Grosser Preis F2 von Deutschland
Nürburgring, 3 Aug 1969
Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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5 | Henri Pescarolo | Matra MS7 [06] - Cosworth FVA #26 Matra Sports |
14 | ||||||
6 | Richard Attwood | Brabham BT30 [5] - Cosworth FVA #29 Frank Williams Racing Cars (see note 1) |
13 | ||||||
7 | Kurt Ahrens | Brabham BT30 [1] - Cosworth FVA #20 Ahrens Racing Team (see note 2) |
13 | ||||||
8 | Rolf Stommelen | Lotus 59B [59-F2-19] - Cosworth FVA #22 Roy Winkelmann Racing (see note 3) |
13 | ||||||
9 | Peter Westbury | Brabham BT30 [3] - Cosworth FVA #31 FIRST Racing (see note 4) |
13 | ||||||
10 | Xavier Perrot | Brabham BT23C [17] - Cosworth FVA #30 Squadra Tartaruga (see note 5) |
13 | ||||||
R | François Cevert | Tecno 68/69/F2 [T00 306] - Cosworth FVA #28 Tecno Racing Team (see note 6) |
10 | retired | |||||
R | Johnny Servoz-Gavin | Matra MS7 [04] - Cosworth FVA #27 Matra International |
7 | retired | |||||
DNS | Dieter Quester | BMW F269 [F2 69-3] - M12 #25 Bayerische Motoren Werke |
Did not start | ||||||
DNS | Hubert Hahne | BMW F269 [F2 69-1] - M12 #23 Bayerische Motoren Werke (see note 7) |
Did not start | ||||||
DNS | Hans Herrmann | Lotus 59B [59-F2-20] - Cosworth FVA #21 Roy Winkelmann Racing (see note 8) |
Did not start | ||||||
DNSC | Gerhard Mitter | BMW F269 [F2 69-2] - M12 #24 Bayerische Motoren Werke |
Did not start (crashed) |
All cars are 1.6-litre F2 unless noted.
Qualifying | |||||
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1 | Johnny Servoz-Gavin | (F2) 1.6-litre Matra MS7 [04] - Cosworth FVA | |||
2 | François Cevert | (F2) 1.6-litre Tecno 68/69/F2 [T00 306] - Cosworth FVA | |||
3 | Henri Pescarolo | (F2) 1.6-litre Matra MS7 [06] - Cosworth FVA | |||
4 | Peter Westbury | (F2) 1.6-litre Brabham BT30 [3] - Cosworth FVA | |||
5 | Kurt Ahrens | (F2) 1.6-litre Brabham BT30 [1] - Cosworth FVA | |||
6 | Richard Attwood | (F2) 1.6-litre Brabham BT30 [5] - Cosworth FVA | |||
7 | Rolf Stommelen | (F2) 1.6-litre Lotus 59B [59-F2-19] - Cosworth FVA | |||
8 | Xavier Perrot | (F2) 1.6-litre Brabham BT23C [17] - Cosworth FVA |
Notes on the cars:
- Brabham BT30 [5] (Richard Attwood): Sold to Frank Williams Racing Cars and entered for Piers Courage and Richard Attwood in F2 in 1969. Then sold to Albert Poon (Hong Kong) and raced by him at the Macau GP in November 1969. Retained by Poon for South East Asian racing in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Reported to have been scrapped.
- Brabham BT30 [1] (Kurt Ahrens): Sold new to Kurt Ahrens (Braunschweig, Germany) and raced in European F2. Sold to Montan Racing Team for 1970 and raced by Werner Lindermann but destroyed by fire prior to the Hockenheim round.
- Lotus 59B [59-F2-19] (Rolf Stommelen): New for 1969, and entered by Roy Winkelmann Racing for Jochen Rindt at Thruxton in April 1969, which the Austrian won. Driven by Alan Rollinson at Hockenheim, and then by Rindt again at Pau, which he also won. Rindt also won at Zolder and Tulln-Langenlebarn, and the car was driven at other races in 1969 by Rollinson, Roy Pike, Rolf Stommelen, and John Miles. According to Richard Spelberg's research, this car was converted to Lotus 69 specification for 1970, as F2.69.4.
- Brabham BT30 [3] (Peter Westbury): New to Peter Westbury and used for a full season of European F2 in 1969, winning at Neubiberg in October. Sold to John Wingfield (London NW11) and used in libre and in selected F2 events in 1970 and 1971. In August 1971, Wingfield acquired a new BT36 and the BT30, still with its Felday-tuned FVA engine, was sold to Jim Charnock (Liverpool) for Formule Libre, starting at Rufforth in early September. Charnock won five races in the closing weeks of the 1971 season, then won three more in 1972, when he was a regular runner at Aintree. He continued with the car in 1973, when he competed at Aintree and in the BRDC Jaybrand Racewear Formule Libre series, and in 1974 and 1975 when he was mainly seen at Aintree. The car is then unknown until it was advertised by dealer Brian Classic (Bucklow Hill, Cheshire) as "chassis number 3" in June 1984. Sold to Chris Mann (UK) 1985 and then sold via Frank Sytner to Ray Delaney (Melbourne, Australia) in 1987. Raced by Delaney in east coast Australian historic events the next six years at Calder Raceway (Vic), Sandown Park (Vic), Oran Park (NSW), Amaroo Park (NSW), Winton Raceway (Vic) and the support races at the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide (SA) in 1988 and 1989. Sold to Dick James in 1993. To Mike Carmody 2003 and sold by him to Tom Lee (Puyallup, WA) October 2005. Restored for 2007 to its original livery.
- Brabham BT23C [17] (Xavier Perrot): New to Jorge Cupeiro to be used in the F2 Argentine Temporada in December 1968. Sold to Xavier Perrot (Zürich, Switzerland) for 1969 and raced in the Swiss championship and in selected F2 races as a Squadra Tartaruga entry. To Kurt Buess (Gelterkinden) for 1970 and raced in hillclimbs in Switerland and France. Note that this is not the car bearing the identity 'BT23C/17' that was imported into New Zealand by Baron Robertson in 1970. Buess was last seen racing this car at Neubiberg 25 Oct 1970. Subsequent history unknown but quite possibly the "BT23C" raced by Heinz Schulthess (Corcelles) at the Gurnigel hill climb in Switzerland in September 1971. Schulthess kept the car for some time, eventually selling it to an unknown Swiss owner. It was acquired by Hans Peter in 2018, and started restoration.
- Tecno 68/69/F2 [T00 306] (François Cevert): Built for the Tecno Racing Team at the end of the 1968 season and first seen as a T car for Clay Regazzoni at Vallelunga in late October. Then taken to Argentine for the F2 Temporada where it was raced by Jo Siffert. It was then François Cevert's regular car during the 1969 F2 season, winning at Reims in June. In early 1970, it was raced by Giancarlo Gagliardi at two events before the Tecno team's third 1970 Tecno was ready. Then sold to Belgian Hervé Bayard in June 1970 for hillclimbs, replacing a F3 Pygmée that he had driven at the start of the season. He retained the Tecno for 1971, but acquired a F2 Chevron B18 to replace it, and then added a F5000 Surtees TS5A to his stable. The Tecno was sold before the end of the season to Daniel Gache (Avignon, Provence), who drove it in at least one hillclimb in October 1971. Retained by Gache for 1972 and used to the end of that season, before being replaced by a newer F2 Pygmée. Subsequent history unknown until acquired by Fred Marquet from a M. Rabanel (Toulon, France) in 1987. Retained by Marquet in 2009.
- BMW F269 [F2 69-1] (Hubert Hahne): The first F269 to appear is called "F2/4" by Autosport at Zolder but it seems evident from later events that it was F2-70-1. it was raced by Gerhard Mitter, Jo Siffert, Dieter Quester and Hubert Hahne before Hahne wrecked in in practice at Enna-Pergusa in August. It was not seen again.
- Lotus 59B [59-F2-20] (Hans Herrmann): One of three Lotus 59Bs built for Roy Winkelmann Racing in F2 in 1969. This was Graham Hill's usual car, winning at Albi in September, but was driven at other races by Roy Pike, John Miles, Hans Herrmann, and Andrea de Adamich. According to Richard Spelberg's research, this car was converted to Lotus 69 specification for 1970, as F2.69.5.
Sources
Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.
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Individual sources for this event
Autosport (8 Aug 1969 pp6-13) gave little coverage to the F2 section in the German GP but did at least have a data page giving all the chassis numbers, including "F2 69-3" for the third BMW.