Harald Grohs
Appearance
Harald Grohs (born 1944) is a racing driver and team owner from Essen, Germany.
Grohs took part in more than 50 24 Hours endurance racing races, mainly 24 Hours of Le Mans and 24 Hours Nürburgring.
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Career as driver
[edit]- 1973 first races in a Porsche 911, four wins, invited to race BMW for Team Faltz
- 1974 German Renault 5 Cup, 6 wins, 2nd in championship
- 1975 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM) for BMW for Team Faltz, first wins, but also a bad crash on the Nürburgring, wins 9 Hours of Kyalami with Jody Scheckter
- 1976 International races for BMW, with Hans-Joachim Stuck, Ronnie Peterson, Gunnar Nilsson, Jody Scheckter, John Fitzpatrick. "Only Stuck and Petersson were a little faster, but partnered with Petersson, we could never finish a race."
- 1977 National DRM races with an FIA-Group 5-spec BMW 320, against the "BMW-Junior-Teams"
- 1978 Worst crash of his career, rolling seven times on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, escaping injured, but shocked
- 1997 retires from Porsche Carrera Cup and other circuit racing, except occasional starts on the old Nürburgring
- 1999 Another entry in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, his 50th "marathon" overall
Career as team owner
[edit]- 1997 Grohs Motorsport founded
Racing record
[edit]Complete World Sportscar Championship results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
- Footnotes
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
[edit]Complete European Formula Two Championship results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | URD Rennwagenbau | March 792 | Hart | THR | HOC Ret |
NÜR | VAL | PAU | SIL | ZOL | MUG | ZAN | PER | MIS | HOC | NC | 0 |
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Pos. | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | BMW Team Isert | BMW 318is | ZOL 1 19 |
ZOL 2 8 |
SPA 1 8 |
SPA 2 8 |
ÖST 1 18 |
ÖST 2 11 |
HOC 1 Ret |
HOC 2 DNS |
NÜR 1 19 |
NÜR 2 20 |
SAL 1 |
SAL 2 |
AVU 1 |
AVU 2 |
NÜR 1 |
NÜR 2 |
19th | 94 |
References
[edit]- ^ "All Results of Harald Grohs". racingsportscars.com. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1944 births
- Living people
- German racing drivers
- 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
- 24 Hours of Daytona drivers
- Racing drivers from North Rhine-Westphalia
- Porsche Supercup drivers
- World Sportscar Championship drivers
- Long Distance Series drivers
- Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
- BMW M drivers
- Team Joest drivers
- Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers
- Sportspeople from Essen