Rolf Stommelen

Rolf Stommelen

Nation:	Germany
Automobile world championship
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 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 54 - - -
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

The typical basic design of Rolf Stommelen's helmet from 1971/72

Rolf Stommelen in the Formula 2 Brabham during training for the Eifel race in 1970

Stommelen's Eifelland March E21

Winner of the 6 hours on the Nürburgring 1972: Stommelen, Heyer, Fitzpatrick in the Schnitzer BMW

1974 in the Alfa Romeo 33TT12 in the south bend of the Nürburgring

Stommelen in the Brabham factory at the 1976 German Grand Prix

Stommelen in the Porsche 935 1977 at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring

Family grave in the Melaten cemetery

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.
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
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
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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
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
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
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

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1965	Rolf Stommelen Christian Poirot	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
													6th	DNF			7th		9
1966	Friedhelm Thiessen Porsche Rolf Stommelen Abarth	Lotus Elite Porsche 906 Porsche 904 Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
								DNF	7th				DNF	DNF
1967	Porsche Jochen Rindt	Porsche 906 Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
			DNF	DNF	DNF		1	DNF	6th		2			10	2
1968	Porsche	Porsche 907 Porsche 908	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			1	DNF		2	18th	2	3			3
1969	Porsche Siegfried Lang	Porsche 908 Porsche 917	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			DNF	3	6th	DNF	3	4th	2	DNF
1970	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
				9		7th			DNF	DNF		DNF
1971	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			3		2	16	4th		DNF	DNF		3	DNF
1972	Autodelta Dieter Quester	Alfa Romeo T33 Chevron B21	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			DNF	DNF	DNF	3			DNF	11	DNF	5
1973	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
								DNF	DNF		DNF
1974	Autodelta Gelo Racing	Alfa Romeo T33 Porsche Carrera RSR	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
			2		2	2		DNF		5		6th
1976	Gelo Racing Porsche Jörg Obermoser	Porsche 934 Porsche 936 Porsche 935 TOJ SC304	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
			6th		5				DNF		1	1		3	DNF
1977	Porsche Jörg Obermoser Gelo Racing	Porsche 935 TOJ SC302	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
				1	9	DNF	3	1										11
1978	Brumos Porsche Barbour Racing Toyota Germany Porsche	Porsche 935 Toyota Celica	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
			1	DNF					DNF	8th			2
1979	Joest Porsche Barbour Racing	Porsche 935	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	BRH	ROA	VAL	ELS
			46	4th				6th		5	2			2
1980	Joest Racing Kremer Racing	Porsche 935 Porsche 908	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
			1							1	DNF
1981	Andial Racing	Porsche 935	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
			DNF	4th			DNF								1	1
1982	Kremer Racing Automobiles Rondeau Lancia	Porsche 935 Rondeau M382 Lancia LC1 Porsche CK5	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	MUG	FUJ	BRH
			2		2	DNF	DNF
1983	Joest Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	FUJ	KYA
			3

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

Commons : Rolf Stommelen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fansite with information and photos
• Rolf Stommelen at racing sports cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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).
2. ↑ ^{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.
3. ^ Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 508.
4. ↑ Heinz Prüller: Bang and Fall . In: auto motor und sport . Issue 6/1987, p. 266.
5. ↑ ADAC Hansa Cup 1965
6. ↑ 1967 Daytona 24 Hours
7. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969
8. ↑ Coppa Florio 1976
9. ↑ 1976 Watkins Glen 6-hour race
10. ↑ 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1977
11. ↑ The Riverside Disaster. In: welt.de . April 23, 2013, accessed September 2, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Oliver Reuter: Marlene Stommelen: "Rolf was invulnerable to me". In: Express , April 22, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
13. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rolf Stommelen
14. ↑ Grave site of the racing driver Rolf Stommelen in the Melatenfriedhof . In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. (Accessed July 17, 2020)
15. ↑ Susanne Hengesbach: He's not afraid of getting older. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , September 23, 2002. Retrieved October 31, 2019.