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Hans Heyer - Man with a hat

Name: BMW 2002 1970
Brand: BMW

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Created on January 23, 2018

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Daniel Reinhard

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Archiv Heyer / Hallo Fahrerlager

Klaus D. Lehmann-Gräve

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Hans Heyer and his Lancia Beta Montecarlo "Fruit of the Loom"

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Hans Heyer - the collector with Kojima F1

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Hans Heyer the collector, here with a Kojima F1

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Hans Heyer, the collector with Ford GT40, Mercedes 190SL and Brabham BT44B

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Heyer Hans, the collector with the team jackets

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Hans Heyer - Road construction, recycling and asphalt production in Mönchengladbach

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Hans Heyer starts 1970 as a newcomer in a customer car and immediately shocks his team colleagues with a victory

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BMW 2002 TI (1970) - Grand Prix of Touring Cars at the Nürburgring 1970 - Three BMW 2002s from Team Koepchen-BMW-Tuning in a row, with the car of Clemens Schickentanz (D) and Hans Heyer (D) at the front.

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Team Schnitzer competed in Le Mans for the newly founded company BMW Motorsport GmbH (BMW M) with a BMW 2800CS (1972). The drivers were the Swiss René Herzog and the German Hans Heyer.

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At the Norisring, Heyer's Escort RS is put in the BMW pincers

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Ford Capri (1979) - Hans Heyer wins the Division II race at Hockenheim in a Capri Turbo ahead of Winkelhock in a BMW 320 Schnitzer Turbo

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Hans Heyer on Lancia Beta Montecarlo against Ford Capri Zakspeed Turbo at the DRM in Hockenheim in 1981

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Hans Heyer in a Lancia Beta Montecarlo at the DRM Hockenheim 1981

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Hans Heyer with Herbert Müller at the 1000km Nürburgring 1981

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Hans Heyer in a Lancia Beta Montecarlo at the DRM Nürburgring 1981

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Hans Heyer in a Lancia Beta Montecarlo at the DRM Spa 1981

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Hans Heyer and team colleague Sigi Müller in a Lancia Beta Montecarlo at the 1981 DRM Nürburgring

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The BMW 'Dream Team' of 1995 - Hahne, Schüler, Fritzinger, Braun, Weiss, Steckkönig, Aaltonen, Heyer

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Summary

Hans Heyer was hardly ever seen without his Tyrolean hat. But the resourceful racing driver also has other special characteristics. One of them is that he never minces his words. All the better to listen to him!

This article contains the following chapters

How an Opel became a BMW
From Ford to Lancia
The German Lancia
Success by announcement
When limits are reached

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Hans Heyer became known above all for his trademark, the Tyrolean hat. The hat dates back to his go-karting days and at some point became his personal trademark. In karting, he often trained outside all day, so he wore either the helmet or a ski cap to avoid getting cold all the time. But the cap was often used as a cleaning rag by his mechanic. A good friend from Bavaria, Karl Heinz Peters, wore a Tyrolean hat, which Heyer then confiscated one day. To this day, this hat has the status of a pit pass. When Hans-Josef Heyer was born in Mönchengladbach on March 16, 1943, the war had been raging for three and a half years. As a result of various bombing raids, Matthias Heyer, Hans' father, built his own air raid shelter. As the owner of the company "Matthias Heyer Strassenbaustoffe", founded in 1934, this was naturally easier for him than most others. Mönchengladbach was the target of four more bombing raids before the end of the war, with one even hitting the company premises. However, the Heyers survived this terrible time unscathed.

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