ADAC-Flugplatzrennen Diepholz

Diepholz, 18 Jul 1971

All cars are 1.6-litre F3 unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. Brabham [BT21] (Carlo Breidenstein): Carlo Breidenstein (Freigericht, Germany) raced a Brabham in Germany national events between May and August 1970 and his car has been identified by the F1 Register as a BT28. However, a photograph on formel3guide.com shows a BT21 or BT21B. Nothing more known.
2. Lotus 69 [71/69-4.F3] (Manfred Mohr): New to Manfred Mohr and raced extensively in European F3 in 1971, using Novamotor engines. Sold to Fabrizio Noè for 1972. Noè had raced a 1971 Lotus 69 in F3 in 1971 but in early 1972 was reported to have sold his car to Fiorenzo Togna and bought Mohr's "monocoque" car to replace it. This suggests Mohr's car had acquired a F2 chassis at some point during 1971. Raced by Noè in Italian F3 in 1972. Subsequent history unknown.
3. March 713S (Hermann Unold): Hermann Unold (Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany) raced a March 713S through the 1971 season as part of the Eifelland Wohnwagenbau team, using a Schntizer BMW engine for at least part of the season. Unold did not continue with Eifelland after 1971, and the fate of his March 713S is not known.
4. Lotus 69 [71/69-9.F3] (Freddy Kottulinsky): New to Freddy Kottulinsky and raced extensively in European F3 in 1971, using Schnitzer BMW engines and entered by Haj-Haj Racing Team. Raced by Günter Kölmel (Achern-Ohnsbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in European F3 in 1972 and 1973, again with BMW engines and entered by Haj-Haj Racing Team. Kölmel raced the car again in F3 in 1974, now using 2-litre BMW engines. Subsequent history unknown.
5. Lotus 69 [71/69.1.F3] (Fabrizio Noè): New to Fabrizio Noè and raced in European F3 in 1971, using Novamotor engines and entered by Squadra Corse Meda. Sold to Fiorenzo Togna for Italian F3 in 1972, entered by Scuderia Como Corse. Sold later in the season to Roberto Manzoni who raced it in Italian F3 using an Alfa Romeo engine. Subsequent history unknown,
6. March 713S (Wilhelm "Willi" Deutsch): Wilhelm "Willi" Deutsch raced a March 713S right through the 1971 season as part of the Eifelland Wohnwagenbau team. Deutsch stayed with Eifelland for 1972. The fate of his March 713S is not known.
7. March 713S [5] (Erwin Derichs): New to Eifelland for Formula 3 and delivered in March 1971. Listed in March records as for "Erwin", so presumably the car raced by Erwin Derichs (Kottenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany) in some German national F3 races in 1971 as part of the Eifelland Caravaning team. According to Manfred Werner, this was then the car of Bernd Rack (Kelkheim, Hesse, West Germany) in 1972 and 1973. Subsequent history unknown.
8. Lotus 69 [71/69-6.F3] (Sigi Hofmann): New to Sigi Hofmann (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) for European Formula 3, using Holbay engines and entered by Schwabengarage AG. It was then sold to Austrian Franz Albert, so will be one of the two Lotus 69s entered in European F3 in 1972 using Albert's Renault engines and driven by Fredy Link and Gerhard Witti. This car was then raced by Albert in Austrian national events in 1973 and 1974, often entered as an "Albert F3".
9. March 703 [6] (Eddie Jacobsson): New to Eddie Jacobsson for F3 in 1970, and delivered with blue bodywork to utilise Jacobsson's own Novamotor engine. Raced by Jacobsson in many races across Europe during 1970. Retained for 1971 and used in a number of 1000cc and 1600cc class events. By the end of the season it had a very standard 1600cc Ford twin cam engine. Subsequent history unknown.
10. March 713M [7?] (Dietmar Flöer): New to Jim Gleave's MRE (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) according to March records but MRE do not run a 713M in 1971. Believed to be the car raced by Dietmar Flöer (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) in European F3 in 1971. Retained for 1972 and for 1973, and reppeared again as late as 1975. Likely to be the "712M" that Flöer raced in a German national F2 race in August 1975, then the March 713M he raced in F3 at Wunstorf in 1976 and Diepholz in 1977, and may even be the F3 Eigenbau he raced at Hockenheim in May 1980. Subsequent history unknown.
11. Lotus 69 [71/69-5.F3] (Harald Ertl): New to Harald Ertl and raced extensively in European F3 in 1971, using Alfa Romeo engines and entered by Weissmann Team Alfa Romeo. It was also raced by Thomas Betzler at two German national races in August. Ertl continued to be entered in the car after that, but did not arrive for any race. Driven by Ertl again at the start of 1972, now with Ford engines and entered by Manfred Weissmann Racing, but he focused on saloon racing that year. Sold to Klaus Scholtyssek (Sprendlingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) for 1973 and used in German national events. Subsequent history unknown.
12. Lotus 69 (Gerold Pankl): Gerold Pankl drove a Lotus 69 in a few European F3 races in the latter half of 1971, fitted with a Schntitzer BMW engine. The first mention of the car was when entered by Bosch Racing Team at Zandvoort in mid-May, but its first known appearance was in a German national race at Diepholz in July. Its final known appearance was at Brands Hatch in October when it was entered by Graf Schönborn and retired early after an accident. Nothing more known.
13. March 713M [1] (Hannelore Werner): New to Eifelland Wohnwagenbau for Hannelore Werner to race in German and European F3 in 1971. To Heinz Lange (Neuburgweiler, Baden-Württemberg) at the end of the season, and used in the Italian F3 series where Lange hired a Brabham BT35 from Scuderia Italia and the 713M was raced by Piergiovanni Tenani, Clois Avigni and "Shangri-Là" (Romano Martini). It may have been raced once by Livio Franzoso in 1973, but apparently retained by Lange that year. Sold to Werner Fischer (Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg) for 1974, then to Biagio Brandi (Bad Homburg, Hesse) in 1978, and then to Marcel Biehl (Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia), who posted pictures of the unrestored car on Facebook in November 2013. Immaculately restored and raced by Biehl in 2015. Sold to former owner Werner Fischer in 2016, and raced by him in the German HRA series in 2017 and 2018.
14. March 703 (Josef Kremer): Josef Kremer (Köln/Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) ran a March 703 in the 1-litre class of German Formula 3 in 1971.
15. March 703 (Peter Krause): Peter Krause (Grefrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) ran a March 703 in the 1-litre class of German Formula 3 in 1971.

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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