Jürgen Lässig

Jürgen Lässig at the wheel of the Kremer K8 Spyder at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Jürgen Lässig (born February 25, 1943 in Tuttlingen ) is a former German automobile racing driver .

Career

Largely unknown to a larger motorsport community, Lässig was one of the best German sports car drivers of the 1980s and 1990s. He was at the start 16 times in the 24-hour race of Le Mans and was only twice less than Hans-Joachim Stuck in this endurance race, which with 18 starts is the German with the most participations in the Sarthe.

His greatest success in motorsport celebrated Casual 1995 when he with a Kremer K8 Spyder together with Giovanni Lavaggi , Marco Werner , Christophe Bouchut and Oscar Larrauri the 24 Hours of Daytona won.

He made his Le Mans debut in 1981 as a partner of Edgar Dören and Gerhard Holup in a Porsche 935K3 . The trio had to give up after driving 47 laps after an engine failure. In the same year, the trio won the 1000 km race in Monza . Two years later, Lässig made it into the top ten of the overall standings for the first time when he finished seventh in a Porsche 956 from Obermaier Racing and with Axel Plankenhorn and Desiré Wilson as partners.

In 1986, again in the Porsche 956 from Obermaier Racing, he finished fifth and a year later he achieved his best result at Le Mans when he finished second in the Primagaz Porsche 962 .

Lässig made it into the top ten seven times at Le Mans and was considered a specialist in the Porsche 962, which he had driven for many years. With this model he was also at the start in many sports car races apart from Le Mans and Daytona.

After the 1997 Le Mans race, which he had to end prematurely after an engine failure on the Kremer K8, he announced his retirement from motorsport.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1981	Weralit Racing Team	Porsche 935K3	Edgar Dören	Gerhard Holup	failure	Engine failure
1983	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	Axel Plankenhorn	Desiré Wilson	Rank 7
1984	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	George Fouché	John Graham	failure	accident
1985	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	Jesús Pareja-Mayo	Hervé Regout	Rank 8
1986	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	Fulvio Ballabio	Dudley Wood	Rank 5
1987	Primagaz Compétition	Porsche 962C	Pierre Yver	Bernard de Dryver	Rank 2
1988	Primagaz Compétition	Porsche 962C	Pierre Yver	Dudley Wood	Rank 11
1989	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962C	Pierre Yver	Paul Belmondo	failure	accident
1990	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962C	Pierre Yver	Otto Altenbach	Rank 9
1991	Team Salamin Primagaz	Porsche 962C	Pierre Yver	Otto Altenbach	failure	Suspension damage
1992	Obermaier Racing GmbH	Porsche 926C	Pierre Yver	Otto Altenbach	Rank 10
1993	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK6	Giovanni Lavaggi	Wayne Taylor	Rank 12
1994	Gulf Oil Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Derek Bell	Robin Donovan	Rank 6
1995	Porsche Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Franz Konrad	Antonio de Azevedo Hermann	failure	Gearbox damage
1996	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Christophe Bouchut	Harri Toivonen	failure	accident
1997	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Tomás Saldaña	Carl Rosenblad	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1995	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Christophe Bouchut	Giovanni Lavaggi	Rank 30

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
1977	Max Moritz	Porsche Carrera RS	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
																		DNF
1978	Max Moritz	Porsche Carrera RS	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
									23
1979	Max Moritz	Porsche 934	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	BRH	ROA	VAL	ELS
										7th
1980	Weralit Racing	Porsche 935	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
				DNF					6th	11							4th	DNF
1981	Weralit Racing	Porsche 935	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
					12	1		5	5	DNF
1982	Weralit Racing Obermaier Racing	Porsche 935 BMW M1	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	MUG	FUJ	BRH
			DNF	9	DNF		10
1983	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	FUJ	KYA
			4th	4th	4th	7th	5
1984	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
			DNF	DNF	DNF	21st			5	6th
1985	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	MUG	MON	SIL	LEM	HOK	MOS	SPA	BRH	FUJ	SEL
			6th	DNF	7th	8th	7th		8th
1986	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	JER	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
				12	5	7th	8th	4th	4th		DNF
1987	Primagaz	Porsche 962	JAR	JER	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
							2	5		7th	9
1988	Primagaz	Porsche 962	JER	JAR	MON	SIL	LEM	BRÜ	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ	SAN
							11
1989	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962	SUZ	DIJ	JAR	BRH	ONLY	DON	SPA	MEX
				20th	15th	12	16		12	DNF
1990	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	SPA	DIJ	ONLY	DON	MOT	MEX
			DNF	DNF	18th	11		16	DNF	17th
1991	Team Salamin	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
						DNF		10
1992	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					10

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