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race for the first time.
Bold : drivers with graded status; Driving in Formula 1 and receiving no points for the Formula 2 overall standings.
1971 season
The II. Jochen Rindt Memorial Race as part of the Formula 2 European Championship 1971 took place on September 12, 1971. The training took place the day before in the sunshine during three runs (10:30 am, 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm). Ronnie Peterson , who drove for March , took pole position in 1'00.48 "for the race that started on the afternoon of the following day in heavy rain. 2 × 35 laps of 2.86 kilometers (200.2 kilometers) were driven. The first run went to Peterson 11 seconds ahead of him, followed by Tim Schenken and the Austrian Dieter Quester, while the Argentine Carlos Reutemann , who was also still racing for the overall standings, retired early due to a clutch failure The race was very exciting: Schenken, who recorded the fastest race lap with 1'10.79 ", was able to overtake Peterson and led to the last corner of the race in an aggressive duel. There, Schenken got too far outwards and touched a bale of straw that served as a barrier and skidded. However, he was able to continue the race and finished second. With this victory, Peterson was able to extend his lead in the Formula 2 overall standings and was almost impossible to catch up ahead of the remaining races in Albi and Vallelunga .
During the Formula 2 European Championship in 1971 , fewer Formula 1 drivers competed than in previous years. At the airport race in Tulln-Langenlebarn there were no drivers with graded status at the start (they have already scored points in Formula 1 and therefore do not receive any points for the Formula 2 overall standings. In the current season this would be Emerson, for example Fittipaldi or Graham Hill , neither of which were at the start).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motorsport in Austria: Tulln-Langenlebarn International Airfield Race Technical Museum Vienna - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Three formula two races: Langenlebarn (July 16th) In: Motor Sport , Aug. 1967, p. 10. Retrieved on: May 15, 2015
- ↑ Official results list of the Tulln-Langenlebarn 1967 international airfield race, Vienna Technical Museum - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: May 15, 2015.
- ↑ II Flugplatzrennen Tulln-Langenlebarn 1967 ( Memento from April 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) formula2.net. Retrieved on: May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Recent Formula Two Results - Tulln-Langenlebarn (July 14th) In: Motor Sport, Sept. 1968, p. 14. Retrieved on: May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race, 14 Jul 1968 oldracingcars.com. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Motorsport in Austria: Tulln-Langenlebarn international airfield race 1968 Technical Museum Vienna - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Motorsport in Austria: International Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race 1969 Technical Museum Vienna - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Formula two review: Langenlebarn (July 12th) In: Motor Sport, Aug. 1969, p. 18. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015
- ^ IV airfield race Tulln-Langenlebarn 1969 formula2.net. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ^ V Flugplatzrennen Tulln-Langenlebarn 1970 formula2.net. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ^ Formula Two Review In: Motor Sport, Oct. 1970, p. 29. Accessed on: May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Motorsport in Austria: Tulln-Langenlebarn International Airfield Race 1970 Technical Museum Vienna - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: May 16, 2015.
- ↑ VI Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race 1971 formula2.net. Retrieved on: December 27, 2015.
- ^ Formula Two Review In: Motor Sport, Oct. 1971, p. 26. Accessed on: December 27, 2015.
- ↑ Motorsport in Austria: Tulln-Langenlebarn International Airfield Race 1971 Technical Museum Vienna - Collection & Research: Motorsport in Austria. Retrieved on: December 27, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 16 ″ N , 16 ° 6 ′ 43 ″ E