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[sramoa]

Does anybody has got any info about 1969 Népliget(Hungary) Formel-Vau event.

I found a great photo for Niki Lauda in this event. #9 car-I think a Kaimann...Who was #24?

 

 

Thanks

 

[funformula]

The driver of car #24 looks like Helmut Bross to me.

[Rob Semmeling]

Yes, that is Helmut Bross.

[eldougo]

Helmut Bross (born May 5, 1939 in Herrenberg) is a German racing driver and businessman.

Life and career [edit]

Helmut Bross, skilled industrial merchant, his racing career began in his youth as a driver of soapbox derby.

From 1966 he drove Formula Vee racing cars of the brand fox. After his first success in the season, which he finished with a fourth place finish, he earned with the help of his father, a Kaimann Formula V-1300, with whom he went to Paris on the Linas-Montlhery Autodrome de directly on the first place. As a result he won in the years 1968 to 1970 three times the German championship in Formula V and 1972, the German championship in the 1.6-liter Super-Vee on "comet". During this time Bross drove in his class against racing legends such as, inter alia, Keke Rosberg, Helmut Marko, Harald Ertl and Arie Luyendyk. [1]

In the 1000-km race at the Nürburgring in 1974 Bross went with Freddy Kottulinsky a Lola T290 in the class for sports cars to 2-liter engine, but retired in the fifth round after a technical defect from [2]; the championship round belonged to the World Sportscar Championship in 1974. His biggest success in a race for the World Sportscar Championship, he scored in 1976, when he at the Nürburgring with partner Eberhard Sindel on a Porsche 934 sixth in the overall standings was again [3].

For many years, Bross started as a private driver in the Inter series, in which he was 1977 overall winner in the prototype class on Lola T294-BMW. [4] In 1999, he ended his active career.

Today, however, Helmut Bross is still regularly in historic racing series active. At the age of 72 years he went in June 2011 with his private Lucchini race car, built in 1986, a prototype of the class C, the ADAC race at the "Stuttgarter Rössle" among 70 participants on the second place.

Together with his two sons Helmut Bross is active as a team leader at the Classical Race Series. The Helmut Bross team has next to the Lucchini Group C also a Royale RP Formula Ford, who was then designed by Rory Byrne. [5]