{"id":498744,"date":"2020-05-12T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=294364"},"modified":"2024-01-14T05:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:11:53","slug":"happy-80th-birthday-kurt-ahrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/happy-80th-birthday-kurt-ahrens\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th Birthday to Kurt Ahrens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Porsche works driver Kurt Ahrens celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, 19 April 2020. Kurt Karl Heinrich \u201cKurti\u201d Ahrens was born in Brunswick, Germany in 1940 as the son of the racing driver Kurt Ahrens senior. \u201cKurti\u201d became interested in his father\u2019s sport early on and they soon even both competed in the same races together.<\/p>\n

Ahrens Jr. started his racing career in 1958, proved himself first in Formula 3, and was the Formula Junior German Champion in 1961, 1963 and 1965. He was considered to be one of the most promising German talents in formula sport, and moved up to Formula 2, where he enjoyed further success. The next step was Formula 1, where he lined up alongside Jack Brabham and Jochen Rindt in the Brabham-Repco at the German Grand Prix on the N\u00fcrburgring in 1968 — but this would be his only Formula 1 start.<\/p>\n

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This Formula 1 experience showed Kurt Ahrens the demands placed on a professional driver in the premier class of motorsport. For him, however, motor racing was above all there to provide a counterpoint to his everyday work in the family business, a recycling company. For this reason, he decided against a career in Formula 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was needed in the company, and that meant I could not afford to do the whole thing professionally. I enjoyed driving at the weekend, but on Monday I had to put all that behind me again,\u201d said Ahrens.<\/p>\n

From then on, Kurt Ahrens made a great success of his race weekends — as a Porsche works driver. During the week he worked in his parents\u2019 business, but on weekends he was one of the fastest drivers on the track. Ahrens was partnered in many races for the Porsche works team by Hans Herrmann, who became a good friend. However, he celebrated his greatest victories alongside other works drivers. Together with Jo Siffert in a Porsche 917, he won the Austrian 1,000 kilometres in the inaugural race at the newly built race track in Zeltweg in 1969, for example.<\/p>\n

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Grand Prix of Austria, Zeltweg on 25th of August, 1968, (L-R): Paul Hawkins, Jo Siffert (first place with 908 KH), Hans Herrmann with Kurt Ahrens (2nd place overall class).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first triumph for the 917, in the last race of the year, was a glorious conclusion to a season marked by extensive testing and development work. For Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch and the overall 917 project, this first victory by Kurt Ahrens and Jo Siffert was of the greatest importance, because the 917 finally proved its performance capability on the \u00d6sterreichring circuit after its disappointing failure to finish in Le Mans. In October 1969, Ahrens was also involved in the crucial test drives in Zeltweg, which ultimately resulted in the successful short-tail version of the 917 for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

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Kurt Ahrens (behind the steering wheel) in the Porsche 917 KH on the “\u00d6sterreichring” on 10th of August, 1969 (1st place overall class). Behind the 917 is Jo Siffert, to his left Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch (dark jacket).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the following year, Kurt Ahrens was able to seamlessly follow up on this success, winning the 1,000 kilometre race at the N\u00fcrburgring in a Porsche 908\/03 at the side of Vic Elford. He repeatedly showed how very fast he was, even under tough conditions. The Porsche racing team considered him to be a thoroughly honest, straightforward team member and an excellent test driver with a pronounced technical awareness for the car. He had only one serious accident in around 12 years in motorsport, when he aquaplaned a Porsche 917 into the crash barriers on the VW test track in Ehra-Lessien at around 250 km\/h in April 1970 during a test drive. The car was smashed to pieces, but fortunately Ahrens was not injured.<\/p>\n

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1970, N\u00fcrburgring (1,000 kilometre), Porsche Type 908\/03 Spyder No. 22 (overall winner), Drivers: Vic Elford and Kurt Ahrens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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31st of May, 1970, 1,000 kilometre race at the N\u00fcrburgring, award ceremony: 1st place: Vic Elford (2nd right front) and Kurt Ahrens (2nd left front) with Porsche 908\/03.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The accident of Kurt Ahrens in 917-006 in March 1970 in Ehra Lessien. The accident happened before the pre-training at Le Mans in April 1970.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ahrens shared the cockpit of the 917 long tail with Vic Elford in Le Mans in 1970. The heart of the Circuit de la Sarthe — then around 13.5 kilometres long — was the legendary Mulsanne Straight, which at the time did not yet have any chicanes: six kilometres long, a slash through the landscape, made for the 400 km\/h mark. \u201cNot a problem,\u201d said Ahrens. He was always completely at home in the further developed 917. But that was still different in the year before. \u201cIt was an absolute nightmare \u2013 the car fishtailed excessively at 350 km\/h and the rear lifted when braking hard. Rolf Stommelen and I had to ease off the throttle around 380 km\/h,\u201d he remembered. So Ahrens and Elford kept their foot down. The clock stopped at 3:19.08 minutes. This time put the pair right at the front in pole position. They held the lead for a long time in the race, until a technical defect forced them to retire.<\/p>\n

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14th of June, 1970, 24 Hours of Le Mans: Vic Elford and Kurt Ahrens with 917 LH Coup\u00e9. Behind the 917 (L-R): Helmuth Bott, Gerhard Kuechle, Kurt Ahrens, Helmut Flegl, Vic Elford, behind him Roland Bemsel, next to Vic Elford stands Werner Enz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That same year, Kurt Ahrens retired from motorsport at the age of just 30 to spend more time with his wife and four children and to look after the business. A remarkable fact: he competed in more than 300 races, but never had an accident or wrote off a car. Today, Ahrens still accompanies the Porsche Museum to historical motorsport events all over the world.<\/p>\n

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Kurt Ahrens behind the 917-001, the first built 917 from 1969.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Today, Kurt Ahrens still accompanies the Porsche Museum to its driving events. This includes the exchange with the younger generation of racing drivers, like here with Le Mans winner Marc Lieb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Source: Porsche AG]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former Porsche works driver Kurt Ahrens celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, 19 April 2020. Kurt Karl Heinrich \u201cKurti\u201d Ahrens was born in Brunswick, Germany in 1940 as the son of the racing driver Kurt Ahrens senior. \u201cKurti\u201d became interested in his father\u2019s sport early on and they soon even both competed in the same races together. 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