Willi Heeks

Willi Heeks ( born February 13, 1922 in Moorlage; † August 13, 1996 in Bocholt ) was a German racing driver.

Willi Heeks began just after the Second World War with the motorsport. In 1950, he celebrated the first successes with a Formula 2 racing cars of AFM. He won the Maipokal at Hockenheim and won a Formula 2 race in Dessau. In 1951, he reached the third place in the Eifel Race at the Nürburgring.

Heeks belonged to the German racers of the early 1950s, which drove their race almost exclusively in their home country. As the international motorsport circus returned to Germany and again a Grand Prix was driven by Germany for the first time, also Heeks was there. His debut in the Drivers' Championship he gave in 1952, when he was at the Nurburgring with an AFM U8 at the start. As in 1953, when he contested the race with a Veritas Meteor, he was forced to retire prematurely the Grand Prix. That Heeks was a good racer, he showed in 1953, when he was on the Nordschleife long time before top French driver Louis Rosier in a Ferrari 500.

Heeks driving in races until the end of the 1950s, but moved its activities to the touring cars. For long distance races usually his compatriot Erwin Bauer was his partner that the two disputed with a Mercedes- Benz 220S as the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring.