Rolf Stommelen
Nation: | Germany | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | Grand Prix of Germany 1969 | ||||||||
Last start: | US Grand Prix East 1978 | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1969 Lotus · 1970 Brabham · 1971 Surtees · 1972 Eifelland · 1973 Brabham · 1974–1975 Hill · 1976 Brabham , Hesketh · 1978 Arrows | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | World Cup eleventh ( 1970 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 14th | ||||||||
Podiums : | 1 | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | 8 over 30 km |
Rolf Johann Stommelen (born July 11, 1943 in Siegen , † April 24, 1983 in Riverside , California ) was a German sports car and Formula 1 racing driver.
Childhood and youth
Rolf Stommelen's parents owned a car repair shop and a car rental in Cologne-Sülz on Berrenrather Strasse. Stommelen initially wanted to become a car mechanic and then train to become a technical businessman. His father's flourishing company promised him a good future. In school he was considered mediocre, in terms of sport he did not particularly excel.
Stommelen completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the Cologne VW and Porsche dealer Fleischhauer. In 1962 , when he successfully completed his training, his father gave him a used Porsche Super 90 , which Stommelen drove to the Nürburgring . He completed further training as a technical businessman in 1963/64 at Ford-Maletz in Sülz, at the end of which his father gave him a Porsche 904 Carrera GTS .
Monoposto
Stommelen had a serious accident in 1968 in a hill climb on Roßfeld . After his recovery, he also rode in single-seaters . In Formula 2 he only appeared occasionally; in Formula 1, on the other hand, with the exception of 1977 , Stommelen was regularly registered from 1970 to 1978 .
Formula 2
In 1969 there was only one outing by Stommelen with a Formula 2 car. At the Grand Prix of Germany in 1969 , he started for the of Lotus supported Team Roy Winkelmann Racing a Formula 2 Lotus 59B on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring . This race was a run of the Formula 1 World Championship. Because only relatively few Formula 1 cars were registered, the organizers had also approved Formula 2 cars to fill the field for the long distance. The Formula 2 cars drove at the same time as the Formula 1 cars. Stommelen's Lotus caught fire just before the finish line. Stommelen was still able to save the car over the finish line and into the pits, where fire fighters were waiting. He was classified as eighth overall. Stommelen took fourth place in the Formula 2 classification.
In 1970 Stommelen competed in several Formula 2 races. That year he had a cockpit for the German team Eifelland Caravans , a racing team belonging to the Eifelland caravan manufacturer . At that time, Stommelen was already considered a graded driver in Formula 2 because he also competed in Formula 1; he was therefore not credited with any points for the Formula 2 European Championship . For Eifelland, Stommelen initially drove a new March 702 with a Cosworth engine, and later switched to a Brabham BT30 . His best result in a championship run was fourth at the Limborg Grand Prix in Zolder . At the international ADAC Eifel race on the Nürburgring, which was not part of the Formula 2 European Championship, Stommelen finished in third place.
In 1971, Stommelen started twice as the third driver alongside regular drivers Dieter Quester and Hannelore Werner for Eifelland in Formula 2. Stommelen retired from both the ADAC Eifel race and the Mantorp Trophy in Sweden.
From 1972 there were no more Formula 2 starts.
formula 1
With the exception of 1977, Stommelen regularly competed in Formula 1 from 1970 to 1978 . In a few years he had regular places that enabled him to participate in all, but at least most of the world championship races; but in some cases he was only a temporary replacement driver. Stommelen started repeatedly for newly founded teams ( Eifelland , Arrows ) or for racing teams that had just switched from customer team to designer ( Surtees , Hill ).
1970
Stommelen's Formula 1 career began in 1970 . He received a works contract from Brabham as the second driver alongside team founder Jack Brabham . Stommelen was the first German racing driver since Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips to contest a complete Formula 1 season. His commitment was financially supported by Ford's racing manager Jochen Neerpasch , who provided the Brabham team with two Cosworth engines free of charge, and by the German specialist magazine auto motor und sport , which became the name sponsor of the Stommelen car. In his debut season, Stommelen scored ten world championship points; his best placement was third at the Austrian Grand Prix . Stommelen's first year was also his best in Formula 1.
1971
The following year Stommelen moved to the British team Surtees , for which 1971 was the first full season as an independent racing car designer. Stommelen, who drove the second works car alongside team founder John Surtees , was again supported by auto motor und sport this year . Both drivers mostly started with the newly developed TS9 . They drove three world championship points each in the course of the season; each achieved fifth place as the best result of the season. At the end of the season, Stommelen took 20th place in the drivers' championship. The collaboration between Surtees and Stommelen was not without tension. Before the German Grand Prix , Stommelen publicly criticized what he saw as the poor road holding of his TS9, which was worse than the car of his team boss. John Surtees then drove a lap in Stommelen's TS9 at the Nürburgring and, in the presence of the German press, achieved the same time as he had driven his own TS9.
1972
Stommelen contested his third Formula 1 season for the newly founded German team Eifelland Caravans from Mayen . In 1972 , the racing team used the Eifelland-March E21, a proprietary design that combined the chassis and running gear of a conventional March 721 with an individual body by designer Luigi Colani . The body, designed without technical expertise, made the Eifelland “one of the biggest flops in Formula 1 history”. Stommelen drove eight races with the car and crossed the finish line six times, but did not achieve a place in the points. After the Austrian Grand Prix , the team stopped its activities; Stommelen did not find another cockpit in Formula 1 for the rest of the season.
1973
After a break of more than a year, Stommelen returned to Formula 1 in the summer of 1973. Bernie Ecclestone , who had meanwhile taken over the Brabham team, signed him for four races as the third works driver and replacement for Andrea de Adamich , who was not ready for use after a serious accident at the British Grand Prix . Stommelen drove the last three European races of the 1973 season as well as the Canadian Grand Prix . With the exception of the Austrian Grand Prix , where he had to fail for technical reasons, he crossed the finish line, but did not achieve any World Championship points with an eleventh and two twelfth places.
1974
In 1974 Stommelen initially received no Formula 1 cockpit. It was not until August that he was signed by Graham Hill to drive the second car of his own racing team, Embassy Hill, for the last four races of the season. Stommelen replaced Guy Edwards here . He crossed the finish line twice, but again failed to score any world championship points.
1975
For the 1975 season , Stommelen was given a regular place at Graham Hill, whose racing team, after two years as a customer team, was now on the way to becoming an independent designer. In the first races, Stommelen, like team boss Graham Hill, drove last year's Lola T370 , with which he did not score any points in three world championship races . At the 1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Stommelen received the first copy of the newly built Hill GH1 , which was significantly faster than the old Lola. At the Circuit de Montjuïc in Barcelona , the insecurity of which had been criticized by many racing drivers, Stommelen was initially able to take the lead. He led the race for a few laps before the rear wing of his new Hill broke. The GH1 lost traction, moved uncontrollably to the left, hit a guardrail, was thrown back from there and finally flew over the guardrail on the right-hand side of the runway, behind which there were numerous people. Five spectators and marshals died in the accident; Stommelen was seriously injured. After the accident, the race was stopped and Stommelen's compatriot Jochen Mass , who had meanwhile taken the lead, achieved his only Formula 1 victory. A Formula 1 Grand Prix never again took place on the Montjuïc circuit. After a stay of several weeks in hospital, Stommelen returned to the team in August 1975 for the last two European races. At the end of the season he had not scored any world championship points.
1976
In the 1976 season, Stommelen drove for three different racing teams. The British private team RAM Racing registered him for the German Grand Prix , which fielded a Brabham BT44B with a Cosworth engine. Stommelen drove the car with starting number 36 in the first free practice. Then the car was confiscated on behalf of the Swiss racing driver Loris Kessel , who wanted to enforce salary claims against RAM Racing in this way. At short notice, Bernie Ecclestone gave Stommelen the third works Brabham with an Alfa Romeo engine, which was actually intended as a replacement car for the regular drivers Carlos Reutemann and Carlos Pace . Stommelen qualified for position 15 and finished the race in sixth. The world championship point achieved here was the last of his Formula 1 career. Four weeks later, Stommelen started at the Dutch Grand Prix for the British Hesketh team, where he replaced Guy Edwards. He finished twelfth and last, three laps behind. For the Italian Grand Prix , Stommelen returned to the Brabham works team, where he replaced Carlos Reutemann, who had switched to Scuderia Ferrari . Stommelen started from position 11 in Monza. He did not finish the race. On the 12th lap he retired after an engine failure. With one world championship point, Stommelen was in 20th place in the drivers' standings at the end of the year.
1978
After Stommelen had concentrated on the German racing championship in 1977 , he returned to Formula 1 in 1978 with the newly founded British Arrows team. Stommelen contributed to the financing of the racing team. On his mediation, the German brewery Warsteiner became the team's main sponsor. In the first half of the year he regularly crossed the finish line with the Arrows FA1 . From the summer races, however, he failed in the Arrows A1 five times to qualify or pre-qualify. He qualified for the German Grand Prix . He finished the race in 11th place, but was subsequently disqualified because he had left the track for a short time without permission in the early phase of the race. Stommelen's last Formula 1 race was the US East Grand Prix at Watkins Glen , which he finished sixth and last, five laps behind.
GT and sports car races
At Porsche
Rolf Stommelen was closely associated with the vehicles of the German sports car manufacturer Porsche . His first well-known racing car was a Porsche 904 GTS , with which he had his first international outing in May 1965 on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring . The ADAC Hansa Pokal was the first race of the German circuit championship of that year and Stommelen finished it in second place behind Udo Schütz (also with a Porsche 904 GTS). His last start and fatal accident at the 6-hour race at Riverside in 1983 was in a Porsche 935 / 78-81 . In between there were 270 starts in sports car races (the majority of them in Porsche racing cars) with 34 overall and 14 class wins. He finished in the top three 94 times. With these success statistics, Stommelen is one of the most successful sports car drivers in motorsport history and, with eleven overall victories ex aequo, is 13th on the top driver list.
In 1965 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in Christian Poirot's Porsche 904/4 GTS . In 1966 he competed for the Porsche works team for the first time at Le Mans . In 1967 he received his first works contract from Porsche racing director Fritz Huschke von Hanstein and drove in the sports car world championship . The cooperation with the Porsche team management was not always smooth and despite his successes he left at the end of 1969 in strife.
He had his first works outing at the Daytona 24-hour race in 1967 as a partner of Udo Schütz and Gijs van Lennep in the Porsche 906 , where an engine failure forced the team to give up after having driven 170 laps. In May he won the Targa Florio in Sicily with Paul Hawkins in a Porsche 910/8 . Further successes followed: Second place overall at the 500 km race in Mugello in 1967 with Jochen Neerpasch in a Porsche 910 2.2 and overall victory at the Daytona 24-hour race in 1968 with Neerpasch, Vic Elford , Jo Siffert and Hans Herrmann in a Porsche 907 LH 2.2. Jochen Neerpasch was also his partner in second place in the Monza 1000 km race in 1968 . Hans Herrmann was his partner at the Nürburgring (2nd place) and in Spa (3rd place). After another third place in the 24-hour race of Le Mans in 1968 , he ended the season with victory in the 1000 km race in Paris, which is part of the world championship .
In 1969 there was a change in the Porsche team structure. After the end of the Huschke von Hanstein era, the management of the team was in the hands of the technicians Helmuth Bott and Ferdinand Piëch . The race director was Rico Steinemann . Since the beginning of the season, Stommelen had the impression that the team management preferred Jo Siffert and the two British drivers Vic Elford and Richard Attwood to the German drivers (Hans Herrmann, Udo Schütz, Gerhard Mitter , Kurt Ahrens and Stommelen). The conflict escalated before the 1000 km race in Monza , where the Porsche race management closed Stommelen for a race. Although he performed in sport, his contract for work was the only one not renewed at the end of the year (Gerhard Mitter had a fatal accident and Udo Schütz resigned).
The Alfa years
After the end of the collaboration with Porsche, Stommelen switched to Autodelta , the Alfa Romeo works team, in 1970 . In the world championship , the stakes were limited, as Alfa Romeo had problems with the reliability of the 3-liter V12 engine in the Tipo 33 and did not report cars to every world championship race. Stommelen's best result of the season was seventh overall with partner Nanni Galli in the 1000 km race in Monza .
In 1971 Stommelen played a complete world championship for Autodelta. The engine problems were fixed during test drives in the winter months and the Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 was further developed into a victorious sports car prototype. Three world championship races ended in 1971 with overall Alfa Romeo victories, the best place for Stommelen was a second place, which he achieved with his regular partner Nanni Galli at the 12-hour race in Sebring .
In 1972 and 1973 Alfa Romeo did not win the World Championship. In 1974 a factory Alfa-Romeo T33 / TT / 12 won the 1000 km race in Monza with drivers Mario Andretti and Arturo Merzario . It was Autodelta's only win that year. Stommelen achieved second place in the final classification in Monza (with Jacky Ickx ), in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring (with Carlos Reutemann ) and in the 1000 km race in Imola (again with Reutemann). At the end of the season, Alfa Romeo withdrew from the world championship and the contract with Stommelen ended.
Return to Porsche
In 1976 , Stommelen returned to the Porsche works team and won two world championship races , in June together with Jochen Mass in the Porsche 936 at the Coppa Florio and in July as a partner of Manfred Schurti in the Porsche 935 in the 6-hour race in Watkins Glen . He finished the 24-hour race at Le Mans , which was not part of the world championship this year - again with Schurti in the Porsche 935 - in fourth place in the overall standings. In 1977 he won the most important German endurance race, the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring, on the tenth attempt . The success was achieved in a Porsche 935 registered by Georg Loos . Toine Hezemans and Tim Schenken were partners . In 1978 , the works outings were limited to the 24-hour race at Le Mans , where he finished eighth overall with Schurti. He was victorious in another 24-hour race . Together with Hezemans and Peter Gregg , he won the Daytona 24-hour race .
death
On April 24, 1983, Rolf Stommelen had a fatal accident in a Porsche 935, a special IMSA version designed by John Fitzpatrick, at the Riverside 1983 6-hour race at the Riverside International Raceway in California . The choice of the starting driver had fallen on him, his British partner Derek Bell was waiting in the pits for the driver change. As in 1975 in Barcelona, the rear wing of Stommelen's racing car broke, he lost control of the vehicle, which was about 300 km / h at the time, and hit a concrete wall. An hour later, he was found dead at the local clinic.
Jochen Mass was originally invited to Riverside by the Fitzpatrick team. Mass canceled and Stommelen jumped in. His wife Marlene, who usually took part in all races, stayed in Cologne this time. Stommelen had promised her to stop racing at the end of the year.
Rolf Stommelen died at the age of 39 and was buried in the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne . He last lived in Cologne-Hahnwald .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
Complete overview of the Automobile World Championship
season | Team name | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1970 | Auto Motor and Sport | Brabham BT33 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 13 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 10 | 11 |
1971 | Auto Motor and Sport Team Surtees | Surtees TS7 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 20th |
Surtees TS9 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
1972 | Eifel country | Eifelland 21 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - |
1973 | Ceramica Pagnossin Team MRD | Brabham BT42 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - |
1974 | Embassy Racing with Graham Hill | Lola T370 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - |
1975 | Auto Motor and Sport Team Surtees | Lola T370 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - |
Lola T371 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Hill GH1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
1976 | RAM Racing | Brabham BT44B | Cosworth DFV V8 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 20th |
Brabham | Brabham BT45 | Alfa Romeo 1260 V12 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Hesketh | Hesketh 308D | Cosworth DFV V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1978 | Arrows | Arrows FA1 | Cosworth DFV V8 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - |
Arrows A1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 |
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1969 | ||||||||||||||||
8th | ||||||||||||||||
1970 | ||||||||||||||||
DNF | DNF | DNQ | 5 | DNQ | 7th | DNS | 5 | 3 | 5 | DNF | 12 | DNF | ||||
1971 | ||||||||||||||||
12 | DNF | 6th | DSQ | 11 | 5 | 10 | 7th | DNS | DNF | |||||||
1972 | ||||||||||||||||
13 | DNF | 10 | 11 | 16 | 10 | DNF | 15th | |||||||||
1973 | ||||||||||||||||
11 | DNF | 12 | 12 | |||||||||||||
1974 | ||||||||||||||||
DNF | DNF | 11 | 12 | |||||||||||||
1975 | ||||||||||||||||
13 | 14th | 7th | DNF | 16 | DNF | |||||||||||
1976 | ||||||||||||||||
6th | 12 | DNF | ||||||||||||||
1978 | ||||||||||||||||
9 | 9 | DNF | DNF | 14th | 14th | 15th | DNQ | DSQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | 16 | DNPQ |
Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1965 | Christian Poirot | Porsche 904/4 GTS | Christian Poirot | failure | Gearbox damage | |
1966 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 906/6 Carrera 6 | Günter Klass | Rank 7 and class win | ||
1967 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 910/6 | Jochen Neerpasch | Rank 6 | ||
1968 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 908 | Jochen Neerpasch | 3rd place and class win | ||
1969 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 917 | Kurt Ahrens | failure | Oil leak | |
1970 | Autodelta SpA | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Nanni Galli | Disqualified | ||
1972 | Autodelta SpA | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Nanni Galli | failure | Gearbox damage | |
1976 | Martini Racing Porsche Systems | Porsche 935 | Manfred Schurti | 4th place and class win | ||
1977 | Martini Racing Porsche Systems | Porsche 935/77 | Manfred Schurti | failure | Engine failure | |
1978 | Martini Racing Porsche Systems | Porsche 935/78 | Manfred Schurti | Rank 8 | ||
1979 | Dick Barbour Racing | Porsche 935 / 77A | Paul Newman | Dick Barbour | Rank 2 | |
1980 | Gozzy Kremer Racing | Porsche 935K3 | Axel Plankenhorn | Tetsu Ikuzawa | failure | Cylinder overheated |
1982 | Martini Racing | Lancia LC1 | Teo Fabi | Michele Alboreto | failure | Engine failure |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1967 | Porsche car | Porsche 906 | Udo Schütz | Gijs van Lennep | failure | accident |
1968 | Porsche Automobile Co. | Porsche 907 2.2 | Gerhard Mitter | failure | Connecting rod damage | |
1969 | Porsche System Engineering Ltd. | Porsche 908/02 | Joe Buzzetta | Kurt Ahrens | Rank 3 | |
1970 | Autodelta SPA | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Nanni Galli | Rank 9 | ||
1971 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Nanni Galli | Rank 2 and class win | ||
1972 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3 | Peter Revson | failure | Clutch damage | |
1978 | Dick Barbour performance | Porsche 935 / 77A | Dick Barbour | Manfred Schurti | failure | suspension |
1979 | Dick Barbour Racing | Porsche 935 / 77A | Dick Barbour | Rick Mears | Rank 4 | |
1981 | Andial Masters Racing | Porsche 935M16 | Howard master | Harald Grohs | Rank 4 |
1000 km race on the Nürburgring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1966 | Friedhelm Theisen | Lotus Elan | Friedhelm Theisen | failure | Bearing damage | |
1967 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 910 | Kurt Ahrens Jr. | failure | Valve damage | |
1968 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 907 | Hans Herrmann | Rank 2 | ||
1969 | Porsche System Engineering | Porsche 908 | Hans Herrmann | Rank 2 | ||
1970 | Autodelta SPA | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Piers Courage | failure | Shock absorbers | |
1971 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / 3 | Nanni Galli | failure | engine | |
1972 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3 | Vic Elford | Rank 11 | ||
1973 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 | Dick Barbour | Andrea de Adamich | failure | coupling |
1974 | Autodelta Spa | Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 | Carlos Reutemann | Rank 2 | ||
1976 | Martini Racing Team | Porsche 935 | Manfred Schurti | disqu., unauthorized help | ||
1977 | Gelo Racing Team | Porsche 935 | Tim donation | Toine Hezemans | Overall victory | |
1978 | Toyota Germany | Toyota Celica Turbo | Harald Ertl | failure | water pump | |
1979 | Joest Racing | Porsche 935/77 A | Volkert Merl | Derek Bell | failure | |
1980 | Joest Racing | Porsche 908/3 Turbo | Jürgen Barth | Overall victory | ||
1982 | Jean Rondeau | Rondeau M382 | Henri Pescarolo | Rank 2 and class win |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
literature
- Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch: Racing driver death - 50 tragic heroes in portrait. Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 2012, pp. 142-145, ISBN 978-3-86852-494-9
- Ferdi Krähling, Gregor Messer: Sieg or Selters. The German drivers in Formula 1. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 2013, pp. 46-51, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9
- Michael Behrndt, Erich Kahnt, Ferdi Kräling: The Rolf: Rolf Stommelen - racing driver for all occasions. Petrolpics-Verlag, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-940306-24-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics of the German Grand Prix on the website www.formula2.net ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 3, 2018).
- ↑ a b Ferdinando Krähling, Gregor diameter: win or soda. The German drivers in Formula 1. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9 , p. 47.
- ^ Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 508.
- ↑ Heinz Prüller: Bang and Fall . In: auto motor und sport . Issue 6/1987, p. 266.
- ↑ ADAC Hansa Cup 1965
- ↑ 1967 Daytona 24 Hours
- ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969
- ↑ Coppa Florio 1976
- ↑ 1976 Watkins Glen 6-hour race
- ↑ 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1977
- ↑ The Riverside Disaster. In: welt.de . April 23, 2013, accessed September 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Oliver Reuter: Marlene Stommelen: "Rolf was invulnerable to me". In: Express , April 22, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rolf Stommelen
- ↑ Grave site of the racing driver Rolf Stommelen in the Melatenfriedhof . In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. (Accessed July 17, 2020)
- ↑ Susanne Hengesbach: He's not afraid of getting older. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , September 23, 2002. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stommelen, Rolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stommelen, Rolf Johann (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Formula 1 racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1983 |
Place of death | Riverside , California |