RIP Jochen Mass
RIP Jochen Mass
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freedman

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5,979 posts

229 months

Sunday 4th May 2025
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RIP

Edited by freedman on Sunday 4th May 20:48

dr_gn

16,715 posts

206 months

Sunday 4th May 2025
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Very sad news. Got his photo and autograph at Goodwood last year. RIP.




rallycross

13,675 posts

259 months

Sunday 4th May 2025
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thats sad news, a superb driver in anything (as shown by his many appearances at the Goodwood revival events).



coppice

9,474 posts

166 months

Monday 5th May 2025
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A tough andvery fast racer - as well as a long time serious yachtsman. And a popular fixture at Goodwood. The number of drivers from Seventies F1 is dwindling fast .

G321

647 posts

226 months

Monday 5th May 2025
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RIP Jochen.
I have great memories of watching him in group C all those years ago. Peak motorsport for me

rlw

3,538 posts

259 months

Monday 5th May 2025
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G321 said:
RIP Jochen.
I have great memories of watching him in group C all those years ago. Peak motorsport for me
And Group 5. What a driver. RIP.

generationx

8,785 posts

127 months

Monday 5th May 2025
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Dad had the pleasure of interviewing him for the American Mercedes Club magazine (The Star) a few years ago and had only good things to say. Motorsport legend.

F355GTS

3,837 posts

277 months

Monday 5th May 2025
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Very sad, I thought I watched him die some years ago at Goodwood, coming out of the chicane he rolled a Ferrari Squalo into one of the plant holders

Helped out of the car by one of the other competitors (forget the driver's name) Maserati 250 techno?

Digga

45,589 posts

305 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Sad news. I never met him, but a Canadian friend who travels over for all the Goodwood events has, several times, and said he was an exceptionally friendly and generous guy. Obviously great race driver too.

RIP

Turbobanana

7,748 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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My son has this hanging on his bedroom wall:



I bought it after I went to Le Mans for the first time in 1989. It shows the winning Mercedes driven by Mass, co-driven by Manuel Reuter and Stanley Dickens. Mass was always a firm favourite thereafter.

As a side note, just how big a legend do you have to be to get an obituary on Pistonheads? Not a mention on the front page.

Byker28i

82,531 posts

239 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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dr_gn said:
Very sad news. Got his photo and autograph at Goodwood last year. RIP.
Saw him, stood and listened to his interview on the stand and enjoyed that.. Didn't know he had had a stroke in Feb.

coppice

9,474 posts

166 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Turbobanana said:
My son has this hanging on his bedroom wall:



I bought it after I went to Le Mans for the first time in 1989. It shows the winning Mercedes driven by Mass, co-driven by Manuel Reuter and Stanley Dickens. Mass was always a firm favourite thereafter.

As a side note, just how big a legend do you have to be to get an obituary on Pistonheads? Not a mention on the front page.
Oh , you need to have had multiple F1 wins - because nothing else counts , right ? And preferably to have been racing in Grands Prix within the last 30 years maximum. Because history only started about 1987. Same thing happened when the great Dan Gurney died - who he ?

Biggles Flies Undone

440 posts

23 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Turbobanana said:
My son has this hanging on his bedroom wall:



I bought it after I went to Le Mans for the first time in 1989. It shows the winning Mercedes driven by Mass, co-driven by Manuel Reuter and Stanley Dickens. Mass was always a firm favourite thereafter.

As a side note, just how big a legend do you have to be to get an obituary on Pistonheads? Not a mention on the front page.
Mass should definitely qualify under that. A fantastic driver and seemingly a very decent chap as well. An F1 winner and Le Mans winner. Not a bad CV to have...

GreatScott2016

2,188 posts

110 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Always sad to hear things like this. Never met him, but he sounded like a lovely and talented guy. RIP.

Stick Legs

8,105 posts

187 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Never heard a bad word about him, and seen some amazing driving by him.

The Driver's lounge in Valhalla will welcome him with open arms.

The Pistonsdead

6,123 posts

229 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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RIP

Turbobanana

7,748 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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I said:
As a side note, just how big a legend do you have to be to get an obituary on Pistonheads? Not a mention on the front page.
I see that an obituary has now been posted: thank you, Pistonheads, I withdraw my comment.

Koln-RS

4,076 posts

234 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Also met him with Derek Bell.
From a golden, but dangerous, era of real drivers and gentlemen

simon-tigjs

175 posts

119 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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When I was but a boy, with my best friend, at Silverstone, for the 6 hrs endurance Mr Mass told us to push of when we were we shouldn't have been . Security. What was that !
Later that day a certain Mr J Stewart blew our tent over with his Helicopter when he landed alongside the camping field.
Those were the days. Up close and personal to all the action
RIP JM. you crammed more into your shortish years than most .

TWPC

899 posts

183 months

Tuesday 6th May 2025
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Koln-RS said:
Also met him with Derek Bell.
From a golden, but dangerous, era of real drivers and gentlemen
RIP Jochen.

He was an important part of my teenage brain's perception of the sporting world in the 1980s, dominated as it was by the following:

Group C - Porsche 956/962
F1 - McLaren, Williams
Group B - Audi, Peugeot (flashes of Lancia)
Cricket - Windies, Essex/Middlesex
Tennis - Lendl, Becker
Football - Liverpool, Germany
America's Cup - Australia II, Dennis Connor