Glöckler helmet

Helm Glöclker contested the Liège-Rome-Liège rally in 1954 with the Glöckler Coupé

Helmut "Helm" Glöckler (born January 13, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 18, 1993 ibid) was a German racing car driver .

Career

Helm Glöckler was the cousin of Walter Glöckler , who became known in the 1950s for the development and construction of Porsche racing cars, the Glöckler Porsches . Helm Glöckler also competed with Glöckler Porsches.

Glöckler began his career in 1948 in national monoposto and sports car races in West Germany . Among other things, he drove Formula 3 races with the Kurpfalz built by Helmut Polensky . In 1949 it dominated the class up to 1.5-liter displacement of the newly created German Sports Car Championship at will. With a Veritas RS , he won seven races and secured the championship. In 1953 he became a works driver at Porsche and from then on also competed in international sports car races. In 1955 he finished sixth in the Le Mans 24-hour race and, together with Wolfgang Seidel, eighth in the Mille Miglia .

In 1953 he was registered on a Cooper T23 at the German Grand Prix on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring . An engine failure during training prevented the start of the race.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Porsche KG	Porsche 550 Coupe	Hans Herrmann	Rank 16
1954	Porsche KG	Porsche 550 1500 Spyder	Richard von Frankenberg	failure	Engine failure
1955	Porsche KG	Porsche 550/4 RS 1500 Spyder	Jaroslav Juhan	Rank 6
1956	Porsche KG	Porsche 356 Carrera 1500	Max Nathan	failure	Car fire after collision

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Porsche helmet Glöckler	Porsche 550 Renault 4CV	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					16		21st
1954	Porsche	Porsche 356 Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
					34	DNF
1955	Porsche	Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					8th	6th	12
1956	Wolfgang Seidel	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					7th	DNF
1957		Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
					DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Helm Glöckler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Helm Glöckler at Racing Sports Cars