Ludwig Heimrath senior

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Porsche 934/5 , Paul Miller and Ludwig Heimrath's winning car in the Mosport 6-hour race in 1977

Ludwig Heimrath also Ludwig Heimrath senior (born August 11, 1934 ) is a former Canadian racing driver of German descent.

Career

Ludwig Heimrath emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1956. There he settled in Toronto , where there was already a large community of former Germans, and worked for VW Canada. Encouraged by VW Canada, Heimrath began his racing career in 1958 with a Volkswagen. A year later he switched to a Porsche 356 Super 1500 with which he came third in a number of non-championship races. In 1960 he entered a Porsche 356 Super 90 Speedster and won several races such as the LASC Green Acres, MMGCC St. Eugene and the Harewood Acres. He drove his first endurance race with a podium finish together with Francis Bradley in the 6-hour race at Harewood Acres in a Porsche 718 RS 60 . Both came in second overall.

In 1961, the Canadian Sports Car Championship (CASC) was founded, in which Heimrath was able to secure the title with a Porsche 718 RS 60. He competed regularly in CASC championship races in the following years until 1967 and was able to repeat this success in 1964 with a Cooper T61M Monaco . In the intervening years 1962 and 1963, as well as in 1965, he became vice-champion.

At the same time, he drove McLaren Elva racing cars between 1965 and 1968 in races that were included in the United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) and Can-Am Championship .

From 1973 Heimrath started with a Porsche 911 S in the Trans-Am championship of the SCCA in the GTU class. In the following year he switched to a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR and drove there successfully in the GTO class until 1976. In 1977 he drove a Porsche 934/5 in the TA2 class of the SCCA. That year he celebrated one of his greatest successes. At the 6-hour race at Mosport in 1977 , which was part of the Trans-Am and the sports car world championship , he achieved overall victory together with Paul Miller .

From 1978 to 1980 Heimrath drove a Porsche 935 in races for the Trans-Am and IMSA championships and, in addition to good placements, was also able to achieve several victories. In 1981 and 1982 he drove a Porsche 924 Carrera GTR , with which he mostly had to give up the race prematurely. From 1981 he competed in endurance races together with his son Ludwig Heimrath junior . In 1983 and 1984 he mostly raced Porsche 930 and Porsche 934 racing cars.

He contested his last long-distance race with his son and Kees Kroesemeijer for Kremer Racing at the 1000 km race in Mosport in 1985 in a Porsche 956 and finished fourth.

In the following year Heimrath drove in the Canadian Porsche 944 Cup championship and achieved eighth place in the season result. In 1988 and 1989 he competed in the Canadian Porsche 944 Turbo Cup championship and finished in 15th and 8th place. In 1997 he started with a Porsche 968 in the Canadian GT Challenge Cup in the GT2 class and won the championship straight away. In the following years until 2000 he drove in this championship.

Ludwig Heimrath competed several times in his racing career in the Daytona 24-hour race and the Sebring 12-hour race . He achieved his best result in 1962 with Jerry Palivka in a Porsche 718 RSK with 26th place overall and second place in the S1.6 sports car classification. He drove his last 24-hour race together with his son in Daytona in 1984 , which both had to end prematurely.

In addition to the sports car races, Heimrath also contested a few formula races. In 1968 and 1969 he took part in a few runs for the USAC championship without success . In 1970 he started for one season in the Canadian Formula A Championship .

In 2000 Heimrath officially left professional motorsport. Today he still competes at local motorsport events.

statistics

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1961 Canada 1957Canada Eglinton Caledonia Motors Porsche 718 RS 61 Canada 1957Canada Peter Ryan Canada 1957Canada Francis Bradley Rank 9
1962 Canada 1957Canada Eglinton Caledonia Motors Porsche 718 RSK Canada 1957Canada Jerry Palivka Rank 26
1966 CanadaCanada Standard Triumph Motor Co. Triumph TR4A CanadaCanada Craig Hill Rank 26
1975 CanadaCanada Ludwig Heimrath Porsche 911 Carrera RSR CanadaCanada Norm Ridgely failure
1978 CanadaCanada Heimrath Racing Porsche 935 CanadaCanada Norm Ridgely failure Engine failure
1979 CanadaCanada Heimrath Racing Porsche 935 El SalvadorEl Salvador Enrique Molins ("Jamsal") El SalvadorEl Salvador Carlos Moran failure
1980 CanadaCanada Ludwig Heimrath Porsche 935 United StatesUnited States Johnny Rutherford El SalvadorEl Salvador Carlos Moran Rank 8
1981 CanadaCanada Heimrath Porsche Porsche 935 CanadaCanada Ludwig Heimrath junior failure accident

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
1961 Eglinton Caledonia Motors Porsche 718 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly PES
9
1962 Eglinton Caledonia Motors Porsche 718 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MAY ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany BER GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance TAV ItalyItaly CCA United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
26th
1966 Standard Motor Company Triumph TR4 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly CCE GermanyGermany HOK SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL
26th
1974 Heimrath Racing Porsche Carrera RSR ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly IMO FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH South Africa 1961South Africa KYA
4th
1975 Heimrath Racing Porsche Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly MUG FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly BY GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
8th
1976 Heimrath Racing Porsche Carrera RSR ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly VAL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly IMO GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT CanadaCanada MOS FranceFrance DIJ FranceFrance DIJ AustriaAustria SAL
DNF
1977 Heinrath Racing Porsche 934 United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly MUG FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly VAL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT PortugalPortugal EST FranceFrance LEC CanadaCanada MOS ItalyItaly IMO AustriaAustria SAL United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly VAL
8th 1
1978 Heimrath Racing Porsche 935 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG United StatesUnited States VALLEY FranceFrance DIJ United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MIS United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT ItalyItaly VAL United StatesUnited States ROD
35 DNF 15th
1979 Bytzek Automotive
Heimrath Racing 		Porsche 911 Carrera RSR
Porsche 935 		United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG United StatesUnited States VALLEY FranceFrance DIJ United StatesUnited States RIV United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT BelgiumBelgium SPA United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH United StatesUnited States ROA ItalyItaly VAL El SalvadorEl Salvador ELS
33 DNF DNF DNF
1980 Heimrath Racing Porsche 935 United StatesUnited States DAY United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly MON United StatesUnited States RIV United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT BelgiumBelgium SPA CanadaCanada MOS United StatesUnited States ROA ItalyItaly VAL FranceFrance DIJ
66 8th 11 DNF DNF
1981 Heimrath Racing Porsche 935
Porsche 924 		United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly MON United StatesUnited States RIV United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT BelgiumBelgium SPA CanadaCanada MOS United StatesUnited States ROA United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH
14th DNF DNF 14th
1985 Kremer Racing Porsche 956 ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL FranceFrance LEM GermanyGermany HOK CanadaCanada MOS BelgiumBelgium SPA United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH JapanJapan FUJ MalaysiaMalaysia SEL
4th

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Heimrath senior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Statsf1 - website: Ludwig Heimrath. From: www.statsf1.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Racing Reference - website: Ludwig Heimrath. From: racing-reference.info , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Ignitionmag - website: Ludwig Heimrath. On: ignitionmag.ca , October 30, 2010, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Racing Sports Cars - website: Ludwig Heimrath. From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Racing Sports Cars - Website: Canadian Sports Car Championship. From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c CMHF - website: Ludwig Heimrath. On: cmhf.ca , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Racing Sports Cars - Website: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 3). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Racing Sports Cars - Internet site: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 4). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Racing Sports Cars - Internet site: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 5). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Racing Sports Cars website: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 6). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Sports Car World Championship 1977. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  12. ^ A b Racing Sports Cars - website: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 7). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b Racing Sports Cars website: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 8). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Classicscars - Website: Race results of the Sports Car World Championship 1985. From : www.classicscars.com , accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  15. ↑ a b DriverDB website: Ludwig Heimrath. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Racing Sports Cars - Website: Complete Archive of Ludwig Heimrath (page 9). From: www.racingsportscars.com , accessed June 26, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the sports car world championship 1962. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: IMSA 1984 race results. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on June 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Heimrath, Ludwig senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimrath, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1934