Kurt Ahrens junior
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 Germany
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1966 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | Grand Prix of Germany 1969 | ||||||||
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| 1966 Caltex Racing Team 1967 Ron Harris Racing Team 1968 Caltex Racing Team 1969 Ahrens Racing Team | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Kurt Karl Heinrich "Kurti" Ahrens (born April 19, 1940 in Braunschweig ) is a former German racing driver. He started as Kurt Ahrens junior until about 1963 . (on Cooper ). His father Kurt Ahrens senior drove in the same races . (on lotus ).
Career
Monopostosport
Ahrens took part in races from 1958, initially in Formula 3, which until 1959 was advertised for cars with engines up to 500 cc. In 1961, 1963 and 1965 he won the German championship title in Formula Junior . In 1967 he was on the Hockenheimring Formula 3 Nations Cup winner and winner of the international ADAC Avus race with a Formula 3 - Brabham BT21 . In the meantime he also drove in Formula 2 and competed in the Eifel race , among others . In 1968 he finished second in a Brabham BT23 in the Formula 2 round of the Eifel race on the south loop of the Nürburgring. He drove the 30 laps or 232.410 km in 1: 25: 35.2 hours and crossed the finish line 25.4 seconds after the winner, Chris Irwin .
Successes in sports cars and starts in Formula 2 at the German Grand Prix
Ahrens was also active as a works driver for Porsche, albeit without a permanent contract at his own request. He competed for Porsche in Le Mans in 1969 and 1970 , but retired both times. In 1969 he won the 1000 km race in Zeltweg together with the Swiss Joseph Siffert in a Porsche 917 , and in 1970 with Vic Elford the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in a Porsche 908/3 . At the Zeltweg race in the late autumn of 1970, Kurt Ahrens / Helmut Marko were also in the lead until they retired without petrol because the fuel consumption was incorrectly calculated.
Ahrens competed four times between 1966 and 1969 in races for the automobile world championship on the Nürburgring , one of them in 1968 with a Brabham Formula 1 car. At the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in the 1960s, vehicles from the then Formula 2 were also allowed to start because of the otherwise too small starting fields and the track length of 22.8 km. Ahrens took part in the world championship races in 1966 , 1967 , 1968 and 1969 in a Brabham and Protos -F2, but could not place in any of these races in the points. In 1969 he finished seventh overall and third in the Formula 2 classification, one lap behind.
Private
After a touring car race in Brno at the end of 1970, Kurt Ahrens retired from active racing at the age of 30 in order to devote more time to his wife and four children, two sons and two daughters. He also took over his father's iron shop, where he had worked during his time as a racing driver. Kurt Ahrens sen. (1908–1988) was a painter and restorer, but gave up the profession early, moved from Hildesheim to Braunschweig and started his own business as a scrap dealer; from the early 1930s to 1963 he drove races in which he survived numerous accidents.
Kurt Ahrens jun. had only one serious accident in about twelve years in motorsport when he got into the crash barriers during a test drive on April 6, 1970 on the VW test track in Ehra-Lessien with a Porsche 917 while aquaplaning at about 250 km / h. The car crashed, Ahrens was unharmed. This event and the high number of drivers who died in an accident in the 1960s were ultimately decisive for retiring at a relatively young age and at the height of their sporting career.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1969 |
Porsche System Engineering
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Porsche 917 |
Rolf Stommelen
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failure | Oil leak |
| 1970 |
 Porsche KG Salzburg
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Porsche 917L |
 Vic Elford
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failure | Engine failure |
Sebring results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1969 |
Porsche System Engineering Ltd.
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Porsche 908/02 |
 Joe Buzzetta
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Rolf Stommelen
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Rank 3 | |
| 1970 |
Porsche Audi
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Porsche 917K |
Vic Elford
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failure | accident |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
Web links
- Kurt Ahrens - A piece of motorsport history. ahrenskurt.de, accessed on April 22, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Behrndt, Jörg Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: German racing drivers . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-042-2 , p. 88.
- ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC Eifelrennen . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2009, ISBN 978-3-86852-070-5 , p. 256.
- ↑ auto, motor und sport , issue 18/1969, p. 87 u. 90.
- ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 , p. 75 u. 222.
- ↑ auto, motor und sport , issue 23/1970, p. 122.
- ↑ auto, motor and sport . Issue 17/1969, p. 96.
- ^ On the 70th birthday of Kurt Ahrens. Accessed May 1, 2014.
- ^ Homepage of Kurt Ahrens
- ^ Portrait of Kurt Ahrens in N TV
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ahrens, Kurt junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahrens, Kurt Karl Heinrich (full name); Ahrens, Kurt; Ahrens, Kurti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |