Winfried Vogt
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 Germany
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| First race: | Zolder I 1984 | ||||||||
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| 1984, 1985, 1988 Linder (all BMW ) | |||||||||
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| Podiums: | 7th | ||||||||
| Overall wins: | - | ||||||||
| Points: | 229.5 | ||||||||
Winfried Vogt , known as Winni Vogt , (born March 13, 1945 in Waldshut-Tiengen , OT Tiengen, † May 18, 1989 ibid) was a German touring car and hill climb driver . During his career he became German mountain champion in 1973 and European touring car champion in 1987 .
Life
Vogt, who has been known almost everywhere as "Winni" since the beginning of his racing career in 1968, drove several class wins in a matte black DKW Junior with approx. 85 hp at his first starts in southern German hillclimbing races , already at his first start on Schauinsland came second.
From 1970 he switched to NSU 1000 TTS and in 1973 won the title of German Mountain Champion. When the class switched to the Formula Super Vee racing cars, further successes were limited, at least the expenses could be covered by prize money.
He paused from 1975 to 1977 in order to then drive a race in a VW Polo from the Bickel racing team in Mainz-Finthen. His team boss Körber wanted to deduct 100 DM from his fee of 1000 DM for every further rank below the first - Vogt won the race confidently.
In 1978 Vogt started in a BMW 320 in the German racing championship , but could not score any points in two races. He competed for the Cavallo-Matras team with the same car for a whole season. He scored eight points in ten races and was 29th overall. In 1980 Vogt switched to a Toyota Celica with a 16-valve engine used by Team Postert Toyota , but the brand change did not lead to any major success.
As in 1984 , the German Touring Car Championship was founded, won Vogt with one of Linder racing used BMW 323i two victories and was awarded 146.5 points in fourth; Without the deletion results he would even have become runner-up. In 1985 Vogt started his second DTM season again for Linder. Despite a win, he couldn't match his previous year's performance and ended up tenth. In 1988 Vogt competed again for Linder in a BMW M3 on a racing weekend in the DTM.
He contested several starts in the World Touring Car Championship with F1 drivers Christian Danner and Mark Thatcher until he switched to the BMW works team in 1987 and took part in the European Touring Car Championship, which he won that same year.
Vogt fell ill with cancer and his health deteriorated increasingly; Nevertheless, he continued to drive for the BMW works team until the end of the 1988 season and succumbed to a serious illness in spring 1989.
Trivia
At the DTM touring car revival in Hockenheim in June 2011, u. a. Vogt's originally restored BMW 325i Gr.A, with which he contested the 1986 European Touring Car Championship.
Web links
- DTM statistics at motorsport-total.com
- Careers in the Diver Database
- Obituary for the 20th anniversary of death in the Südkurier
- Interview with Winni Vogt at the "Kalter Wangen" hill climb in 1987
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| SURNAME | Vogt, Winfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogt, Winni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German automobile mountain and circuit driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiengen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1989 |
| Place of death | Tiengen |