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Riot in Cologne - About the ongoing dispute between the Kremer and Loos Porsche racing teams

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Created in 2015

Reading time 11min

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Rainer Braun

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Hallo Fahrerlager

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Hallo Fahrerlager

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Dauerkrach der Porsche-Rennställe - Kremer und Loos

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Eiszeit - Wegen Vertragsstreitigkeiten um Nachwuchsmann Stefan Bellof haben sich die Herren Loos und Braun nicht mehr viel zu sagen.

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Chefgespräch - John Fritzpatrick, Kremer-Brüder Erwin und Manfred 1974

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Gute Zeiten - Loos 1973 im Porsche 917

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Schlechte Zeiten - Loos 1999 mit Negativ-Schlagzeilen.

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Triumph am Ring - Loos-Pilot Stommelen schlägt Kremer-Mann Wollek im DRM-Finale 1977. Manfred Schurti und Ehrengast Jackie Stewart komplettieren das Podium.

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Damen-Kränzchen - Rennfahrerfrauen Schenken, Hezenanns, Stommelen (Bildmitte) sowie Loos-Verehrerinnen 1977 am Ring.

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Kriegszustand - Georg Loos und Erwin Kremer (linke Seite) tragen ihre Privatfehden immer und überall aus. In der Startrunde des DRM-Laufs von 1979. Ludwig gewinnt in diesem Jahr zehn von elf Rennen.

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Alles hört auf mein Kommando - Loos mit seinem Adlatus Rüdiger "Meck" Hagen, ADAC-Funktionär Georg Schleich sowie den Leih-Piloten Henri Pescarolo und Brain Redman, der zum Rennen stets seinen mobielen Stiftzahn entfernt.

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Summary

Kremer and Loos, two big racing teams from Cologne, did not always have their hay on the same stage. They were both successful, albeit on different paths. Rainer Braun tells the story of the long-running feud and illustrates it with pictures from the time.

This article contains the following chapters

Kremer strikes back
Winning and drinking
Scandal with "Sir Edwin"
A helicopter as a status symbol
Loos goes into hiding

Estimated reading time: 11min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Our report is taken from the 1st volume from 2007 of the popular book series "Hallo Fahrerlager" by Rainer Braun. Cologne is the secret racing capital of the 70s. Rolf Stommelen and Jochen Mass live here, Ford, Toyota and Renault are involved in works racing. The Capri RS and Escort RS are constantly on the road to success, Ford sports boss Michael Kranefuß and multi-manager Domingos Piedade are just as much at home in the cathedral city as the Kremer brothers with their successful Porsche racing team. And then there is Georg Loos, amateur driver with an impressive fleet of cars (including a Ferrari 512 M, McLaren M8F, Mirage, 917 Turbo Spider), a magnificent villa in the elegant Marienburg district, guarded by two huge Great Danes. The real estate and stock market businessman initially raced his expensive sports cars himself for several years before deciding to compete on a grand scale under the name "GELO Racing" with his own racing team, Porsche racing cars and high-end professionals, just like Kremer. From this moment, around 1974, the dispute between the two Porsche teams began. And I, as head of sports at the Cologne-based "Auto Zeitung" and track reporter, was of course right in the middle of it...

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