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Race Report: Nurburgring, 7 September 1975

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 7 September 1975

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Round 10 of the German F3 Championship was held over two heats and a final and was dominated by Swedish visitors who took the first four places. The only non-Swedish driver able to mount a challenge was Bertram Schäfer in his Ralt who led the first half of the final until he picked up a puncture. Once Schäfer was eliminated the Rotel Marches of Conny Andersson and Conny Ljungfeldt took an easy 1-2.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 7 September 1975

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 May 1975

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 May 1975

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A support race for the 1000 km Sports Car race and round 4 of the German F3 Championship, the Texaco Trophy was held over 6 laps of the full 22.835 km circuit.

Friday’s practice session was cold and miserable and most runners seemed uninterested in really going for a time, Conny Andersson went the quickest at 8:14.3, a tenth up on Freddy Kottulinsky. It nearly all went wrong for Andersson when he came up to pass a Maco at the Karussel, thinking it was being driven by the experienced Ernst Maring Andersson dived inside expecting to be given room. However it was the identical orange coloured Jaegermeister team car of the less careful Erhard Miltz who chopped Andersson denting the tub on the Swede’s March 753. Two men who came to grief were Graham Hamilton in the Ecurie Ecosse March 753 who blew an engine after half a lap and with no spare was out of the race as was Piergiovanni Tenani who removed a rear wheel on his March 743.
Saturday practice was much warmer and it was Conny Andersson who was soon setting a hot pace, lap by lap he reduced his times until he took the pole with an 8:04.7 lap that was over three seconds faster than Kottulinsky and some 10 seconds under Giorgio Francia’s lap record. Third fastest was the now quite elderly Alpine of Dieter Kern with Francia’s Maco in fourth.

Kottulinsky lead the other 33 cars away from the grid but by the end of the lap he had surrendered first place to Andersson, third was Kern from Francia, Gunnar Nordström, Ernst Maring, Renzo Zorzi, Ulf Svensson, Rudolf Dötsch, Clas Sigurdsson and Heinz Lange. Andersson set a new lap record of 8:07.1 on lap 2 but Kottulinsky wasn’t letting him get away whilst Kern was dropping away in third. Nordström pushed Francia back a place on the second lap but the Italian stayed in close contact. On lap 3 Kottulinsky came through the North Curve in the lead with Andersson in second and in some difficulties with the rear of his March. For a minute it looked as if Andersson would pull off the track but he continued but the March stopped part way round the lap with a broken damper.
By lap 4 Kottulinsky had a lead of 8.5 seconds from Kern in second who was falling further back with every lap. Nordström was eight seconds back in third with Francia another six seconds away in fourth, next there was a big dice for fifth between Maring, Dötsch, Svensson and Zorzi. Sigurdson had fallen away from this group and was having a lone race ahead of the GRD 373s of Bernhard Brack and Hakan Alriksson. Lasse Karlsson retired his old Brabham BT38 at this time with engine failure, he hadn’t qualified but had been allowed to start the race anyway.
With two laps to go Dötsch had dropped to the back of the fifth placed battle and in an effort to get back on terms he shunted Svensson up the rear at the Swallow Tail Curve. Both cars hurtled off the track, Dötsch wrote his March 753 off against the Armco whilst Svensson’s Brabham BT41 suffered rear end damage.
There were no further incidents or positional changes so at the chequered flag it was Kottulinsky who took the win by twelve seconds from Kern, Kottulinsky also setting a new lap record on the fifth lap.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 May 1975

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 March 1975

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 March 1975

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A support race for the 300 km Sports Car race and round 1 of the the German F3 Championship. The race format was fairly complex, there were two 10 lap heats of the short 2.292 km circuit, the fastest eight from each heat made it to the two part final. The final consisted of two 20 lap races with the same grid being used for both, the results were then decided on aggregate times.

Conny Andersson suffered from a broken gearlever and a failing rear wing in the first part of the final but he led the second race from start to finish. Alceste Bodini was very unlucky in second race of the final, he was lying second in his ex-Cevert-Salvati Tecno until the last lap when engine problems dropped him down to fourth at the flag.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 31 March 1975

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 8 September 1974

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 8 September 1974

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Round 10 of the German F3 championship, the Polifac Trophy, was once again supporting a Interserie round. Held on the South circuit of the Nurburgring the “Redlefsen Super Sprint” was decided over two 15 lap heats followed by a 25 lap final.

Conny Andersson found himself in trouble at the start of the final when his clutch failed and he lost a lot of time until with 10 laps remaining his clutch returned and he began to catch the leaders. It was Hans Binder who had taken advantage of Andersson’s problem to lead the race and entering the final corner he was still ahead but the recovering Andersson went for the lead. The two Marches made contact breaking a water rail on Binder’s car, both were able to keep running and Andersson snatched the win by half a second. Gunnar Nilsson took the fastest lap and might well have been in the battle for the lead but plug problems on the grid lost him two laps.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 8 September 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 16 June 1974

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 16 June 1974

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The latest round of the Polifac Trophy was a support race for an Interserie round and attracted several UK runners in addition to the usual German national teams. The race was held over two 5 lap heats with the result being decided on aggregate time, unusually the same grid was used for both heats.

During qualifying Tony Brise complained of a very gutless engine and Brian Henton damaged his exhaust and wing with an off at Bergwerk.

Henton jumped into the lead of Heat 1 after a great start from the second row, he was chased by Alex Ribeiro, Gunnar Nordström, Alberto Colombo and Conny Andersson. Henton had a big lead at the end of lap 1 with Ribeiro still second ahead of Gaudenzio Mantova, Gunnar Nilsson, Giorgio Francia, Nordström and Dieter Kern. Superhen had increased his lead at the end of lap 2 but part way round the next lap the March driver came upon a sudden rain shower and combined with an oily track Henton lost control and spun off. Francia now took the lead from Ribeiro who was being attacked by Andersson, next came a squabbling bunch comprising Nilsson, Ulf Svensson and Willi Deutsch with Harald Ertl’s Rheinland (nee Eifelland-nee March) next.
Mantova, Colombo and Kern managed to come to grief in the wet at Bergwerk but up front Francia was untroubled and came home an easy winner ahead of the three Swedes, Nilsson, Andersson and Svensson. Retirements included Tony Brise was out on the first lap with a damaged nose when Cinotti spun in front of him and Larry Perkins who was involved in an accident with Mantova.

Brian Henton was able to make the start of the second heat when his car was repaired using parts from team mate Jose Chateaubriand’s car, the Brazilian having retired from Heat 1 following a spin. Francia took the lead from the start in Heat 2 and dominated proceedings leading from flag to flag and leading Nilsson home by 10 seconds. Ribeiro had held second to begin with chased hard by Nilsson and Andersson with Svensson joining in after three laps. Andersson had a bit of a moment and dropped back to fifth as both Nilsson and Svensson passed Ribeiro.
Further back Willi Deutsch and Harald Ertl had been having a good dice until the gear lever broke in Ertl’s car which allowed F Ford graduate Hans Binder up to seventh ahead of Nick von Preussen. After the race it was discovered that Ribeiro had damaged suspension following early contact with Francia making his fourth place finish all the more commendable. Henton retired again unhappy with the handling of the car following its speedy rebuild.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 16 June 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 18 May 1974

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 18 May 1974

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A support race for the 1000km World Sports Car and round 2 of the Polifac Trophy, the German F3 Championship. A good field arrived to do battle over 5 laps of the magnificent 22.835km Nordschleife circuit.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 18 May 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 1 April 1973

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 1 April 1973

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A huge crowd of some 90,000 came to the Nurburgring for this meeting which featured Interserie and European Sports Car rounds as well as this F3 race. Practice was dominated by the French Alpines and Martinis with Tony Brise the best UK runner in fifth.

The French cars also dominated the race with victory going to the works Alpine of Alain Serpaggi ahead of the works Martini of Jean-Pierre Paoli that had lead briefly on lap 5. Leclere had been running with Serpaggi until a quick stop near the end, his car was later disqualified for being underweight. Brise had to stop to change a broken airfoil on lap 1 and was then hampered by a failing head gasket during the rest of the race.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 1 April 1973

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 13 August 1972

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 13 August 1972

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A very large field of 61 cars entered the Rhein-Mosel-Preis held over 7 laps of the mighty 22.835 km per lap Nurburgring. Many of the runners were German although several UK and Italian based teams made the journey. The race was held in heavy rain with victory going to the works STP-March 723 of Jochen Mass followed by Patrick Depailler guesting in one of the Deutsche Renault AG entered Alpines.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 13 August 1972

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 27 May 1972

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 27 May 1972

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19 cars arrived at the Nurburgring for this German Championship round over 5 laps on the full 22.835 km circuit.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 27 May 1972

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 2 April 1972

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 2 April 1972

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This was the first round of the German F3 Championship and 35 cars from an original entry of 69 travelled to the mighty Nurburgring for two 7 lap heats, the winner to be decided on aggregate times. Amongst the more interesting entries were four Alpine-Renaults, one a works car for Jean-Pierre Jabouille, the other three were entered by the German Renault division. There was a also small class for 1-litre cars which I’ve ignored, only 4 cars arrived.

The starting grid for heat two was based on the finishing positions for heat one.

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Race Report: Nurburgring, 2 April 1972

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

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