Peter Bernhard

In 1977 Peter Bernhard competed in the Sports Car World Championship on a Sauber C5

Peter Bernhard (born November 11, 1943 in Winterthur ) is a former Swiss racing driver .

Racing career

Peter Bernhard drove national and international sports car races in the 1970s . He was active in the German racing championship and from 1976 in the sports car world championship . As a partner of Eugen Strähl , he finished second overall in the 500 km race in Pergusa in a Sauber C5 in 1977 . His only outing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans is from the same year . It had its last start at the 6-hour race in Vallelunga in 1980 . Together with Angelo Pallavicini , he crossed the finish line in a Porsche 934 in eleventh place in the final classification.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1977	PP Sauber AG	Clean C5	Eugen Strähl	failure	Oil leak

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
1976	Charles Graemiger Rennsport Zürich	Cheetah G501	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
															DNF	DNF
1977	Clean	Clean C5	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
					DNF	DNF				2		5	5
1978	Angelo Pallavicini Meccarillos Racing Pallvano-Corse	Porsche 934	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
					DNF		8th	8th	28
1980	Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche 934	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
																	11

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Bernhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Bernhard at Racing Sports Cars
• Peter Bernhard on the 24-hour piste