Holger Bean
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| First race: | Diepholz 1985 | ||||||||
| Last race: | Diepholz 1985 | ||||||||
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| 1985 unknown team ( Volvo ) | |||||||||
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| Points: | 9 | ||||||||
Holger Bohne (born January 27, 1948 in Emmerich ) is a former German rally and racing driver.
Career
In the 1980s, Bohne won the longest rally in Europe, the Tour d'Europe, which was around 10,000 km each, three times in a row. 1981 on a works Peugeot 505 STI, 1982 on a Mercedes 500 SL and 1983 on a works Ford Sierra XR8i (with 8 cyl. Mustang engine). There were also spectacular races in BMW, Ford and Volvo, in races on the Nürburgring and on airfield racetracks.
After learning motorsport "from scratch" (skill tournaments, orientation drives and slalom events), at the beginning of his more serious career he achieved his first in sporadic missions on a near-series BMW 2002 ti both at the Westphalia-Lippe Rally and the AvD Hubertus Rally Overall victories. A Bremen patron spontaneously offered him a prepared Opel Ascona , with which Bohne won almost every rally in northern Germany (Hanseatic, Wiehengebirge, Melle, Wiking, Lübeck, Delmenhorst, etc.) in which he participated, unless he dropped out due to a technical defect from what hardly happened. In his more than 20-year motorsport career, he has only irreparably destroyed one car, which is very remarkable.
After using a Porsche 911 at the forerunner rally of the WM Rallye Deutschland , the Rallye Hunsrück, where he retired from the current world champion Ari Vatanen because of a damaged chassis, he received an offer from Ford Germany , a series-related escort RS 2000 to drive in the German championship. The fights against the established Opel GT / E competitor Achim Warmbold ended on par. At the last World Championship round in 1978, the RAC Rally in England , he took an outstanding 3rd place in the series touring car category.
A year as a driver of the factory Golf followed, which ended with several class wins and a very good place in the final classification of the DRM. He narrowly missed the title of "German Rallye Champion", as a technical defect in the last run destroyed this already palpable title.
1980 Bohne drove the Monte Carlo Rally and rallies in Germany and Europe for Mercedes . These assignments were officially reported to the Kassel branch via the "Scuderia Kassel" branch, as the parent plant did not want to publicly commit to motorsport, although the cars were built in the Mercedes development department and service crews from Stuttgart were also in action. The very first rally with a 280 CE in Monte Carlo resulted in a 2nd place among approx. 180 production cars. As a result, the world's first overall victory for a production car at a European championship run, the Saarland Rally, and many national and international placings were 2nd or 3rd overall with the models 450 SLC, 500 SLC and 500 SL. The Mercedes were used in Germany (including at the Winter Rally, Saarland, Serengeti, Hessen, Baltic), in Belgium (Haspengow, 24h Ypres), in Italy (Elba, 4 Regioni, San Remo), in Greece (Halkidikis), in Poland (Poland Rally and Warsaw Rally) and in France.
After the Stuttgart plant unexpectedly withdrew from rallying, Bohne drove a few more rallies in a Ferrari 308 GTB and a Mercedes 190E 2.4, which he made into a winning car after only three rallies. He then withdrew from it after more than 20 years of active motorsport. His partners during these years were Peter Rumpfkeil, Kalli Hufstadt , Rolf Stöver, Horst Buchholz, Klaus Renkus, Franz-Josef Moormann, Günter Jarecki, Peter Diekmann, Adolf Ahrens, Jürgen Jahns. In some cases names that have had a significant impact on German motorsport in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond.
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| SURNAME | Bean, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rally and racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein ) |