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Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Kurt Ahrens Jr.
- Kurt Karl-Heinrich Ahrens, also known as Kurt Ahrens Jr., (born 19 April 1940 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a former sports car racing and touring car racing driver who occasionally appeared in German Grand Prix races, mostly in Formula 2 cars. His father, Kurt Ahrens Sr., was a German speedway champion who competed against his son for five years.
- Kurt Ahrens Jr.
- started in 1958 with a Cooper-Norton Formula 3 and won the German Formula Junior title in 1961 and 1963, when his father retired. He then raced Formula 2 and was present when Jim Clark was killed at the Hockenheimring in 1968.
- Due to the long Nürburgring track, it was possible to take part in the German Grand Prix in Formula 2 cars.
- He participated mostly with Brabhams for the Caltex Racing team, and was invited to drive the Brabham-Repco F1 in the wet 1968 German Grand Prix. In 1968, Ahrens Jr.
- joined the Porsche factory sports car team and shared victory with Jo Siffert in the 1969 Austrian 1000 km event.
- He co-drove the pole-setting Porsche 917 "long tail" at the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans, but neither car finished.
- In 1970, he partnered with Vic Elford to win the 1000km Nürburgring in a Porsche 908. Ahrens retired after 1970, taking pride in never crashing in a race.
- He had suffered a high speed shunt in April 1970 while testing a long tail Porsche on a wet Ehra-Lessien, with the car disintegrating badly- the car went under the Armco barrier and broke in half (as they were known to do), leaving Ahrens strapped in the back.
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