Manfred Winkelhock
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 Germany
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| Formula 1 world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1982 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1985 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1982–1984 ATS • 1984 Brabham • 1985 RAM | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | WM-24. ( 1982 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 2 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Manfred Winkelhock (born October 6, 1951 in Waiblingen , † August 12, 1985 in Toronto ) was a German racing driver . He started in Formula 1 and the sports car world championship in the early 1980s , where he had an accident in 1985 and died as a result.
Career
The son of a crane and towing company lived in Berglen- Steinach (Württemberg). His motorsport career began in 1976 in the newly founded VW Junior Cup with a win in the first race.
Winkelhock became known in 1977 through his assignments with Marc Surer and Eddie Cheever in the BMW Junior Team in BMW touring cars. In the German Racing Championship (DRM) he successfully drove top-class racing cars from Porsche and Ford . In 1980 he survived a spectacular accident unharmed on the Nürburgring -Nordschleife when his Formula 2 racing car took off on a knoll in front of the airfield section due to a damaged front wing and overturned once backwards in the air and sideways several times after landing.
In the same year he tried in vain to qualify for the Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Arrows in Imola . In 1982 and 1983 he started the entire season for the German team ATS , where he made people sit up and take notice in some races - for example in Monaco - with good training performances when he held the provisional pole position . After ATS team boss Günter Schmid separated from him in 1984 after differences at the Monza Grand Prix in order to get drivers with sponsorship money, Winkelhock started a race for Brabham. In 1985 he drove for the English RAM Formula 1 team and also competed in the World Sports Car Championship. Manfred Winkelhock contested a total of 47 F1 races, in which he was able to win two championship points (Rio de Janeiro 1982: 5th place).
Accidental death in 1985
Manfred Winkelhock died on August 12, 1985, the day after an accident in a sports car race in Mosport Park near Toronto (Canada) of serious head injuries. With his Kremer - Porsche 962 , Winkelhock hit a concrete wall at around 230 km / h - probably because of a technical defect. Only after 25 minutes could he be released from the wreck, unconscious.
family
His younger brother Joachim Winkelhock was a Formula 1 driver for AGS for a short time , but always failed because of the pre-qualification. He was active as a racing driver until 1996 in the German Touring Car Championship and until 2003 in the DTM successor series .
Thomas Winkelhock , the youngest of the three brothers, was active in the DMSB production car championship , for example .
Manfred's son Markus Winkelhock drove Formula 3 until 2003 and in 2004 for AMG-Mercedes in the DTM . He started in 2006 in Formula 1 for the Midland F1 Racing team as a Friday test driver and in 2007 was active as a test and reserve driver for the Midland successor team, the Spyker F1 . He drove his only Formula 1 race as part of the European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring . Since only he started out of the pit lane with rain tires, after the onset of rain he took the lead on the second lap, which he was able to hold for six laps. From 2007 to 2010 he drove again in the DTM with Team Rosberg for Audi . In 2011 and 2012, Markus Winkelhock drove in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Team Münnich Motorsport.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1979 |
 Hervé Poulain |
BMW M1 |
Marcel Mignot
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Hervé Poulain
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Rank 6 | |
| 1980 |
 March Racing Team
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BMW M1 |
 Patrick Nève
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 Michael Korten
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failure | accident |
| 1982 |
Fordwerke AG
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Ford C100 |
Klaus Niedzwiedz
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failure | Engine failure |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Winkelhock - Leben am Limit" ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (ARD documentation, broadcast on June 20, 2015)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Winkelhock, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German automobile racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waiblingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1985 |
| Place of death | Toronto |