Gerhard Koch (racing driver)

Porsche 904 from Siffert / Schiller and Pon / Koch at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1964

The Porsche 906/6 Carrera 6 with the Gerhard Koch in 1966 at the 24-hour race at Le Mans was the start

Gerhard Koch (born July 15, 1935 - † August 21, 2010 ) was a German racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Gerhard Koch was known as a works driver for Porsche in the 1960s . Between 1959 and 1970 he celebrated 20 overall and 15 class wins. For the first time he stayed victorious in a national sports car race in the Netherlands in 1958 . His last victory was the triumph of the 1967 Avus Grand Prix on a Porsche 906 .

In between, the overall victory lay in the sports car world championship in 1966 scoring Grand Prix of Mugello , together with Jochen Neerpasch the wheel of a Porsche 906, the second place at the 1000 km race at the Nurburgring in 1967 , the third with Ben Pon in 1964 on Porsche 904 and fifth place including class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 .

Koch ran a haulage company in Neuss. After developing cancer, he sold the company. He was married and had a daughter and a son.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1963	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356B 2000GS GT	Carel Godin de Beaufort	failure	Engine failure
1964	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 904/4 GTS	Heinz Schiller	Rank 10
1965	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 904/4 GTS	Anton Fischhaber	5th place and class win
1966	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 906/6 Carrera 6	Robert Buchet	failure	accident
1967	Christian Poirot	Porsche 906 Carrera 6	Christian Poirot	Rank 8

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1970	International Martini Racing Team	Porsche 908/02	Richard Attwood	Gérard Larrousse	Rank 7

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
1959	Gerhard Koch	Porsche 356	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					20th
1960	Scuderia Colonia	Porsche 356	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						13
1961	Gerhard Koch	Porsche 356	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					9
1962	Paul-Ernst Straehle Walter Schneider	Porsche 356 BMW 700	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									9					DNF			7th
1963	Paul-Ernst Straehle Porsche Abarth	Porsche 356 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
						12	7th		10			DNF								DNF
1964	Porsche Racing Team Holland	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
							7th		3		10	6th										8th
1965	Porsche	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
											25th			5
1966	Gerhard Koch Porsche	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					DNF		DNF	10	DNF	1		5
1967	Porsche Christian Poirot Gerhard Koch	Porsche 906 Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
					DNF	7th		2	8th		DNF			DNF
1968	Gerhard Koch	Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
						4th		20th	5		7th
1969	German BG Racing Team	Porsche 907	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					10	3	6th	DNF	10			DNF
1970	Martini Racing	Porsche 908	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
				7th	6th	DNF			7th

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 : Gerhard Koch  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Gerhard Koch at Racing Sports Cars
• Gerhard Koch at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grand Prix of the Avus 1967