Herbert Demetz

Herbert Roberto Demetz (* 1936 in Kastelruth ; † December 22, 1965 ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

The South Tyrolean Herbert Demetz began his racing career in 1960 in a Lancia Appia . He celebrated his first race victory at the Coppa d'Oro di Modena in 1960, when he won the class for GT cars up to 1.5-liter displacement there.

In 1961 Demetz became a works driver at Abarth and competed in a large number of GT races in Italy for the Italian racing team. In 1962 he finished second in the Berlin Grand Prix , which is part of the sports car world championship, and retired from the Le Mans 24-hour race as a partner of Mauro Bianchi in the early stages of the race due to ignition damage. Demetz had his best season in 1965, when he rose to become one of the best European hillclimb drivers and won, among other things, the hill climb in Bolzano , which was a championship race of the sports car world championship that year.

Herbert Demetz had a fatal accident in December 1965.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	Abarth Corse & Cie	Fiat-Abarth 700S	Mauro Bianchi	failure	Ignition damage

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
1962	Abarth	Fiat-Abarth 1000 Fiat-Abarth 700S	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
								2		DNF							DNF
1964	Abarth	Abarth-Simca 2000 Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
								9								12		DNF				14th
1965	Abarth	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero Abarth-Simca 2000 Abarth 2000 OT	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
					1				DNF		DNF		7th			1	3		4th

Web links

• Herbert Demetz. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on July 23, 2019 (English). 
• Herbert Demetz at Racing Sports Cars