European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13 theres never a loss without a gain Germany mass takes look at Long career in today car Corner we talk to one of the worlds Best and most versatile Drivers Germany Jochen basically in rather Happy about my career at this i suppose that i could have been harder in business Deal less nonchalant and less easy easy but i have been that Way because we Are what we i feel that theres never a loss without a and that Ive had my share of Good Luck along the talking about the ups and Downs of his Long career on the worlds racing circuits was Germany Jochen one of Rac Ings Nice he was in Bockenheim for an inter series sports car which he won the Day after our the week before at he had won the opening round in the endurance racing championship for porsche teaming with belgian Driver Jacky so 1985 has provided a Good Start for the German driving regarding Lon distance mass says it is More strenuous than formula one racing and its a lot More after a grand prix is a sprint race that lasts Only an hour and a mass said with a so you earn a lot More Money for doing a less and formula one also has the Benefit of being More but you really cant com pare the two forms of who drove in formula one grand prix Competition for nearly 10 left that scene at the end of the year when he had his closest it came during the French grand prix at Paul Ricard circuit when his March car and the arrows car driven by italian Mauro Baldi touched at maximum both cars flew off the track and through the catch mass car continuing into the tire lined from there it continued straight Over and finally came to rest upside Down and on All Halfway into a Spectator mass escaped with a Light Baldi was and no spectators were killed or even badly in this More than any prompted the move to get rid of ground effects cars in formula that plus the fact that i now had a family to think convinced me that it was time to leave formula i could still be in it and Ive had several offers since in certain i would still be absolutely competitive after i raced against about 80 percent of the Guys in formula one but even without formula i have a full schedule with the inter series and German championship and racing in the mass placed second at Daytona this Winter and he led the 12 hours of Sebring for eight hours before mechanical problems set starting his career in 1968 in Hill climb the German Driver has done it All touring formula 2 and formula 3 10 years of formula plus Lon distance events in sports cars begin Ning in 1975 he became a porsche factory Driver in witty and fluent in four Lan like his porsche teammate is practically a grand Seigneur in world racing during his formula one driving mass was a perceptive critic of the scene because he was never timid about speaking his and Hes just As perceptive and bold regarding formula mass says people Are supporting grand prix racing without knowing i think they simply want to be to be breathing the same air at Monaco As Royalty and the spectators at formula one events Are not As knowledgeable As they used to but times and everything is enor Mously different than it was 10 to 15 Jochen in a speeds by Star finish line in 1976 French grand prix at Paul Ricard photo on the Way to Victory at Bockenheim in Joes porsche 956 photo years discussing the dwindling amount of spectators at no grand prix mass said its a matter of not enough charac ters in in formula 2 during the Early 70s when i was starting Guys like Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill raced against us because they made their Money in racing by drawing Stewart and Hill and other big name for Mula one Drivers helped draw huge crowds always or More Here at Bockenheim and we earned our Money from the Gate receipts and were paid by the organizing even when i raced in formula i made a fair living from the organizers but today its All sponsorship and the Only thing one hears about All Day Long is bloody the racing teams want to make Money and the Drivers want to make everyone talks about Money but theres Little thought Given to there Are fewer and fewer the real need today is spectators not whose aim this year is to win the world endurance driving championship and the German National championship As suffered the worst Luck of his photo chatting in the pits with visitor before Start of inter series race career during the 1976 German grand the last formula one grand prix Ever staged on the Majestic on that August driving for decided to Start on dry tires while his competitors chose Wetweather the track was Damp and there was Light rain about the but mass gambled that the rain would not and he was at the end of the third mass led big while the crowd of German spectators cheered him he seemed Well on his Way to Victory in his Home grand but it was not to the scene changed dramatically and violently when Austria Niki Lauda crashed and burned in his cars could not get through in the Accident and race was Lauda was taken to the Adenau Hospital and then later to a Hospital in Mannheim where he began his fight for the race was restarted on a subdued and at the mass was even it still seems unfair that his name is not on the record books As the Winner of the 1976 German grand now mass lives in Monte Carlo with his wife and their two sons age and 6 but he says theres never enough time at or peace and Tranquility when youre Al ways on the and the years go by fast its Only when you have children that you realize How quickly time goes mass he manages to spend about three months of the year with his he Calls Home every Day while on the but i never see them he would he want his children to pursue the dangerous profession of racing i but i push it he adding there Are Wor Thier and safer things to do for a Over the despite accidents and ups and he has managed to retain his genuine interest in his sense of humor and the modesty that always makes it a bit difficult to Mark him As a racing at a reporter from Burg paid mass one might term the ultimate compliment when he said to Chen is always the no matter what he never Randy Barnett
