Udo Schütz
Udo Schütz (* January 1937 ) is a former German race car driver, sailors and today's entrepreneurs.
Life
Contactor began his racing career in the early 1960 's. With a Porsche 904 he had initial success and was soon hired by Porsche for plant operations. In 1967 he won with Joe Buzzetta on a Porsche 910, the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in 1969 with Gerhard Mitter on a Porsche 908/ 2, the Targa Florio. Overall contactor won 50 races and the German Sports Car Championship in 1966, he also contributed to winning the World Endurance Championship in 1969 for Porsche in. The relatively heavy and tall contactor, also called "Bull of soda ", but was rather unsuitable for flat racing car, especially when the cars were closed. So sticking his head even without a helmet out on training rides to Targa Florio 1967 Porsche 910 with the number 184, which is in the Porsche Museum today, on the windshield.
At the 24 - hour race at Le Mans in 1969 he had an accident after 199 laps in the 908- long-tail after a collision with the Porsche 917 of Gérard Larrousse at high speed heavy, was thrown from the car during the rollover, but only slightly injured. Since little later Gerhard Mitter had an accident during practice for the Grand Prix of Germany lethal contactor withdrew from racing. He stuck to his decision, even when the Scuderia Ferrari in 1970 for the Ferrari 512S sought appropriate driver.
Contactor focused on the contactor works in his native seltzer (Westerwald ), a nationally significant supplier of containers. "Container" was also the name of his racing yacht, which together with the Pinta and Rubin XII of Germany won the Admiral 's Cup in 1993. Let 2008 Contactor with modern materials again build a "container".