Walter Röhrl
 
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 Germany
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| World Rally Championship (WRC) | |||||||||
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| First rally: | Monte Carlo Rally 1973 | ||||||||
| Last rally: | Acropolis Rally 1987 | ||||||||
| Co-driver: |
Jochen Berger (for 14 World Championship runs) Claes Billstam (for 2 World Championship runs) Willi-Peter Pitz (for 5 World Championship runs) Christian Geistdörfer (for 53 World Championship runs) Phil Short (for 1 World Championship run)
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| Team: |
Opel (1973–1977; 1982) Fiat (1977–1980) Porsche (1981) Lancia (1983) Audi (1984–1987) |
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| Vehicle: |
Opel Commodore B Coupé GS / E 2.8 ( Gr. 2 ) Opel Ascona A (Gr. 2) Opel Kadett C Coupé GT / E (Gr. 2 / Gr. 4 ) Fiat 131 Abarth (Gr. 4) Porsche 911 SC (Gr . 4) Opel Ascona 400 (size 4) Lancia Rally 037 ( size B ) Audi quattro (size B) Audi Sport quattro (size B) Audi 200 quattro ( size A ) |
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| Championship title: | 1980 , 1982 | ||||||||
| Points: | 494 | ||||||||
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| DTM | |||||||||
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| First race: | Norisring 1990 | ||||||||
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| 1990–1991 Schmidt Motorsport Technik ( Audi ) | |||||||||
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| Podiums: | 5 | ||||||||
| Overall wins: | - | ||||||||
| Points: | 94 | ||||||||
| Status: December 2011 | |||||||||
Walter Röhrl (born March 7, 1947 in Regensburg ) is a German rally driver . “The Tall One ”, as his nickname is often used in the media , was active as a rally professional between 1973 and 1987 and won two FIA World Drivers' Championships (1980 and 1982) and one European Championship (1974). Parallel to his career as a rally athlete, Röhrl also drove circuit races . His career as a professional racing driver ended at Audi in 1992 , where he had been mainly responsible for development since 1988. The last championship in which he started was the DTM . Walter Röhrl has been a representative and test driver at Porsche since 1993 . He sporadically took part in races for this brand until 1994, and still competes in historical motor racing today.
Walter Röhrl is the only German rally world champion. He has a total of 14 victories in World Rally Championship races, including one with co-driver Jochen Berger , all the others with Christian Geistdörfer . As Röhrl emphasized on various occasions, he regards his four victories in the Monte Carlo Rally as particularly significant personally. He won this on four different makes: 1980 Fiat , 1982 Opel , 1983 Lancia and 1984 Audi .
Origin and private matters
Röhrl grew up as the youngest of three children of a stonemason in Regensburg. The parents separated when Walter Röhrl was ten years old. From then on he lived with his mother. After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Episcopal Ordinariate in Regensburg . When he acquired his driving license at the age of 18, his employer assigned Röhrl to be the driver for the administrative officer Heinrich Zenglein . He worked from Regensburg for the seven dioceses of Bavaria as a legal representative in real estate matters. Because of this activity, the media later liked to call Röhrl - albeit incorrectly - the former "private chauffeur of the Bishop of Regensburg". Röhrl describes his origins in a Catholic and religious environment as defining today, also in the time of his rally career: “[...] I didn't just rely on reason. I am very devout. I prayed a lot under extremely competitive pressure. Sometimes I feel guilty these days because I pray less. Because back then, when I needed help, I prayed more. That's kind of shabby, I guess. I used to have a language rule at rallies: 'You don't have to help me win. Just help me keep nothing from happening to me. ' That's how I prayed when I got on the launch pad. To demand a victory would have seemed outrageous to me. "
Also in the year that Walter Röhrl acquired his driver's license, his brother Michael, who was almost eleven years older than him, suffered a fatal traffic accident with his Porsche 356 . In interviews Röhrl describes his brother to this day as a formative personality of his youth. He promoted his passion for automobiles, while for him, Walter Röhrl, the death of his brother and the resulting emotional state of his mother led to a constant conflict of conscience in the early years of rallying.
Immediately before starting his professional career as a rally driver (1973), Walter Röhrl completed his training as a state-certified ski instructor. In his youth he was a ski racer, but gave up this career due to injury. Through membership in the Regensburg ski club, I became acquainted with Herbert Marecek. This brought Röhrl into rallying, became his first co-driver and organized the financing of rally operations between 1968 and 1970.
Walter Röhrl has been married since 1978 and lives with his wife childless in Sankt Englmar in the Bavarian Forest .
Career
Beginnings (1968 to 1972)
Röhrl's career in rallying - initially as a private driver - began in 1968 when he took part in the Bavaria Rally on a Fiat 850 Coupé . Herbert Marecek was the co-driver. The vehicle retired with a broken alternator bracket, and Röhrl did not take part in any other rallies in 1968 . In 1969 and 1970 Röhrl / Marecek started a total of five rallies. The vehicles used here were a BMW 2002 ti , an Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce and a Porsche 911 S , all of which were used privately. The first and only podium finish in these two years was a third place in the 1970 Rudolf Diesel Rally, a run for the German Rally Championship .
In the 1971 and 1972 seasons Röhrl / Marecek were able to practice the sport semi-professionally , thanks to a commitment in the Ford team of Hamburg-based Ernie Kleint. The regular driver there was Jochi Kleint , the brother of the team manager. As Röhrl reported in an interview, he had been offered a corresponding contract by Ford Motorsport Director Mike Kranefuss , which he, Röhrl, attributed to the persistent urging of his co-driver and unofficial manager Marecek. The driver's fee was 250 DM annually. Röhrl sees this as a career jump because for the first time neither he nor Marecek had to pay for rallying . At Kleint, Röhrl / Marecek completed the German championship season in 1971 on a Ford Capri with participation in eleven races and third place in the championship. Another outstanding success this year was the overall victory at the Wiesbaden Rally , which was part of the German championship as well as the European rally championship . This success was the only victory for the Röhrl / Marecek duo in a rally with an international title. The last event at which Röhrl and Marecek sat together in the cockpit was the Huguenot rally in October 1971.
At Team Kleint the contact between Röhrl and his future co-pilot Jochen Berger was established. Under family pressure, Röhrl announced the end of his rally career after the 1971 season, despite the existing two-year contract with Ford. A short time later he reversed the decision, but was only able to take part in three rallies in 1972. Here Röhrl / Berger won the Baltic Rallye, a run for the German championship, on their Ford Capri. Röhrl describes his participation in the Olympic rally in August 1972 as a personal breakthrough. With co-driver Hannes Rothfuß, he had long led against established drivers like Hannu Mikkola and Jean-Pierre Nicolas before the Capri on a transfer stage, three special stages before the finish line. was stopped by an engine failure.
Profile career rally and circuit (1973 to 1987)
1973 to 1977: Opel won the European championship
From 1973 Röhrl / Berger started for Opel. For Röhrl, who until then had still been an employee of the Episcopal Ordinariate in Regensburg, this marked the beginning of his professional career. He received a monthly salary of 800 DM and was thus able to earn his living as a rally driver for the first time. The Opel vehicles ( Commodore Coupé and Ascona ) were looked after this year by the tuner Irmscher . With the Monte Carlo Rally in January 1973, Röhrl / Berger took part for the first time in a run for the World Rally Championship , which at the time was held exclusively as a brand world championship (without a driver's title). Röhrl did not reach the finish line on his World Cup debut, but was still rated 45th . In the foreground of the 1973 season, however, were the races for the European Rally Championship . Röhrl / Berger won four European championships, all of them with an Opel Ascona. With that, Röhrl finished second in the championship behind Sandro Munari in a Lancia.
In 1974, Opel no longer had Irmscher use its rally vehicles, but instead took it over from Rüsselsheim itself through a works team known as the Opel Euro Dealer Team . Its manager and thus chief of the drivers Walter Röhrl and Rauno Aaltonen was Helle Bein . The Ascona remained the emergency vehicle. Röhrl / Berger competed with him in eleven European Championship races, won six of them and secured the European championship title.
As the reigning European champion, Röhrl went into a season for the first time in 1975 that was focused on participating in the world championship. However, this and the two following seasons turned out to be a time of downright failure due to numerous technical defects. With navigator Jochen Berger Röhrl in 1975 occurred in six World Championship races and retired five times from . At their only finish, the Acropolis Rally 1975, Röhrl / Berger achieved victory with a lead of 35 minutes 42 seconds over the runner-up . This win of a world championship round should remain the only one that Röhrl achieved with copilot Berger, the only one with the Ascona A and the only one with a Group 2 vehicle . The Ascona was replaced by Opel during the 1975 season by the Kadett GT / E , also built according to the Group 2 regulations. Röhrl's career as a circuit racing driver also began in 1975: he and his rally team-mate Aaltonen, also European rally champion (1965), were used as a driver duo in the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race by his employer, Opel . Vehicle was a Opel Manta GT / E . Röhrl / Aaltonen retired with engine failure .
At the 1976 World Cup kick-off, the Monte Carlo Rally, Röhrl / Berger and their Kadett finished fourth, behind three Lancia Stratos HF , the world championship winning car from 1974 to 1976. Röhrl's deficit on the 1976 Monte Carlo winner (Sandro Munari) was 9 minutes and 22 seconds . Since Berger had already taken over the function of the second team manager alongside Helle Bein at this point, he was only available to a limited extent as co-pilot. Of the six world championship races that Röhrl took part in this season, he drove three with Berger, two with Claes Billstam as co-driver and one with Willi-Peter Pitz . The stability of the Opel Kadett turned out to be extremely problematic: In the eleven world championship races that Röhrl competed in between October 1975 and November 1977 with this vehicle, he had only one finish at the aforementioned Monte Carlo Rally in 1976. The unsuccessful event also changed the fact that the Kadett was equipped with a 16 V engine from the 1976 San Remo rally and now complied with Group 4 specifications.
For marketing reasons, the Röhrl, which was already very popular at the time, was used by his employer Opel in five races in Division II of the German Racing Championship (DRM). He drove an Opel Kadett GT / E, which was visually very similar to the rally car. The best results were a seventh place in the DMV Rhein-Pokal race in Hockenheim and an eighth place in the ADAC airfield race in Diepholz , while three failures due to technical defects underscored the Kadett's lack of reliability on the circuit.
In the 1977 season Röhrl competed in five rally world championship rounds and did not reach the finish line in any of them. Röhrl tried to compensate for the continued unsuccessfulness in the Opel works team by occasionally taking part in non-World Cup races in a private Porsche 911 . As he reports, on one of these occasions, the European Championship Rally San Martino di Castrozza, Fiat team boss Daniele Audetto spontaneously offered him to drive a Fiat 131 Abarth . Röhrl completed this rally with his new co-driver Christian Geistdörfer. Until just before the end of the rally, the duo was in third place behind Fiat / Lancia team mates Sandro Munari and Mauro Pregliasco (both Lancia Stratos HF). In his function as a guest starter, Röhrl stopped right before the finish line of the last special stage in order to give Maurizio Verini (Fiat 131 Abarth), who had been behind him, further championship points. Röhrl regards the way in which the audience honored this behavior as a cornerstone for his pronounced popularity in Italy. At the end of the 1977 season, Röhrl competed in a World Championship race with the Opel Kadett ( RAC rally , co-driver Willi-Peter Pitz). He had previously completed two other World Championship races with Fiat. One of them, the Rallye Critérium du Québec (Canada) in September 1977, was the first World Championship round in which Röhrl took part together with his long-time co-driver Christian Geistdörfer. In the lead, Röhrl / Geistdörfer retired with engine failure.
In 1977 Röhrl's circuit activities were limited to participating in the DRM race at the Norisring . Röhrl drove a BMW 2002 Turbo from the Schnitzer team in Division II , with which he started the race from third position on the grid. After 20 of 70 laps he was canceled.
1978 to 1980: Fiat - first world title
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In 1978 and 1979 Röhrl / Geistdörfer competed in the World Rally Championship with the Fiat 131 Abarth. They celebrated their first joint victory in a world championship run at the Acropolis Rally in 1978. Röhrl led Fiat to a double success in this rally, ahead of his team-mate and long-time rival Markku Alén . The same duel continued in the rally Critérium du Québec, which also Röhrl before Alén itself decided . The well-known accident caused by Röhrl at the San Remo Rally also occurred in the 1978 season. Lying in the lead he came off the road, fell down a slope, landed first on the roof of a farmhouse and finally on the courtyard in front of it. Röhrl and Geistdörfer were unharmed. In 1978 Röhrl / Geistdörfer contested the German Rally Championship in a Lancia Stratos. They achieved four victories.
As the best individual result in the 1979 World Cup season, Röhrl / Geistdörfer only achieved second place in the San Remo Rally. In the drivers' world championship, which was held for the first time, Röhrl finished 9th. Remarkable this year was the achievement of the finish line in the rally safari in 8th place despite the badly damaged vehicle. After a collision with a minibus, Röhrl's driver's door was welded shut by the Fiat mechanics. After the collision with a marabou , Röhrl / Geistdörfer drove the rally to an end without a windshield.
In 1980 Röhrl / Geistdörfer competed in a Fiat 131 Abarth in seven rounds of the World Rally Championship. They won four of them and finished second with two others. This made Röhrl driver world champion with 118 points ahead of Hannu Mikkola with only 64 points . As an outstanding personal triumph this year Röhrl evaluates his first victory in the Monte Carlo Rally, which he with a lead of 10:38 minutes over second-placed Bernard Darniche (Lancia Stratos) import . At this year's Rally Portugal, the rivalry between Fiat team-mates Walter Röhrl and Markku Alén reached its climax. To this day, Röhrl accuses Alén of indirectly causing a collision between a Fiat service vehicle and Röhrl's Fiat 131, which ultimately motivated him, Röhrl, to achieve the decisive time advantage under the extremely adverse weather conditions of the Arganil special stage . Röhrl / Geistdörfer's World Championship program was supplemented in 1980 by participating in four races for the German Championship, also on a Fiat 131 Abarth, all of which they won.
In 1979 and 1980, in addition to the World Rally Championship with Fiat, Röhrl also competed in the Brands Hatch Championship for sports cars , where he won the 6 Hours of Brands Hatch in 1980. The emergency vehicle was a Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo , the cockpit of which Röhrl shared mainly with Riccardo Patrese , but also with Michele Alboreto , Eddie Cheever , Giorgio Pianta and Hans Heyer during these two years .
1981: Transitional season at Porsche
Röhrl / Geistdörfer had signed a five-year contract with Mercedes-Benz for 1981 and four other seasons . Ari Vatanen / David Richards were planned as team mates . The emergency vehicle for 1981 and 1982 should be a Mercedes-Benz 500 SL ( roadster with hardtop ) . For the period from 1983 onwards, Mercedes team boss Erich Waxenberger Röhrl had promised the use of a car with a mid-engine and turbocharger that was specially developed for the requirements of Group B , comparable to the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 , for example . As Waxenberger and Röhrl unanimously remember, the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG stopped the rally project a few weeks before the Monte Carlo Rally in 1981 when justified doubts arose about winning the debut rally with the 500 SL . After negotiations, Röhrl received a severance payment of DM 900,000 and was released from his five-year contract .
After several months of waiting, Röhrl / Geistdörfer received a temporary engagement at Porsche. From May 1981 they took part in six rounds of the German Rally Championship with a Porsche 924 Carrera GTS , of which they won four . In addition, Röhrl completed a single WRC round on a Porsche 911 SC , the San Remo Rally. For Röhrl, it ended in second place with an axle shaft damage.
Together with Harald Grohs and Dieter Schornstein , Röhrl started in a Porsche 935 in two rounds of the sports car world championship in 1981 . The trio won the 6 Hours of Silverstone . Röhrl's first start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans also took place in 1981 . Together with Jürgen Barth , Röhrl drove a Porsche 924 Carrera GTP , which had the turbo engine designed for the Porsche 944 . Röhrl / Barth finished seventh in the overall classification.
1982: Opel - second world title
In 1982 Röhrl / Geistdörfer again completed a complete World Championship season, now again at Opel. The former driver competitor Tony Fall was the head of sport there . As a regular driver in the world championship, Röhrl drove an Opel Ascona 400 of the B series . The second vehicle was initially manned by Jochi Kleint, then by Henri Toivonen and, as an exception, with test driver Rauno Aaltonen on the Safari Rally. This year Röhrl and copilot Geistdörfer only competed in rallies with World Championship status. They took part in ten runs, won two of them and took six other podium places . The main competitor this year was Michèle Mouton on an Audi quattro, which Röhrl himself considered to be vastly superior . Mouton achieved three victories, one more than Röhrl . Nevertheless, Röhrl won the world title through Mouton's failure at the Ivory Coast Rally . This made him the last world champion to win this title on a two-wheel drive vehicle.
By winning the Ivory Coast Rally and second place at the Safari Rally, Röhrl won the African Rally Championship in 1982 .
As Tony Fall writes twenty years later, the entire 1982 season was marked by unbridgeable tensions between Röhrl and the Opel team management. The trigger were different views about the participation in promotional activities for the main sponsor Rothmans , without which, as Fall emphasizes, Röhrl's driver fee would not have been paid . The dispute escalated to such an extent that Röhrl no longer competed in the final World Championship round in Great Britain (RAC Rally) after he had won the title and signed a contract with Lancia a short time later.
1983: Vice World Champion in a Lancia
From 1983 onwards, all top teams competed with vehicles from Group B , which had been introduced as the top category above Group 4 the previous year. Röhrl / Geistdörfer drove a Group B Lancia Rally 037 and thus again a rear-wheel drive. Although Röhrl was the reigning title holder, he should only form the number two in the team behind Markku Alén, who was set to win the drivers' championship with co-driver Ilkka Kivimäki. This strategy of team boss Cesare Fiorio did not work. In 1983 Hannu Mikkola was world champion in an Audi quattro ahead of Röhrl in a Lancia. Alén took third place. Lancia became world champion brands. In all six world championship races in which Röhrl participated this year, he achieved a podium finish, three of which were victory (Monte Carlo Rally, Acropolis Rally, New Zealand Rally). Towards the end of the season, Röhrl deliberately refrained from participating in other World Cup races that could have enabled him to defend his title. As a justification, Röhrl states that he did not want to expose himself to the pressure that he felt in his 1982 World Cup. In addition to the World Championship, Röhrl / Geistdörfer completed three races for the German Rally Championship, also in a Lancia Rally 037, of which they won two.
Contrary to the recommendations of copilot Geistdörfer and Röhrl's manager Domingos Piedade, Röhrl signed a contract with Audi for 1984. In the autumn of 1983, Röhrl / Geistdörfer drove the Audi quattro for the first time under competitive conditions at the Cologne-Ahrweiler rally , where it only served as the lead vehicle. Röhrl overturned and could not finish the rally.
1984 to 1987: Audi
Röhrl had to adapt his driving technique until the season opener in 1984 at the Monte Carlo Rally. B. braking with the left. Despite major problems at the beginning, he managed to win the Monte with the Quattro A2. Thereafter Röhrl / Geistdörfer drove the successor model Sport Quattro, which however initially proved to be susceptible to damage in 1984, so that final placements were rare. At Audi, Röhrl / Geistdörfer saw the end of the Group B era (1986) and in the following season drove three more World Championship races in an Audi 200 quattro that was prepared in accordance with the Group A regulations that were now in force .
In 1987 Röhrl set a new record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb for the 19.99 kilometer mountain route to the summit of Pikes Peak . In a 600 hp Audi Sport quattro S1 , he needed 10 minutes and 47.85 seconds for the Pikes Peak Highway, which at that time was still covered with an unpaved road surface . He was the first driver to win on this track with a running time of less than 11 minutes.
After the time in the World Rally Championship (from 1988)
From 1988 Audi no longer took part in rallying at the factory. From then on, Röhrl worked as a test driver for Audi until 1992 and sporadically competed in circuit races in the US series Trans Am (two wins) and IMSA -GTO (one win) as well as in the German Touring Car Championship (one race win).
In his later role as a test driver for Porsche, Röhrl was involved in the development of the Carrera GT super sports car , which was produced from 2003 to 2006. In 2001 Röhrl and co-driver Geistdörfer drove a Porsche 996 GT3 as the lead car of the ADAC Rallye Deutschland, which took place from July 5th to 8th .
Trivia
- Walter Röhrl's first car, which he bought himself at the age of 21, was - like the vehicle of the brother he admired - a Porsche 356.
- Röhrl's highly acclaimed victory at the Rally Portugal in 1980 was largely due to the fact that he won the special Arganil stage in extremely thick fog with a lead of several minutes over the second fastest Björn Waldegård . Occasionally it was rumored that Röhrl had run the test from memory with his eyes closed. In a biography authorized by him, Röhrl revised this myth and attributed his victory to thorough preparation and particularly detailed writing : “We have known for years: Arganil has a lot of fog and low-hanging clouds. We didn't write long straight lines for the fog. Nobody can estimate three hundred meters. We divided the straight lines into small, easily recognizable sections with waypoints such as bushes and trees. [...] I never had the impression that I had done anything crazy in Arganil . "
- In 1980, after Röhrl's first world title, there was a comparison drive with Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi . Fittipaldi won by three seconds in the Formula 1 car, while Röhrl was 28 seconds faster than Fittipaldi in the rally car. According to Röhrl, his height of 1.96 meters was his greatest handicap in a Formula 1 car.
- He attributes his success at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb to his photographic memory . In preparation for the race, he and his wife traveled the course several times .
- Niki Lauda called him "a genius on wheels".
- In the bet that ..? Broadcast on November 4, 1989, Röhrl was challenged to a race by the Austrian speed skater Michael Hadschieff as part of a bet: Hadschieff skated against Röhrl in an Audi Coupé 2.3 20V quattro over a distance of 1500 meters on the Inzell speed skating rink . Röhrl lost with a delay of 0.96 seconds.
- In 1990 Röhrl had a guest appearance in the film Fire, Ice & Dynamite , in which James Bond actor Roger Moore played the leading role.
- Röhrl's column with driving safety tips appeared regularly in the ADAC automobile club's member magazine , ADAC Motorwelt .
- Röhrl is a recognized critic of the development that rally sport has taken from the end of the Group B era to the present day, and regularly expresses his point of view: “Rally has lost a lot of what was once important. It is no longer necessary to take care of the car, to spare the tires, to change gears carefully, to find a tactic, to remember routes. Rally was once a test of man and material for speed, reliability and cleverness. But such complicated things probably only disturb the show today. I really wonder where - apart from giving full throttle - the art should still be today . ” “ […] 320 hp, much better brakes and chassis. In addition, the rallies are completely different: There are only short special stages. The guys have to give full throttle from the first meter. There is no longer any tactic. […] The fan no longer travels, stops at one point and waits for the cars to come by three times. In our time, most of the spectators were smarter [...]. "
- In 2015 Walter Röhrl worked with Marc Lieb on a short film about the new Porsche 911.
statistics
World Rally Championship
Up to and including 1978, no drivers' world championship was held in rallying.
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 |
Porsche System Engineering
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Porsche 924 Carrera GTP |
Jürgen Barth
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Rank 7 and class win | ||
| 1993 |
Le Mans Porsche Team
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Porsche 911S LM GT |
Hans-Joachim Stuck
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 Hurley Haywood
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failure | Engine failure |
Sebring results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 |
Brumo's Porsche
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Porsche 911 Turbo S LM |
Hurley Haywood
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Hans-Joachim Stuck
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Rank 7 and class win | |
| 1994 |
Brumo's Porsche
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Porsche 911 Turbo GT America |
Hurley Haywood
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Hans-Joachim Stuck
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Rank 11 |
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 |
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| 1979 | Lancia | Lancia Beta Montecarlo |
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VALLEY
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| DNF | 18th | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Lancia | Lancia Beta Montecarlo |
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BRH
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SEB
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MUG
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | DNF | 4th | |||||||||||||||
| 1981 |
Joest Racing Porsche |
Porsche 935 Porsche 944 |
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SEB
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MUG
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RIV
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| 1 | 7th | 7th |
German Touring Car Championship
| season | team | vehicle | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | Points | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Schmidt Motorsport Technik | Audi V8 quattro DTM |
ZOL1 |
ZOL2 |
HO11 |
HO12 |
NG11 |
NG12 |
AVU1 |
AVU2 |
MAY1 |
MAY2 |
WUN1 |
WUN2 |
NNO1 |
NNO2 |
NOR1 2 |
NOR2 5 |
THE1 9 |
DIE2 DNF |
NG21 8 |
NG22 1 |
HO21 3 |
HO22 3 |
72 | 11 |
| 1991 | Schmidt Motorsport Technik | Audi V8 quattro DTM |
ZOL1 |
ZOL2 |
HO11 |
HO12 |
NG11 |
NG12 |
AVU1 |
AVU2 |
WUN1 |
WUN2 |
NOR1 |
NOR2 |
THE 1 |
THE 2 |
NG21 |
NG22 |
SIN1 |
SIN2 |
HO21 3 |
HO22 4 |
22nd | 17th |
| 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 | |
Podium placements in other circuit races
- 06/12/1988 - Winner of the TransAm race in Niagara Falls in an Audi 200 quattro
- October 23, 1988 - Winner of the TransAm race in Saint Petersburg in an Audi 200 quattro
- 09/24/1989 - Winner at the IMSA-GTO race in Watkins Glen in an Audi 90 quattro , together with Hans-Joachim Stuck
- June 20/21, 1992 - 3rd place in the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring in a Porsche 911 , together with Hans-Joachim Stuck and Olaf Manthey
Awards
- Big ONS Cup : 1974 together with Jochen Berger, 1980 and 1982 together with Christian Geistdörfer
- In 1980 Walter Röhrl, together with co-driver Christian Geistdörfer, was voted ADAC Motorsportman of the Year . The prize was awarded for the first time this year .
- In France, Walter Röhrl was voted "Rally Driver of the Millennium" by his colleagues in November 2000 .
- In Italy, a jury of 100 motorsport experts from all over the world chose Walter Röhrl as the “best rally driver of all time”.
- In 2011, Röhrl was inducted into the Rally Hall of Fame of the Finnish motorsport association AKK-Motorsport as the fifth member and second non-Scandinavian .
- Bavarian sports award for life's work 2011
- Induction into the Hall of Fame of German Sports
- Induction into the FIA Hall of Fame
literature
- Reinhard Klein, Wilfried Müller, Thomas Senn: Walter Röhrl. Rearview mirror. My career in pictures. Reinhard Klein, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-927458-27-7 .
- Ferdi Kräling, Wilfried Müller: Walter Röhrl. The addiction to perfection. Memories of a world champion. Sportverlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-328-00624-9 .
- Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. Memories of a world champion. Reinhard Klein, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927458-04-X .
- Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift Evo 2. 3., revised and expanded edition. McKlein Publishing, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-927458-57-4 .
DVD editions
- Walter Röhrl - Old School - that's how I drive to the limit , Gelee-Deluxe-Films, Bad Segeberg 2017
- Röhrl's cat: A journey through time through the rally career of the two-time world champion , Helmut Deimel Highspeed Films, Perchtoldsdorf 2011.
- Walter Röhrl: Three decades of motorsport , TWM Agency, Bochum 2006.
- quattro highlights 2: 1983 marathon sprint / 1984 The big double , Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt 2005.
- quattro Highlights 3: 1985 quattro - The New Dimension / 1987 Safari Rallye , Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt 2005.
- quattro highlights 4: 1988 Victory circles / Trans Am Serie / 1989 quattro - Racing in the USA / IMSA GTO , Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt 2005.
- quattro Highlights 5: 1990 DTM / 1991 DTM , Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt 2005.
- Pikes Peak Race to the clouds , Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt o. J.
- Walter Röhrl in the Porsche 911 - Int. ADAC Rallye Köln-Ahrweiler 2004 , Gelee-Deluxe-Films, Bad Segeberg 2004.
- Walter Röhrl at the Nürburgring: AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix in the Porsche 911 S , Gelee-Deluxe-Films, Bad Segeberg 2012.
Web links
- Walter Röhrl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Walter Röhrl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personal website of Walter Röhrl
Individual evidence
- ↑ "And the car will bewitch forever". From: www.autobild.de, accessed on November 18, 2012 .
- ^ "Ex-world champion Röhrl celebrates his 60th birthday". From: www.focus.de, accessed on November 18, 2012 .
- ^ Entry on Walter Röhrl's website, quoted from the Mittelbayerische Zeitung of March 7, 2007. At: www.roehrl-walter.de, accessed on November 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Video portrait of Walter Röhrl. On: www.youtube.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 131.
- ^ "His accidental death was omnipresent: How rally driver Walter Röhrl was shaped by the fate of his older brother". From: www.welt.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Video interview “Zeitzeug Walter Röhrl”. From: www.youtube.com, accessed November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ birthdays. In: Sport-Bild , from March 3, 1993, ISSN 0934-3369 , p. 40.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 6.
- ↑ a b c Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 248.
- ^ DVD edition Röhrls cat , edited by Helmut Deimel Highspeed Films, Perchtoldsdorf 2011. Bonus material, DVD 2.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 14-16.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 20.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 30.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 249.
- ↑ Gustav Büsing, Uwe Mahla: Simply a great time. German racing championship 1972–1985. Gruppe-C-Motorsport-Verlag, Duisburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-928540-63-6 , p. 223.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 68-69.
- ↑ Gustav Büsing, Uwe Mahla: Simply a great time. German racing championship 1972–1985. Gruppe-C-Motorsport-Verlag, Duisburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-928540-63-6 , p. 227.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 250.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 98-99.
- ↑ a b Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 100-101.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 251.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 249-251.
- ↑ Full throttle off. In: Motor Klassik , Issue 12, 2012, pp. 140 ff.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 112.
- ↑ Full throttle off. In: Motor Klassik , Issue 12, 2012, pp. 142–143.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 113.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 251-252.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 127.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, pp. 146-147.
- ↑ a b Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 252.
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 154.
- ↑ "European Rally Championship: Comeback of the Year". (No longer available online.) Www.motorsport2000.de, July 10, 2001, archived from the original on December 19, 2010 ; Retrieved November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ http://www.roehrl-walter.de/neu/publikationen/zeitschriftenartikel/der-husarenritt-von-arganil/index.html
- ^ "ADAC Rallye Deutschland (23-26 August 2012)". From: www.adac.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Interview on BR-alpha , September 21, 2012
- ^ "The god behind the steering wheel", article from March 7, 2007. (No longer available online.) On: www.stern.de, archived from the original on June 16, 2013 ; Retrieved November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Recording of the bet. On: www.youtube.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ^ Walter Röhrl, Wilfried Müller, Reinhard Klein: Aufschrift. 2003, p. 238.
- ↑ It used to be a sport for men. In: Donaukurier , December 28, 2011, p. 27.
- ↑ Porsche passion unites - Porsche Live - Porsche Germany. In: Dr. Ing.hc F. Porsche AG - Porsche Germany. Retrieved August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ "ADAC selects motor sportsman of the year". From: www.adac.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Stefan L'Hermitte, Philippe Joubin: Rally Yearbook 2000-2001. Chronosport et al., Lausanne 2000, ISBN 2-940125-59-7 .
- ↑ Scoring table in Rally-Sprint , 3rd year, issue 1/2
- ^ "New Inductees to Rally Hall of Fame". (No longer available online.) At: www.nesteoilrallyfinland.fi, archived from the original on April 30, 2011 ; Retrieved November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ message 24 05 2016. In: www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Rallye Magazin: With Walter Röhrl: FIA honors the world rally champions. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Röhrl, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rally driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |