VIN: the Kremer Racing / Raymond Raus Porsche 934 chassis 9306700166
History of chassis 9306700166
Chassis 9306700166 was the Porsche 934 supplied new to Kremer Racing in Cologne for the 1976 season.
That year the car was driven exclusively by Kremer’s number one driver, Bob Wollek, who campaigned it nine of the ten races that formed the 1976 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM). Wollek also raced ‘0166’ in select rounds of the European GT Championship and the Deutsche Automobil Rundstrecken Meistershaft (the last year the DARM series was held).
In addition to the 934 (which was finished in Vaillant Green to reflect a sponsorship agreement with the German heating, ventilation and air-conditioning giant), Kremer also ran their own in-house developed 935 Spezial during 1976. This car, dubbed the Kremer K1, appeared predominantly in the 1976 World Sportscar Championship (along with the Le Mans 24 Hours) and had been built on a bare share supplied by Porsche (006 00019).
Bob Wollek’s 1976 DRM campaign was enormously successful. From nine outings he recorded three wins (at Mainz-Finthen, the Norisring and Hockenheim) along with two second place finishes and a brace of thirds. Come the end of the season, Wollek was the best placed Division 1 contender but championship honours went to Division 2 Zakspeed Ford driver, Hans Heyer.
Having won the opening DARM race of the season at Hockenheim, Wollek and ‘0166’ played no further part in that series.
In the European GT Championship, Wollek contested three races driving ‘0166’ collecting a win at Imola, second at Zeltweg and fifth at the Hockenheim season finale. The Frenchman also won the inaugural Nurburgring Trophy, a 22 lap non-championship event that took place in mid October organised by the ADAC.
Thanks to his exploits in ‘0166’ along with Kremer’s 935, Bob Wollek was crowned Porsche Cup champion for 1976. Ferry Porsche presented Wollek with the trophy on December 15th 1976 along with a cheque for DM65,000.
For 1977, Kremer acquired a factory built customer 935 (the first year such a car had been offered) and also built up a pair of Kremer Spezials: 935 chassis 007 0016 and 934 chassis 006 0022.
The now surplus to requirements ‘0166’ was sold to Belgian privateer, Raymond Raus.
During the next three seasons, Raus ran his 934 at domestic level throughout the Benelux region and achieved some good results to include a couple of wins at Zolder. The car was retired from competition duty at the end of the 1979 season.
Notable History
Kremer Racing, Cologne (Vaillant Kremer Team)
11/04/1976 DAR Hockenheim (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st Gr.4 2.0+ class (#938)
02/05/1976 DRM Nurburgring (B. Wollek) 3rd oa, 3rd Div.1 class (#6)
23/05/1976 DRM Mainz-Finthen (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st Div.1 class (#9)
07/06/1976 EGT Zeltweg (B. Wollek) 2nd oa, 2nd GT 2.0+ class (#??)
20/06/1976 DRM Hockenheim (B. Wollek) 2nd oa, 2nd Div.1 class (#5)
27/06/1976 DRM Norisring (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st Div. 1 class (#6T)
25/07/1976 DRM Diepholz (B. Wollek) DNF (#1)
01/08/1976 DRM Nurburgring (B. Wollek) DNF (#??)
29/08/1976 DRM Hockenheim (B. Wollek) 2nd oa, 2nd Div.1 class (#103)
12/09/1976 DRM Nurburgring (B. Wollek) 3rd oa, 3rd Div.1 class (#5)
19/09/1976 EGT Imola (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st GT 3.0+ class (#9)
26/09/1976 DRM Hockenheim (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st Div.1 class (#4)
10/10/1976 IND Nurburgring Trophy (B. Wollek) 1st oa, 1st 2.0+ class (#1)
31/10/1976 EGT Hockenheim (B. Wollek) 5th oa, 4th GT 3.0+ class (#6)
Sold to Raymond Raus, Belgium
03/04/1977 Zolder (R. Raus) 1st oa (#83)
24/04/1977 Zolder (R. Raus) 2nd oa (#83)
22/05/1977 Colmar-Berg (R. Raus) ran (#83)
30/05/1977 Zandvoort (R. Raus) DNF (#83??)
19/06/1977 Zandvoort (R. Raus) DNF (#83??)
26/06/1977 Zolder (R. Raus) DNF (#347)
03/07/1977 Nivelles (R. Raus) DNF (#83??)
17/07/1977 Zandvoort (R. Raus) ran (#83)
28/08/1977 Zandvoort (R. Raus) 3rd oa (#26)
04/09/1977 Zolder (R. Raus) 1st oa (#83)
24/09/1977 Zolder (R. Raus) 4th oa (#??)
09/07/1978 Nivelles (R. Raus) 3rd oa (#70)
13/08/1978 Nivelles (R. Raus) 2nd oa (#??)
10/09/1978 Zolder (R. Raus) 2nd oa (#??)
16/09/1978 Zandvoort (R. Raus) ran (#84)
15/10/1978 Zolder (R. Raus) 7th oa (#??)
01/04/1979 Zolder (R. Raus) ran (#61)
15/09/1979 Zandvoort ("Alex") 6th oa (#58)
06/10/1979 Zandvoort ("Alex") 3rd oa (#58)
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