Willi Heeks

Willi Heeks

Nation:	Germany
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1953 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1952  Willi Heeks 1953 Willi Heeks
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Willi Heeks (born February 13, 1922 in Moorlage ; † August 13, 1996 in Bocholt ) was a German automobile racing driver .

Career

Willi Heeks started motorsport shortly after the Second World War . In 1950 he celebrated his first successes with a Formula 2 racing car from AFM . He won the May Cup in Hockenheim and won a Formula 2 race in Dessau. In 1951 he reached third place in the Eifel race at the Nürburgring .

Heeks was one of the German racing drivers of the early 1950s who drove their races almost exclusively in their home country. When the international motorsport circus returned to Germany and a German Grand Prix was held for the first time , Heeks was there too. He made his debut in the drivers' world championship in 1952 when he raced at the Nürburgring with an AFM U8. As in 1953, when he contested the race with a Veritas Meteor, he had to give up the Grand Prix prematurely. He showed that Heeks was a good racing driver in 1953 when he was in a Ferrari 500 on the Nordschleife for a long time in front of top French driver Louis Rosier .

Heeks drove car racing until the late 1950s, but moved his activities to touring cars . In long-distance races, his compatriot Erwin Bauer was usually his partner, as in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring , which the two contested with a Mercedes-Benz 220S .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1952	Willi Heeks	AFM 8	BMW 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	Willi Heeks	Veritas Meteor	Veritas 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1952
						DNF
1953
							DNF

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	WD	withdrawn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

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5
1956	Erwin Bauer	Mercedes-Benz 220	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
						DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, London 2003, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Willi Heeks at Racing Sports Cars