Udo Schütz

The Porsche 910 with which Schütz competed in the 1967 Targa Florio together with Umberto Maglioli

Udo Schütz (born January 11, 1937 in Selters ) is a former German automobile racing driver , sailor and today's entrepreneur.

Career

Schütz began his racing career in the early 1960s. He had his first successes with a Porsche 904 and was soon hired by Porsche for works outings. In 1967 he won the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring with Joe Buzzetta in a Porsche 910 and in 1969 with Gerhard Mitter in a Porsche 908/2 the Targa Florio . Schütz won a total of 50 races and the German Sports Car Championship in 1966, and he also helped Porsche win the 1969 World Endurance Championship. The relatively heavy and tall Schütz, also known as the “Selters Bull”, was, however, rather unsuitable for the flat racing cars, especially when the cars were closed. Even without a helmet, his head protruded beyond the windshield during training trips to the 1967 Targa Florio in the Porsche 910 with the number 184, which is now in the Porsche Museum.

When 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1969 he had an accident after 199 laps in the 908 long-tail after a collision with the Porsche 917 of Gérard Larrousse at high speed hard was thrown at the rollover out of the car, but only slightly injured. Since Gerhard Mitter had a fatal accident during training for the German Grand Prix, Schütz retired from racing. He stuck to his decision even when Scuderia Ferrari was looking for suitable drivers for the Ferrari 512S in 1970 .

Schütz concentrated on the Schütz-Werke in their native Selters (Westerwald) , a nationally important supplier of containers. "Container" was also the name of his racing yacht, which won the Admiral's Cup for Germany in 1993 together with Pinta and Rubin XII . In 2008, Schütz had another "container" built using the most modern materials.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1966	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 906/6 Carrera 6 long tail	Peter de Klerk	Rank 6
1967	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 910	Joe Buzzetta	failure	Engine failure
1969	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 908 long tail	Gerhard Mitter	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1966	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 904 GTS	Dieter Glemser		failure	Gearbox damage
1967	Porsche car	Porsche 906	Rolf Stommelen	Gijs van Lennep	failure	accident
1969	Porsche System Engineering Ltd.	Porsche 908/02	Gerhard Mitter		Rank 5

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
1964	Udo Schütz Scuderia Filipinetti	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
										12			14th
1965	Anton Fischhaber Udo Schütz Scuderia Lufthansa	Porsche 904 Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
											11		8th							DNF
1966	Porsche Gerhard Koch Scuderia Lufthansa Abarth	Porsche 904 Porsche 906 Abarth 1300 SP	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
			8th	DNF	DNF		DNF	DNF	6th			4th		34	3
1967	Porsche Scuderia Lufthansa Abarth Switzerland	Porsche 906 Porsche 910 Fiat-Abarth 1000	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
			DNF	DNF	8th		DNF	1	DNF		1	11		DNF	70
1968	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			5		DNF		DNF	7th
1969	Porsche	Porsche 908 Porsche 917	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			24	5	3	DNF	1	DNF	31	DNF

Web links

Commons : Udo Schütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Udo Schütz at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schütz, next to Gerhard Mitter junior, towering over the roll bar of a Porsche 908, at the Solitude Revival 2008 Udo Schütz and Gerhard Mitter Junior
2. ↑ Contactor without helmet in the street legal 910
3. ↑ Sizes of sea sailing in HSC yacht.de
4. ↑ Schütz success at K 2004 with Cormaster Nomex honeycombs ( memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ CONTAINER's comeback after a 15-year break ( Memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )