Wolfgang Seidel (racing driver)
Nation: | BR Germany | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1953 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1962 British Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1953 Veritas 1958 Maserati 1958, 1960 Cooper 1961 Lotus 1962 Emeryson Cars 1962 Lotus | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
Podiums : | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | - |
Wolfgang Seidel (born July 4, 1926 in Dresden , † March 1, 1987 in Munich ) was a German automobile racing driver who mainly drove sports car races and also started in Formula 1 on a case-by-case basis .
Career
Wolfgang Seidel was a trained businessman. His motorsport career began in 1950 with the Internationale Rheinlandfahrt. In the following three years he drove sports car races in a Veritas RS , with which he and Josef Peters finished fifth in the overall classification at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1953 and in the same year he contested the German Grand Prix, which he ranked 16th finished.
formula 1
Seidel competed in ten races for the drivers' world championship and drove such different makes as the Maserati 250F , the Lotus 18 , the Lotus 24 and the Cooper models T45 and T43 . The best placing he achieved was ninth at the Italian Grand Prix in 1960. His last Grand Prix was the 1962 British Grand Prix in Aintree .
Sports car
Seidel celebrated his greatest successes as a sports car driver. At the Sebring 12-hour race in 1958 , he and Harry Schell finished third in the overall standings and won the sports car with a capacity of up to 2 liters (various sources also state that Jean Behra was the second driver). In 1959, he and Edgar Barth won the Targa Florio in a Porsche 718 RSK . Between 1955 and 1960 Seidel competed five times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . He only crossed the finish line in 1955 and 1960, when he and Edgar Barth finished eleventh overall. In 1955 he even achieved fifth place overall, which he shared with Olivier Gendebien in the Porsche of the Equipe Nationale Belge.
Revocation of the license
In 1962, the ONS Seidel withdrew his racing license after he had publicly criticized the sports authorities and the AvD as the organizer of the German Grand Prix. This was preceded by the fact that Seidel was not allowed to compete in the 1962 German Grand Prix because, instead of the at least five training laps required by the regulations at the time, he had only completed four training laps on the Nordschleife due to a technical defect. After the criticism, the AvD withdrew his membership and the ONS imposed a lifelong ban, which was however corrected to two years. By participating in a race in Mexico that was not part of the world championship, despite the ban, Seidel wanted his case to be heard by the FIA's international sports court, which it did not. As a result, and because he feared that he would lose touch with the level of performance of his competitors in two years, he ended his motorsport career and worked from then on as a car salesman.
Private
During his time as a racing driver, Wolfgang Seidel lived in Düsseldorf. He died of heart failure on March 1, 1987 in a Munich hospital.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1953 | Wolfgang Seidel | Veritas RS | Veritas 2.0 L6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
1958 | Scuderia Centro Sud | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
Rob Walker Racing Team | Cooper T43 | Climax 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1960 | Wolfgang Seidel | Cooper T45 | Climax 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
1961 | Scuderia Colonia | Lotus 18 | Climax 1.5 L4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
1962 | Ecurie Maarsbergen | Emeryson 1006 | Climax 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel | Lotus 24 | BRM 1.5 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
total | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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1953 | |||||||||||
16 | |||||||||||
1958 | |||||||||||
DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||||||
1960 | |||||||||||
9 | |||||||||||
1961 | |||||||||||
DNS | 17th | DNF | DNF | ||||||||
1962 | |||||||||||
NC | DNF | DNQ |
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 | placement | Failure reason |
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1955 | Equipe Nationale Belge | Porsche 550 / 4RS 1500 Spyder | Olivier Gendebien | Rank 5 | |
1957 | Wolfgang Seidel | DKW Monza Coupé | Heinz Meier | failure | Engine failure |
1958 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 250TR 58 | Wolfgang von Trips | failure | accident |
1959 | Porsche KG | Porsche 718 RSK | Edgar Barth | failure | Gearbox damage |
1960 | Porsche KG | Porsche 718 RS60 | Edgar Barth | Rank 11 |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1958 | Porsche KG | Porsche 718 RSK | Harry Schell | 3rd place and class win |
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 |
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1953 | Wolfgang Seidel | Veritas Comet RS | SEB | MIM | LEM | SPA | ONLY | RTT | CAP | ||||||||
5 | |||||||||||||||||
1955 |
Porsche Equipe National Belge |
Porsche 550 | BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | TAR | |||||||||
8th | 5 | 12 | |||||||||||||||
1956 | Wolfgang Seidel |
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Porsche 550 |
BUA | SEB | MIM | ONLY | KRI | ||||||||||
7th | DNF | 11 | |||||||||||||||
1957 | Wolfgang Seidel Scuderia Ferrari |
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL DKW 3 = 6 Monza Ferrari 250TR |
BUA | SEB | MIM | ONLY | LEM | KRI | CAR | ||||||||
DNF | 21st | DNF | DNF | 3 | |||||||||||||
1958 | John von Neumann Porsche Scuderia Ferrari |
Ferrari 250TR Porsche 718 RSK |
BUA | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | RTT | |||||||||
DNF | 3 | DNF | 5 | DNF | |||||||||||||
1959 | Porsche | Porsche 718 RSK | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | RTT | ||||||||||
1 | DNF | DNF | |||||||||||||||
1960 | Wolfgang Seidel Porsche |
Porsche 718 RSK | BUA | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | ||||||||||
DNF | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
1962 |
Peter Nöcker Wolfgang Seidel |
Ferrari 250 GT Fiat-Abarth 700 |
DAY | SEB | SEB | MAY | TAR | BER | ONLY | LEM | TAV | CCA | RTT | ONLY | BRI | BRI | PAR |
10 | 5 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: German racing drivers. Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-042-2
- ↑ Anger at noon . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1962 ( online ).
- ↑ Program for the Grand Prix of Europe 1961, page 40
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seidel, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German automobile racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1987 |
Place of death | Munich |