Stefan Bellof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR44Iw2HLQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgtZe-iQH1U

Stefan Bellof The NurburgKing

Trist det som hände enligt mig var han den bästa och kommer så att förbli.

MaZ skrev:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgtZe-iQH1U

Missar jag nått här eller men jag har alltid trott att Bellof
försökte köra om Ickx men det verkar ju vara tvärtom
Ickx får kanske en bättre utgång ur la Source och går förbi
Bellof nerför backen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFrqLBcCGk&mode=related&search . . . .


wow... 6.11 fullvarv... snittfart på över 200kmh!!

han var en grym förare, annat kan man inte säga!

Hur gammal var han när han gick bort?

CobraErik: Stefan Bellof blev 27 år.

Tar mej friheten att kopiera in Nigel Roebucks tankar om Stefan Bellof i "Ask Nigel" på www.autosport.com

Dear Nigel,

What do you think of Stefan Bellof? I have very limited memories of him, but, it seems to me that in that soaking Monaco GP he was actually faster than Ayrton Senna? Was that true? Was he that good?

Sinisa Tkalcevic

Dear Sinisa,

Long ago, when I was asked to write a story about the great lost talents of motor racing - in terms of drivers who had died before achieving what they should have done - I put Stefan Bellof at the top of the list.

Bellof was a delightful fellow, and a great character. Nothing fazed him. In the appalling traffic on the way into the Dijon circuit, for the 1984 French Grand Prix, he - like everyone else - got badly delayed, but where the rest of us just sat there and swore, Stefan simply drove his Porsche 911 through a farm gate, and proceeded to the circuit across ploughed fields!

For ever after, it became his practice to arrive at a track very early in the morning, then sit down to breakfast with the Tyrrell mechanics. Gilles Villeneuve was very similar in that respect; it was not by chance that both men were so loved by their teams.

Martin Brundle, Bellof's Tyrrell team mate, once described him as 'the fastest driver since Villeneuve', which was a hell of a compliment, honestly paid. In a racing car, Stefan was very much of that school, incredibly fast, with freakish reactions. Like Gilles, too, he was also apparently without a sense of fear.

People have speculated endlessly about how the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix would have finished, had not it been stopped before half-distance. Would Bellof have won? Yes, quite possibly - so long, that is, as he managed to keep it on the road for the duration, and the same went for Ayrton Senna. As it was, the race, in truly dreadful conditions, was stopped after 31 of the scheduled 78 laps.

At that point, Senna's Toleman was on the point of passing Alain Prost's McLaren for the lead, and Bellof was running third, 13 seconds behind. Significantly, though, when the rain became really atrocious, Bellof was catching Senna at a greater rate than Senna was catching Prost.

There were 27 drivers at Monaco that year, attempting to qualify for 20 positions on the grid, and Bellof was the last man to get in. At that time, Tyrrell continued to run the venerable Cosworth DFV V8 engine, whereas every other team had turbo motors.

While it may said that, at Monaco, the throttle response of a normally-aspirated was preferable to that of a turbo, still the fact remains that the Cosworth was massively out-powered - and at Monte Carlo, with its multitude of short squirts between corners, that was a significant disadvantage, even in the wet.

of course we'll never know whether Stefan would have beaten Ayrton that day, had the race run its full distance. With 47 laps to go, it's quite possible that he would have caught him, but getting by might have been a rather different matter - particularly when Senna was heading for what have been his first Grand Prix victory...

Would Bellof have been Germany's World Champion? Without any doubt, he had the ability, and, although this has never been officially confirmed by Ferrari, there is little doubt that he would have partnered Michele Alboreto in the team in 1986. His death, in the 1985 Spa 1000 kms, was a dreadful loss to the sport, and even more of one to those who knew him.

Mycket intressant att läsa Sörpan!

Jag ställde samma fråga till veteranen Stuck via hans gästbok för något år sedan och fick svaret att Bellof var en av de snabbaste förarna han skådat, om inte den snabbaste. Hade varit så oerhört kul att se hur bra han hade blivit

Alltid sorligt o se sånt här