1984 Jagermeister Porsche 956
Winner
1000km Imola
Stefan Bellof / Hans-Joachim Stuck
Weather: warm, dry
FIA World Endurance Championship (round
8)
Internationale
Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (round
5)
Date:
16/9/1984
Track: Autodromo Dino Ferrari-Imola (I), 5.40 kms
Bellof
(left) and Stuck after Imola
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These
photos were taken at the Imola race in September, 1984
Bellof was one of the most spectacular new talents to
arrive on the Formula 1 scene in the mid-1980s, having
rocketed to prominence in 1983 when he won two major
Formula 2 races at the wheel of a
Maurer-BMW. He
joined the
Tyrrell team
the following year and was catching both
Alain Prost's
leading
McLaren-TAG and
the second place
Toleman-Hart of
Ayrton Senna when
the rain soaked
Monaco Grand Prix
was
flagged to a halt at half distance. Regarded as a future
World Champion, he was killed in the 1985
Spa 1000km
sports car race when he crashed his Porsche 956 at Eau
Rouge trying to wrest the race lead from
Jacky Ickx's
similar car.
He was racing the Porsche 956B at Spa-Francorchamps, where
he’d won the year before. Qualifying the car third of
thirty-three, he ran second to one of the other Porsches
early on. Boutsen got them into the lead a while later, but
they lost this at the next change over, as a brake pad
needed changing. Bellof came out and charged after Jacky
Ickx, whose 962C led after the car ahead made it’s
pitstop. The German caught the leader, and on lap 78
attempted to go around the outside through the daunting 140
mph Eau Rouge corner. Ickx had nowhere to go, and the two
cars collided. Stefan went head on into the wall and was
killed instantly. He was 27.
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This is the Quartzo 1/43 model of the car that raced at
Imola that day:
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Below are pictures of Bill Hawe's 962 in similar livery:
These
photos were taken at the Rennsport Reunion at Lime Rock in
2001
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And the photos below were taken at Watkins Glen in 2003
