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[Udo K.]

Maybe not too many of us know Guenther Phillipp, who being a real "multi talent" tried his hand at motor racing during the first part of the sixties. Driving his Ferrari 250 GT he won 3 Austrian Championships (Staatsmeisterschaften) in the big GT class.
He started with a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL in 1960, then bought his 250 GT and featured
quite prominently in the Austrian airport-races at that time. (Aspern, Innsbruck, Zeltweg).
Before these activities he was a Dr. med, a swimmer of Olympic qualities and, mainly, an actor playing in many movies of the 50ies and 60ies.
In my data base I have him winning in Aspern and Zeltweg in 1961, in Innsbruck in 1963 and
a third in Innsbruck again in 1964.
Has anybody more results of this talented gentleman driver?

Guenther Philipp died on October 2nd in a hospital in Bad Godesberg aged 85.

[fines]

I never saw him drive, but I just know he was a better driver than actor...! :

[Reinhard Windeler]

Originally posted by Udo K.
Guenther Phillipp Guenther Philipp

I think we should take care of the correct spelling of names in this forum.

In this case the name is Gunther Philipp, no "e" after "u", one "l".

Of course it's a stage-name. His real name was Gunther Placheta, born on 8 June 1918 at Maroshéviz in modern-day Romania (at that time of course Austria-Hungary). Where's the thread on racing pseudonyms?

For his exploits in the movie business look at http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0679973/.

[Tim Murray]

Originally posted by Reinhard Windeler
Where's the thread on racing pseudonyms?

In the Nostalgia Forum Archive, unfortunately:

http://forums.atlasf...ht=axel linther

Originally posted by Reinhard Windeler
I think we should take care of the correct spelling of names in this forum.

I absolutely agree. (Mark Donohue seems to be the one most frequently spelled wrongly).

[Udo K.]

Originally posted by Reinhard Windeler

I think we should take care of the correct spelling of names in this forum.

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.. sorry for this mishap. Of course, you are perfectly right.

[Henk]

Udo - Don’t feel embarrassed. Even the author of the Gunter Philipp Biographie made a mistake.

The biography includes a summary of Gunther Philipp’s involvement in motor racing.
For his achievements with the 250 GTO see http://www.barchetta...05GT.250GTO.htm

The two 'Massimo Poggi’ (usually cited as ‘PM Poggi’) cars of the Ecurie Vienne belonged to that large category of constructions that were unsuccessful in F-Junior competition.
Success for the Ecurie Vienne came only after they had switched to Cooper (with Curt Bardi-Barry and Jochen Rindt in 1962 and 1963).

I wonder why the Ecurie Vienne took an interest in the PM Poggi. Apparently they were one of the very few (the only?) clients of Eugenio Poggi.

The PM Poggi was briefly discussed in 2000; Nostalgia Forum Archive: http://forums.atlasf...highlight=poggi

But this thread didn’t reveal much of the history of Poggi’s construction. Especially the intriguing link with the Swiss/American ‘Automobili Tec-Mec’ (well-known for the Tec-Mec Maserati F1 project) still needs clarification.

Any new viewpoints since 2000?