Happy Birthday, Dieter Glemser - The "Swabian Arrow" celebrates his 80th birthday
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The man was an absolute stroke of luck for any team boss: calm, confident, easy to look after, loyal, incredibly fast and not even a material murderer. We are talking about Dieter Glemser from Warmbronn near Leonberg. The former Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and Ford works driver celebrates his 80th birthday on June 28, 2018. He is definitely worth looking back on, which Rainer Braun does in detail in this portrait.
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The man was an absolute stroke of luck for any team boss: calm, confident, easy to look after, loyal, incredibly fast and not even a material murderer. We are talking about Dieter Glemser from Warmbronn near Leonberg. The former Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and Ford works driver celebrates his 80th birthday on June 28, 2018. It is always worth looking back on a career rich in highlights. I will never forget as a young reporter at the Nürburgring in 1963 watching the qualifying for the Grand Prix of Touring Cars at the Brünnchen, better known at the time as the International 6-Hour Race. The focus of interest was, of course, the works entry of the three Mercedes 300 SEs, one of which was driven by the Dieter Glemser/Eugen Böhringer team. First, the diminutive Böhringer drove the 300 wildly across the medium-fast Brünnchen right-hand bend several times with one front wheel in the air. Then the same car presented a completely different picture - Glemser now completed his training laps calmly and unspectacularly. A spectator next to me whispered to his companion: "My God, he's so slow now, the other one was much faster".
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