Reinhold Joest
Reinhold Joest (born April 24, 1937 ) is a former German automobile racing driver and owner of Joest Racing .
Career
Joest is a trained businessman. He began his racing career in 1962 with a Porsche Carrera and an Alfa Romeo . Until 1968 he mainly competed in hill climbs and was German champion twice. From 1966 he gradually switched to circuits and celebrated his first success in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , when he and Hermann Dorner won the prototype class up to 1600 cm³ in a Porsche 356B 1600 and finished 26th in the overall ranking. In 1971 Joest was accepted into the Porsche works team, in which he achieved almost everything except a Le Mans victory. In 1969 he finished sixth in the Ford GT40 at Le Mans, and in 1972 third in the Porsche 908/2 long tail . In 1978, Joest founded his own racing team, Joest Racing , in which he is team boss, but also raced himself for the first three years. In 1978 he finished third in a Porsche 936 and in 1980 second in a self-built Porsche 908/80 at Le Mans. Joest won the Interserie , several races of the World Sports Car Championship and in 1980 the Daytona 24-hour race . 1981 Joest won his last race as an active racing driver together with Jochen Mass in Kyalami . Then he ended his career.
In 1978 he won the overall classification in the class of the European Sports Car Championship . For this he received the silver bay leaf .
Since 1984, Joest and his team have won the Le Mans 24 Hours 16 times.
Private
Reinhold Joest is married.
statistics
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1969 | German auto newspaper | Ford GT40 Mk.I | Helmut Kelleners | Rank 6 | ||
1971 | Martini Racing Team | Porsche 917/20 | Willi Kauhsen | failure | accident | |
1972 | Jo Siffert ATE Racing | Porsche 908 LH | Michel Weber | Mario Casoni | Rank 3 | |
1973 | Martini Racing Team | Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | Claude Haldi | failure | Gasoline system | |
1975 | Joest Racing Ovoro | Porsche 908/03 | Jürgen Barth | Mario Casoni | Rank 4 | |
1976 | Martini Racing Joest | Porsche 936 Spider | Jürgen Barth | failure | Engine failure | |
1978 | Martini Racing Porsche System | Porsche 936/77 | Peter Gregg | Hurley Haywood | Rank 3 | |
1980 | Equipe Liqui Moly | Porsche 908/80 | Jacky Ickx | Rank 2 | ||
1981 | Joest Racing | Porsche 908/80 | Dale Whittington | Klaus Niedzwiedz | 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 | 18th | 19th | 20th |
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1964 | Reinhold Joest Nord |
Porsche 356 | DAY | SEB | TAR | MON | SPA | CON | ONLY | ROS | LEM | REI | FRE | CCE | RTT | SIM | ONLY | MON | TDF | BRI | BRI | PAR |
24 | 18th | |||||||||||||||||||||
1965 | Reinhold Joest | Porsche 356 | DAY | SEB | BOL | MON | MON | RTT | TAR | SPA | ONLY | MUG | ROS | LEM | REI | BOZ | FRE | CCE | OVI | ONLY | BRI | BRI |
17th | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1966 | Scuderia Lufthansa | Porsche 356 | DAY | SEB | MON | TAR | SPA | ONLY | LEM | MUG | CCE | HOK | SIM | ONLY | ZEL | |||||||
23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1967 | Scuderia Lufthansa |
Porsche 911 Abarth 1300 OT |
DAY | SEB | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | HOK | MUG | BRH | CCE | ZEL | OVI | ONLY | ||||||
DNF | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1968 | Caltex Racing Scuderia Lufthansa |
Porsche 906 | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | TAR | ONLY | SPA | WAT | ZEL | LEM | ||||||||||
11 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1969 | IGFA Racing German Auto Zeitung |
Ford GT40 | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | TAR | SPA | ONLY | LEM | WAT | ZEL | ||||||||||
16 | 4th | 10 | 6th | 6th | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
1970 | Martini Racing | Porsche 908 | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | TAR | SPA | ONLY | LEM | WAT | ZEL | ||||||||||
5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1971 | Auto Usdau | Porsche 917 | BUA | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | ZEL | WAT | |||||||||
DNF | 6th | 7th | 4th | 6th | DNF | |||||||||||||||||
1972 | ATE team Reinhold Joest |
Porsche 908 | BUA | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | ZEL | WAT | |||||||||
DNF | 2 | DNF | DNF | 3 | 6th | |||||||||||||||||
1973 | Reinhold Joest Porsche |
Porsche 908 Porsche Carrera RSR |
DAY | VAL | DIJ | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | ZEL | WAT | ||||||||||
DNF | 5 | DNF | DNF | 10 | DNF | |||||||||||||||||
1974 | Joest Racing | Porsche 908 | MON | SPA | ONLY | IMO | LEM | ZEL | WAT | LEC | BRH | KYA | ||||||||||
7th | 19th | 8th | DNF | 4th | 17th | DNF | ||||||||||||||||
1975 |
Joest Racing Scuderia Brescia |
Porsche 908 | DAY | MUG | DIJ | MON | SPA | BY | ONLY | ZEL | WAT | |||||||||||
DNF | 2 | 2 | 7th | 3 | DNF | 3 | 4th | |||||||||||||||
1976 |
Joest Racing Kremer Racing |
Porsche Carrera RSR Porsche 908 Porsche 934 |
MUG | VAL | ONLY | MON | SIL | IMO | ONLY | ZEL | BY | WAT | MOS | DIJ | DIJ | SAL | ||||||
4th | 1 | 3 | 3 | DNF | 8th | 4th | 2 | |||||||||||||||
1977 |
Kremer Racing Joest Racing GVEA Schiller Racing |
Porsche 935 Porsche 908 Porsche 934 |
DAY | MUG | DIJ | MON | SIL | ONLY | VAL | BY | WAT | EST | LEC | MOS | IMO | SAL | BRH | HOK | VAL | |||
3 | DNF | DNF | 8th | 7th | 3 | DNF | ||||||||||||||||
1978 |
Konrad Motorsport Joest Racing Porsche |
Porsche 935 Porsche 936 |
DAY | SEB | MUG | VALLEY | DIJ | SIL | ONLY | LEM | MIS | DAY | WAT | VAL | ROD | |||||||
13 | 2 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
1979 | Joest Racing | Porsche 935 Porsche 908 |
DAY | SEB | MUG | VALLEY | DIJ | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | BY | DAY | WAT | SPA | BRH | ROA | VAL | ELS | |||
46 | 1 | DNF | 1 | DNF | ||||||||||||||||||
1980 | Joest Racing | Porsche 935 Porsche 908 |
DAY | BRH | SEB | MUG | MON | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | DAY | WAT | SPA | MOS | ROA | VAL | DIJ | ||||
1 | DNF | 2 | DNF | |||||||||||||||||||
1981 | Reinhold Joest Joest Racing |
Porsche 908 | DAY | SEB | MUG | MON | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | BY | DAY | WAT | SPA | MOS | ROA | BRH | |||||
DNF | 2 | DNF |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives, Federal President's Office, Sports Awards: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the World and European Champions 1977/78, Aktz. BArch B 122 / ...
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Joest, Reinhold |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing driver and team boss |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1937 |