- Reinhold Joest
Le Mans drivers
Name = Reinhold Joest
Nationality = flagicon|Germany German
Years = 1969, 1971 - 1973, 1975 - 1976, 1980 - 1981
Team(s) = Deutsche Auto Zeitung,Martini Racing ,Jo Siffert A.T.E. Racing,Joest Racing
Best Finish = 2nd (1980)
Class Wins = 0Reinhold Joest (born 1937) is a former German
race car driver and current team owner. During the last 20 years,Joest Racing has won the24 Hours of Le Mans seven times.Driving career
Joest's driving career began in 1962 in a local
hillclimb race in theOdenwald mountains. He had won two German championships in that category by 1967. Since 1966, he raced successfully on theNürburgring , scoring a class win at the1000km Nürburgring . He won the race overall twice, in 1970 and 1980, and a total five class wins.Joest's first entry in the
24 Hours of Le Mans was in 1968, with aFord GT40 co-driven byHelmut Kelleners and sponsored by a German car magazine. His first remarkable result came in 1972, after the dominatingPorsche 917 and similar cars were not allowed anymore. Without any modern cars available, Joest borrowed an outdated 3.0LPorsche 908 /02 Langheck Coupé from theJo Siffert Museum. He and his two co-drivers finished 3rd with the 1969 model car. Despite being part of factory Porsche teams on several occasions, he never managed to be in their winning car. He came close in 1980, finishing second together withJacky Ickx in his privately-enteredPorsche 936 that was called a "Porsche 908 /80" as Porsche did not officially sell the 936.Despite never winning as a driver at Le Mans, Joest ended his driving career in style. After winning the
24 Hours of Daytona in aPorsche 935 and on theNürburgring with his Porsche 908/3 Turbo in 1980 (both withRolf Stommelen ), he went on to win several German DRM races in 1981 with a mightyPorsche 935 "Moby Dick". He retired after winning theKyalami 9 Hours withJochen Mass at the end of the year.ee also
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Joest Racing External links
* [http://www.joest-racing.de Joest Racing official site]
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