Volkert Merl
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Template:Short description Volkert Merl (born 10 February 1944) is a retired German racing driver.
Merl primarily competed for Joest Racing throughout his career in the early 1980s competing in the World Sportscar Championship and Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM). He won the 1980 24 Hours of Daytona with Rolf Stommelen and Reinhold Joest in a Porsche 935 and placed second in 1983 DRM championship points in a Porsche 956. That same year, he also finished 4th in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Racing record
24 Hours of Le Mans results
| Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Class pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Template:Flagicon Meccarillos Racing | Template:Flagicon Bernard Béguin Template:Flagicon Claude Haldi |
Porsche 935-K3/80 | Gr. 5 SP 2.0+ |
37 | DNF | DNF |
| 1983 | Template:Flagicon Sorga S. A./Joest Racing | Template:Flagicon Mauricio de Narváez Template:Flagicon Clemens Schickentanz |
Porsche 956 | C | 361 | 4th | 4th |
| 1984 | Template:Flagicon New-Man Joest Racing Template:Flagicon Schornstein Racing Team |
Template:Flagicon Dieter Schornstein Template:Flagicon "John Winter" |
Porsche 956 | C1 | 340 | 5th | 5th |
External links
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