Jürgen Neuhaus

Jürgen Neuhaus in the Porsche Carrera RSR at the 1973 1000 km race on the Nürburgring

Neuhaus, standing behind the car (with sunglasses), hands the Porsche over to Paul Keller

Jürgen Neuhaus (born June 29, 1941 in Wuppertal ) is a former German automobile racing driver and entrepreneur.

Racing career

After training as a banker, Jürgen Neuhaus worked for a few years in his parents' textile finishing plant before he got into motorsport. He gained his first racing experience in 1961 with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speziale and later with an Iso Rivolta in mountain and airfield races.
In 1966 and 1967 he won a number of races in the German Automobile Circuit Championship (DARM) and airfield races with the Porsche 906 and Porsche 911 . He and Helmut Kelleners achieved his first class win in a long-distance race in 1967 at the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in the GT2.0 class. In the years that followed, up to 1977, Neuhaus regularly competed in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring, mostly with Porsche racing cars, and achieved class wins in 1969, 1971 and 1973.

In 1969 he drove with Dieter Fröhlich in a Porsche 911 T and 908/02 for one season in the sports car world championship and won his class at Monza and at the Nürburgring; in Zeltweg he finished fourth. In the same year he came under contract with the Gesipa Racing Team and successfully competed in a few races on a 908/02. A year later he received a Porsche 917 K , which he drove in the sports car world championship and in the newly founded Interseries .
The first race of the Interserie took place on June 28, 1970 at the Norisring , which Neuhaus won with his "Gesipa" 917. In the season he was able to achieve another victory in Thruxton , three 2nd places in Croft , Keimola and Hockenheim and a 6th place at the Südwestpokal Hockenheim . With this he achieved the overall victory of the Interserie in 1970, the greatest success of his racing career.
In 1971 he drove another season with a 917 Spyder for the Uschi Heckersbruch team and achieved 4th place in Zolder, Keimola and Hockenheim and 5th place in the 300-mile race in Hockenheim.

He then switched back to GT motorsport and drove a Porsche 911 in the German Racing Championship (DRM) in 1972 and, after a break in 1976 and 1977, a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR and Porsche 935 . His best DRM result was 10th overall in 1976.

In 1977 Neuhaus ended his racing career. Parallel to his racing career, he ran a disco called Bagpipes in the 1970s , which he sold after 25 years. Today he still works as an instructor for driving courses.

statistics

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
1967	IGFA	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
								11
1968	Jürgen Neuhaus	Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
								8th
1969	IGFA Chiquita Gesipa Racing	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						9			18th			7th
1970	Gesipa Racing	Porsche 917	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						10		17th	11
1971	Kremer Racing	Porsche 911	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										12
1972	Alpina	BMW 2800	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										27
1973	Kremer Racing	Porsche Carrera RSR	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
									11
1974	Gelo Racing	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
			9	11
1975	Josef Brambring	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
									DNF
1976	Josef Brambring	Porsche Carrera RSR	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
					8th
1977	Josef Brambring	Porsche 935	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
								DNF

literature

• Thomas Födisch, Jost Neßhöver, Rainer Roßbach, Harold Schwarz: Porsche 917: The heroes, the victories, the myth. Verlag Reinhard Klein, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-927458-26-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Neuhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jürgen Neuhaus at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} A lot of fun hanging out the factory drivers - portrait of Jürgen Neuhaus . In: Powerslide - Issue # 14 . December 1, 2011.
2. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the sports car world championship 1967. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 1, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Classic Cars - website: Jürgen Neuhaus: The Inter Series was my life. (No longer available online.) On: www.carsablanca.de , April 20, 2010, archived from the original on July 5, 2011 ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Interserie 1970. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 1, 2012 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dunlop - website: Jürgen Neuhaus - hearty cheerful nature. (No longer available online.) At: www.dunlop.eu , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
6. ↑ 911Magazin - website: Most expensive Porsche in the world sold for 3.1 million euros - exclusivity meets legendary driving fun. (No longer available online.) On: 911magazin.de , September 10, 2011, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: race results of the Interserie 1971. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 1, 2012 .