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Heini Walter - the fast Swiss bachelor

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Created on May 20, 2009

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Peter Wyss

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Heini Walter - Porsche RSK - Walter achieved many victories on the mountain in the Porsche RSK

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Heini Walter raced for 21 years

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Heini Walter - Ferrari 250 LM Spider - The Ferrari LM Spider was born out of necessity

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Heini Walter - Porsche Carrera 910 - Heini Walter at one of his last races

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Heini Walter - Sunbeam 1960 - Walter and Lier with the Sunbeam at the 1960 Monte Carlo Rally

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Porsche RSK (1963) - Heini Walter at the Gaisbergrennen 1963

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Porsche 550 RS (1957) - Mucky weather for Heini Walter in the Porsche 550 on the Schauinsland in 1957

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Summary

The Swiss Heini Walter achieved many successes in hill climbs and won several national and international titles. He passed away in 2009 and this article summarizes his most important successes and challenges.

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Fast host
Exclusion
EM title
GP start
Retiring

Estimated reading time: 5min

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Heini Walter - nobody called him Heinrich - should actually have lived in the mountains. He was born on July 28, 1927 in the remote Alpthal in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, and from the age of two Walter lived on the main road in Aesch, just outside Basel, until his death on Tuesday last week.It was less due to his birthplace that he celebrated his greatest successes in mountain races. Rather, it was the nearby Gempen - and a Bugatti. "Three days before the Gempen race in 1947, a 2-liter Bugatti was on display in Basel. As this racing car and I were of the same vintage, I couldn't help but buy it and drive it in the Gempen race. I came second behind Aebli in this magnificent Bugatti," Walter once explained in an AR interview about how he got into racing.

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