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Gerhard Mitter

German racing driver (1935{{ndash}}1969)

Field	Value
name	Gerhard Mitter
image	MitterGerhard1968.jpg
caption	Mitter in 1968
nationality	DEU German
birth_date
birth_place	Krásná Lípa, Czechoslovakia
death_date
death_place	Nürburgring Circuit, Germany
years	–,
teams	Lotus (incl. non-works), BMW, non-works Brabham, non-works Porsche
races	7 (5 starts)
championships	0
wins	0
podiums	0
points	3
poles	0
fastest_laps	0
first_race	1963 Dutch Grand Prix
last_race	1969 German Grand Prix

Gerhard Karl Mitter (30 August 1935 – 1 August 1969) was a German Formula One and sportscar driver.

Early life and career

Mitter was born in Schönlinde (Krásná Lípa) in Czechoslovakia, but his family was expelled from there, to Leonberg near Stuttgart.

After racing motorbikes, he switched to Formula Junior, becoming the best German driver with 40 victories. In addition, he sold two-stroke engines for FJ. In 1963, Mitter won the Formula Junior Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring.

Formula One

Gerhard Mitter driving a Lotus 25 in 1965 at the Nürburgring

Mitter also participated in seven Grands Prix, debuting on 23 June 1963. He scored a total of three championship points in his home 1963 German Grand Prix with an old Porsche 718 from 1961. Impressed by this, Team Lotus gave him a chance in the following years.

Sportscar driver

Gerhard Mitter driving a Porsche 908 during the 1969 1000 km race at the Nürburgring.

In sportscar racing and hillclimbing for Porsche, he scored many wins, e.g. the 1966-1968 European Hillclimb Championships against Ferrari, the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona (Porsche 907, in class) and the 1969 Targa Florio (Porsche 908) as his final major win.

Return to Formula One and death

Due to the long Nürburgring track, it was possible to take part in the German Grand Prix with Formula 2 cars that were classified in their own contest. Mitter was killed there at Schwedenkreuz while practising for the 1969 German Grand Prix with BMW's 269 F2 project. As a suspension or steering failure was suspected, the BMW team with Hubert Hahne and Dieter Quester withdrew from the race, as did Mitter's teammate at Porsche, Hans Herrmann. Udo Schütz, his driving partner at Porsche in the 1969 World Sportscar Championship season with whom he had won the Targa three months earlier, had survived a bad crash at the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans, and retired.

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4
1963	MON	BEL	NED
Ret	FRA	GBR	GER
4	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA
1964	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER
9	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX
1965	RSA	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER
Ret	ITA	USA	MEX
1966	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER
DNS	ITA	USA	MEX
1967	RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER
Ret	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX
1969	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER
DNS	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX

Complete Formula One Non-Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1962	CAP	BRX	LOM	LAV	GLV	PAU	AIN	INT	NAP	MAL	CLP	RMS	SOL
6	KAN	MED	DAN	OUL	MEX	RAN	NAT
1963	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT	ROM	SOL
5	KAN	MED	AUT	OUL	RAN
1964	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL
Ret	MED	RAN

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5
	SNE	SIL	NÜR
8	HOC	TUL	JAR	ZAN	PER	BRH	VAL
	HOC	THR	JAR	PAL	TUL	ZAN	PER	HOC
Ret	VAL
	THR	HOC	NÜR
Ret	JAR	TUL	PER	VAL

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps
Pos.	1964	1965	1967	1968	1969
GER Porsche System Engineering	GBR Colin Davis	Porsche 904/8	P
3.0	244	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche System Engineering	GBR Colin Davis	Porsche 904/8	P
2.0	20	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche System Engineering	AUT Jochen Rindt	Porsche 907/6L	P
2.0	103	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche System Engineering	GBR Vic Elford	Porsche 908	P
3.0	111	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche System Engineering	GER Udo Schütz	Porsche 908L	P
3.0	199	DNF	DNF

Complete 12 Hours of Sebring results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps
Pos.	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
GER Porsche Automobile Co.	GER Herbert Linge	Porsche 904/8	P
2.0	184	9th	1st
GER Porsche System Engineering	GER Hans Herrmann
USA Joe Buzzetta	Porsche 906	P
2.0	209	4th	1st
GER Porsche System Engineering	GER Günther Klass	Porsche 906	P
2.0	120	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche Auto	USA Scooter Patrick	Porsche 910	P
2.0	226	3rd	1st
GER Porsche Automobile Co.	GER Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 907 2.2	P
3.0	46	DNF	DNF
GER Porsche System Engineering Ltd.	GER Udo Schütz	Porsche 908/02	P
3.0	232	5th	4th

References

Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com.
Small, Steve. (1994). "The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who". Guinness.
"Gerhard Mitter - Involvement Non World Championship". StatsF1.
"All Results of Gerhard Mitter". RacingSportCars.

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