Hubert Hahne

Former F1 driver
Name = Hubert Hahne

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Nationality = flagicon|Germany German
Years = F1|1966 - F1|1970
Team(s) = Lola, March
Races = 5 (3 starts)
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Poles = 0
Points = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race = 1966 German Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race = 1970 German Grand Prix

Hubert Hahne (born March 28 1935 [cite web | url = http://www.oldracingcars.com/bydriver/watn.asp?letter=H | title = The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? | accessdate = 2007-08-13] ) is a former racing driver from Germany.

He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, two of those at the wheel of Formula Two cars, and one non-Championship Formula One race. [cite web | url = http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/archive/f1/title.html | title = The Formula One Archives | accessdate = 2007-08-13]

Hahne was successful in touring car racing, eg. the European Touring Car Championship. In 1966, he was the first to lap the Nürburgring in under 10 minutes in a touring car, a BMW New Class. On the old and very long Nürburgring, Formula Two cars occasionally had their own race alongside the Formula One cars in the same events to fill the field, which provided other drivers like Kurt Ahrens, Gerhard Mitter and Dieter Quester the opportunity to enter the German Grand Prix. As the Formula Two section was counted separately, the drivers could not score World Championship points. Hahne participated in the 1966 and 1969 German Grands Prix in the special Formula Two sections of those events, but withdrew before the start of the 1969 event due to the fatal accident suffered by his team-mate Mitter.

For his true Formula One debut at the 1967 German Grand Prix, Hahne drove a Formula Two Lola chassis fitted with a 2-litre 16 valve BMW engine, thus qualifying the drive for Formula One. The BMW factory were allowed to run this to give some national encouragement. He retired on lap 7 with suspension failure. The following year he finished 10th in the same car.

Hahne got himself a March 701 for 1970, but could not qualify for the 1970 German Grand Prix which was held at the Hockenheimring that year though, hardly a track were skill mattered most. Hahne claimed that chassis and engine were among the worst of the many March and Cosworth delivered that year. Ronnie Peterson showed later at Silverstone that this very car could reach adequate times, and Hahne retired. Rather than proving the quality of the car, this might have rather given an early indication that Peterson was a master of driving fast with below-average cars, as he would show in the future.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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References

External links

* http://bmw-motorsport.com/ms/en/fascination/history/bmw_touring/heroes/index.html
* http://www.autocoursegpa.com/driver~driver_id~11791.htm
* http://www.john-w.de/bmwf2/

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