Udo Schütz
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Contactor without helmet in the street legal 910
- ↑ Sizes of sea sailing in HSC yacht.de
- ↑ Schütz success at K 2004 with Cormaster Nomex honeycombs ( memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CONTAINER's comeback after a 15-year break ( Memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schütz, Udo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, racing driver and sailor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Selters |