Hubert Hahne

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Hubert Hahne
Nationality	German
World Championship Career
Active years	1967 - 1968, 1970
Team(s)	Lola, March
Races	3
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0

Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1967 German Grand Prix


Last race	1970 German Grand Prix

Hubert Hahne (born March 28, 1935) was a Formula One driver from Germany.

He participated in 3 Grands Prix, debuting on 6 August 1967, and scored 0 championship points.

For his Formula One debut at the German Grand Prix, he drove a Formula Two Lola chassis fitted with a 2-litre 16 valve BMW engine, thus qualifying the drive for Formula One. The BMW factory were allowed to run this to give some national encouragement. He retired on lap 7 with suspension failure.

Hahne was successful in touring car racing, eg. the European Touring Car Championship. In 1966, he was the first to lap the Nürburgring in under 10 minutes in a touring car, a BMW New Class.

Hubert Hahne with Lola-BMW Formula 2 in 1968 at the Nürburgring

On the old and very long Nürburgring, Formula 2 cars were racing their own race within the F1 in the same events to fill the field, which provided fellow Germans like Kurt Ahrens, Gerhard Mitter, Dieter Quester the opportunity to enter the German Grand Prix. As the F2 was counted differently, they did not appear in the F1 results, as e.g. 1967 German Grand Prix.

Hahne got himself a March 701 for 1970, but could not qualify for the 1970 German Grand Prix which was held at the Hockenheimring that year though, hardly a track were skill mattered most. Hahne claimed that chassis and engine were among the worst of the many March and Cosworth delivered that year. Ronnie Peterson showed later at Silverstone that this very car could reach adequate times, and Hahne retired. Rather than proving the quality of the car, this might have rather given an early indication that Peterson was a master of driving fast with below-average cars, as he would show in the future.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Team	WDC
1967	Lola	RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER Ret	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX			Lola	NA
1968	Lola	SAF	ESP	MON	BEL	DUT	FRA	GBR	GER 10	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX		Lola	NA
1970	March	SAF	ESP	MON	BEL	DUT	FRA	GBR	GER DNQ	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	March	NA