Karl-Ludwig Weiss

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Karl-Ludwig Weiss (left) and Klaus Ludwig at the 6-hour race on the Nürburgring in 1973

Karl-Ludwig Weiss (* 1947 ; † 2009 ) was a German racing car driver and entrepreneur.

Career

Karl-Ludwig Weiss began his racing career in touring car motorsport in the late 1960s. In the German Automobile Circuit Championship (DARM) he drove with a Fiat-Abarth 850 TC a few victories in the touring car class up to 850 cm³ in 1969 and finished 6th overall after the racing season. In 1970 he was able to improve his season result and achieved 3rd place in the overall standings.

A year later he switched to a Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR, with which he was able to advance to 7th place overall through a successful rest of the racing season despite initially two races without participation. In 1972 the DARM was converted into the German Automobile Touring Cup. Weiss was able to secure victory in the mountain track championship with his Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR and was runner-up in the circuit cup championship.

For the following season he switched to a Ford Capri RS 2600 and drove with it in the 1st division of the German Racing Championship (DRM) and in the German Automobile Circuit Cup. In that year he could not build on the great successes of the previous years and finished the DRM season with 10th overall place. In 1974 Weiss started again with Waltraud Odenthal in the European Touring Car Championship in the Zandvoort Trophy and reached 11th place there.
He then ended his racing career and joined his parents' Fiat and Lancia dealership that his son now runs. Karl-Ludwig Weiss died suddenly of cancer in 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Touringracing.net - website: DARM overall result 1969. On: touringcarracing.net , accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Touringracing.net - website: DARM overall result 1970. On: touringcarracing.net , accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Touringracing.net - website: DARM overall results 1971. On: touringcarracing.net , accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b Dunlop - Internet site: Karl-Ludwig Weiss - The Abarth-Palatine. (No longer available online.) At: www.dunlop.eu , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 11, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dunlop.eu
  5. ↑ Touringracing.net - Internet site: Race results of the European Touring Car Championship 1974. On: touringcarracing.net , accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  6. ↑ BigMammut Webdesign - Hansjoerg Fichtner: Company | Autohaus Weiss GmbH. In: www.fiat-weiss.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Karl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
DATE OF DEATH 2009