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Brno 2 hours

Masaryk-Ring, Brno, Czechoslovakia

Date: 21/5/1972
Track length: 13.941 m
Attendance: 100.000
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 17 (div. 2 and 3), 25 (div. 1)
Finishers: 13 (div. 2 and 3), 12 (div. 1)

Pole position: Mass in 4.59,1 (div. 2 and 3), Larini in 5.32,8 (div. 1)
Fastest lap: unknown

Distance: 2 hours
Average speed: 167,280 kmh (div. 2 and 3), 140,110 kmh (div. 1)
Weather: cloudy, rain at the end (div. 1), drizzle at the start (div. 2)
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1972 Cars

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Brno, firm entry in the ETCC once again, wasn’t changed at all. Still fast, still dangerous.

Saturday practice for division 1 started wet. After 30 minutes, an accident occurred, which took the lives of a track marshal and Autodelta driver Luigi Rinaldi. Rinaldi spun in the fast right hander, caused by aquaplaning, and crashed into the building on the finish line. Unfortunately, when Larini had a big moment a little earlier on the same spot, it frightened a few officials, who moved to a safer spot - but not all. Six of them were left - five of them escaped by the door; the sixth one was killed.

Division 2 and 3 took it a little easier, warned by the accident, but Mass damaged his suspension (this could be repaired in time for the second session) and Walter Brun destroyed one Schnitzer coupé. Brun, for the first time in Brno and warned by Josef Schnitzer to take it easy on the wet track, tried to stay in front of a closing Lauda (Alpina), missed his braking point, left the road and produced a double salto, landing on the roof, just missing a light standard. In the afternoon, BMW’s new bonus system (50.000 DM for a victory, 10.000 DM for place 1-3 on the starting grid) paid off since BMW at least forced Ford to go out again to claim the expected 1-2. Lauda (the only reason Alpina went to Brno) was third. In division 2, another 10.000 DM was paid to Pankl for second place behind Birrell.

The division 1 race saw four Alfa’s in front followed by two Fiats. Autodelta had not withdrawn after the fatality, to keep title chances intact. Grano drove like a man possessed, getting as high as second before he had to retire, just like Dona, with gearbox troubles. Mike Parkes of Filipinetti was frustrated by the Fiat company, being not very helpful and slow in homologation questions - still no five speed gearbox homologated.
Wendlinger (father of) stayed on slicks when the rain came half an hour before the end, just missing second but still splitting the Autodelta team.

For division 2 and 3, 3 warm-up laps were held, to give everybody an idea where the track was wet or dry. Fitzpatrick and Glemser choose slicks, the others intermediates. After 30 minutes, the Capri’s were in front of Fitzpatrick, then Birrell, Peltier and Pankl. Lauda was already missing: a valve rocker had broken. The order stayed the same until just before the end, when both Capri’s had to take on fuel. The windows were cleaned as well, unfortunately the emergency switch of Mass’s car was twisted, so Mass had to do a lap with a misfiring engine. First, the battery was replaced until the switch was found guilty. It was too late, Fitzpatrick had taken second.

Division 1
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine		 Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)		 Engine
Type		 Group Distance,
time		 Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out
1 1 51 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Gianluigi Picchi, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 21 laps, 2:05.20,7 2 5.35,3    
2 2 52 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Massimo Larini, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 20 1 5.32,8    
3 3 73 Hubert Ascher
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Karl Wendlinger, A
 1290 L4 Div. 1 20 6 5.53,6    
4 4 58 Scuderia Brescia Corse
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Vincenzo Loda, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 20 7 5.57,1    
5 5 57 Auto Skoda Mladá Boleslav
Skoda 120 S		 Jaroslav Bobek, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 19        
6 6 90 Auto Skoda Mladá Boleslav
Skoda 110 L		 Milan Zid, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 19        
7 7 78 Metalex Racing Team Praha
Skoda 110 L		 Vaclav Chlustina, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 18        
8 8 56 Auto Skoda Mladá Boleslav
Skoda 120 S		 Václav Bobek, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 17 15 6.20,4    
9 9 81  
Skoda 110 L		 Petr Voltr, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 17        
10 10 77  
NSU 1200 TT		 Peter Wisskirchen, D
 1296 L4 Div. 1 17        
11 11 84 ASK Havirov
Skoda 110 L Rallye		 Zdenek Kec, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1 17        
12 12 87  
Renault R 8 Gordini		 Jirí Hák, CS
 1255 L4 Div. 1 10        
      Mineif-Trivellato
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Manfred Mineif, D
 1290 L4 Div. 1   8 6.02,0    
       
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Dieter Kern, D
 1290 L4 Div. 1   10 6.05,5    
       
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Giuseppe Gallo ("Girasole"), I
 1290 L4 Div. 1          
DNF   71 Shell-Berre
NSU 1200 TT		 Jean-Claude Boucher, F
 1296 L4 Div. 1 3 13 6.17,3    
DNF   61 Scuderia Filipinetti
Fiat 128 Rallye		 Gérard Pillon, CH
Mario Radicella, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1   9 6.03,1   Gearbox
DNF   60 Scuderia Filipinetti
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Walter Dona, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1   14 6.18,9   Gearbox
DNF   59 Scuderia Filipinetti
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Umberto Grano, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1   4 5.39,6   Gearbox
DNF   65 Trivellato Racing Team
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Cosimo Turizio, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1   5 5.49,3    
DNF   62 Trivellato Racing Team
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Germano Prenol ("Willer"), I
 1290 L4 Div. 1   12 6.13,0    
DNF   64 Trivellato Racing Team
Fiat 128 coupé 1100		 Giuseppe Gallo ("Girasole"), I
 1148 L4 Div. 1   11 6.11,0    
DNF   53 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Luigi Colzani, I
(Carlo Facetti, I)
 1290 L4 Div. 1   3 5.36,3    
DNS   91  
Skoda 110 L		 Zdenek Ponec, CS
 1299 L4 Div. 1          
DNS   55 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Luigi Rinaldi, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1         Fatal accident in practice

Division 2 and 3
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine		 Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)		 Engine
Type		 Group Distance,
time		 Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out
1 1 1 Ford Köln
Ford Capri RS 2600		 Dieter Glemser, D
 2940 V6 Div. 3 24 laps, 2:03.56,4 2 5.00,1    
2 2 5 Team Schnitzer Motul
BMW 2800 CS		 John Fitzpatrick, GB
 2996 L6 Div. 3 23 4 5.05,8    
3 3 2 Ford Köln
Ford Capri RS 2600		 Jochen Mass, D
 2940 V6 Div. 3 23 1 4.59,1    
4 1 24 Ford Köln
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Gerry Birrell, GB
 1840 L4 Div. 2 23 laps, 2:03.33,9 5 5.08,3    
5 4 7 Précision Liegeoise
BMW 2800 CS		 Alain Peltier, B
 2996 L6 Div. 3 22 6 5.12,0    
6 2 21 Alpina
BMW 2002		 Gerold Pankl, A
 1990 L4 Div. 2 22 7 5.23,6    
7 3 38  
BMW 2002		 Sepp Manhalter, A
 1990 L4 Div. 2 21 10 5.37,9    
8 4 26  
BMW 1600 TI		 Otto Brindl, D
 1573 L4 Div. 2 21 13 6.04,3    
9 5 30 PAMK Klatovy
BMW 2002		 Zdenek Halada, CS
 1990 L4 Div. 2 20 11 6.00,4    
10 6 29  
BMW 2002		 Thord Hollström, S
 1990 L4 Div. 2 20 12 6.02,4    
11 7 31 Jolly Club
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Martino Finotto, I
 1800? L4 Div. 2 19 8 5.29,2    
12 8 22 Badener R.C.
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Wolfgang Stumpf, A
 1800? L4 Div. 2 17 17 6.25,9    
NC 9 27 Max Bulla Racing Team
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Johann Schnabel, A
 1800? L4 Div. 2 4 14 6.04,6    
DNF   8  
Chevrolet Camaro		 Urs (Robert) Eberhard, D
 5000 V8 Div. 3   16 6.10,7    
DNF   39 Auto Fox Wiesbaden
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm		 Harald Ertl, A
 1985 L4 Div. 2 5 15 6.09,1   Clutch
DNF   34 Team Alfa Wiener
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm		 Heinz Derflinger, A
 1985 L4 Div. 2 3 9 5.31,6    
DNF   6 Alpina
BMW 2800 CS		 Niki Lauda, A
 2996 L6 Div. 3 1 3 5.02,4   Engine/Gearbox
DNF/DNS?   41  
Renault R 12 Gordini		 Zdenek Ponec, CS
 1565 L4 Div. 2          
DNS   4 Team Schnitzer Motul
BMW 2800 CS		 Walter Brun, CH
 2996 L6 Div. 3         Accident in practice

Remarks: Points for driver championship: pos. 1-6 Glemser-Pankl; 7: Picchi, 8: Mannhalter, 9: Brindl, 10: Wendlinger (Larini??)