Gerhard Mitter

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Gerhard Karl Mitter (30 August 1935 – 1 August 1969)<ref name="WATN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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

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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

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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

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Gerhard Mitter driving the BMW F269 at the Nürburgring shortly before he was killed, August 1, 1969

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

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1963	Ecurie Maarsbergen	Porsche 718	Porsche 547/3 1.5 F4	MON	BEL	NED Template:Small	FRA	GBR	GER Template:Small	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA		12th=	3
1964	Team Lotus	Lotus 25	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER Template:Small	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX		NC	0
1965	Team Lotus	Lotus 25	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	RSA	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER Template:Small	ITA	USA	MEX		NC	0
1966	Ron Harris Team Lotus	Lotus 44 F2	Ford Cosworth SCA 1.0 L4	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER Template:Small	ITA	USA	MEX			NC	0
1967	Gerhard Mitter	Brabham BT23 F2	Ford Cosworth FVA 1.6 L4	RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER Template:Small	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX	NC	0
1969	Bayerische Motoren Werke AG	BMW 269 F2	BMW M12/1 1.6 L4	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER Template:Small	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	NC	0
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Complete Formula One Non-Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
1962	Ecurie Filipinetti	Lotus 21	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	CAP	BRX	LOM	LAV	GLV	PAU	AIN	INT	NAP	MAL	CLP	RMS	SOL Template:Small	KAN	MED	DAN	OUL	MEX	RAN	NAT
1963	Ecurie Maarsbergen	Porsche 718	Porsche 547/3 1.5 F4	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT	ROM	SOL Template:Small	KAN	MED	AUT	OUL	RAN
1964	Team Lotus	Lotus 25	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL Template:Small	MED	RAN
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Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Template:Tooltip	Pts
Template:F2	Gerhard Mitter	Brabham BT23	Ford	SNE	SIL	NÜR Template:Small	HOC	TUL	JAR	ZAN	PER	BRH	VAL	15th	2
Template:F2	Roy Winkelmann Racing	Brabham BT23C	Ford	HOC	THR	JAR	PAL	TUL	ZAN	PER	HOC Template:Small	VAL		NC	0
Template:F2	Bayerische Motoren Werke	BMW 269	BMW	THR	HOC	NÜR Template:Small	JAR	TUL	PER	VAL				NC	0

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
1964	Template:Flagicon Porsche System Engineering	Template:Flagicon Colin Davis	Porsche 904/8	P 3.0	244	DNF	DNF
1965	Template:Flagicon Porsche System Engineering	Template:Flagicon Colin Davis	Porsche 904/8	P 2.0	20	DNF	DNF
1967	Template:Flagicon Porsche System Engineering	Template:Flagicon Jochen Rindt	Porsche 907/6L	P 2.0	103	DNF	DNF
1968	Template:Flagicon Porsche System Engineering	Template:Flagicon Vic Elford	Porsche 908	P 3.0	111	DNF	DNF
1969	Template:Flagicon Porsche System Engineering	Template:Flagicon Udo Schütz	Porsche 908L	P 3.0	199	DNF	DNF
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Complete 12 Hours of Sebring results

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