1. In endurance racing, Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989 with Sauber.
46 Facts About Jochen Mass
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Jochen Mass finished runner-up in the latter in 1973, having already taken victory at the 24 Hours of Spa alongside Hans-Joachim Stuck the year prior.
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Jochen Mass made his Formula One debut at the 1973 British Grand Prix with Surtees, making sporadic appearances before achieving a full-time seat in 1974.
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Jochen Mass moved to McLaren from the Canadian Grand Prix onwards, where he achieved his only race win at the curtailed 1975 Spanish Grand Prix.
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Jochen Mass was seriously injured at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, bruising his neck and fracturing vertebrae as his Arrows A3 rolled over during practice.
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Outside Formula One, Jochen Mass entered 12 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1972 to 1995, winning in 1989 alongside Manuel Reuter and Stanley Dickens, driving the Sauber C9, as well as finishing runner-up in the World Sportscar Championship, matching his result from 1984.
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Jochen Mass finished runner-up at Le Mans in 1982 with Porsche.
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Jochen Mass was the champion of the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft in 1985, as well as twice finishing runner-up in Interserie, all with Joest.
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Jochen Mass was a race-winner in the British Saloon Car Championship.
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Jochen Mass made frequent appearances at Goodwood events from the 1990s onwards, including the Festival of Speed and the Revival.
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In popular culture, Jochen Mass appeared as himself in Rush.
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Jochen Richard Mass was born on 30 September 1946 in Dorfen, Bavaria.
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Jochen Mass then quit working on a ship and started an apprenticeship at an Alfa Romeo dealership in Mannheim.
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Jochen Mass later lived in Southern France with his wife Bettina.
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Jochen Mass had two sons with his first wife Esti and two daughters with Bettina.
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Jochen Mass participated in 114 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 July 1973 at the British Grand Prix.
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Jochen Mass won one GP race, secured no pole positions, achieved 8 podiums and scored a total of 71 championship points.
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On 8 May 1982, Jochen Mass was involved in an incident with Gilles Villeneuve which led to the latter's death.
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Jochen Mass's seat was dislodged and he was flung from his car, landing heavily among the catch fencing at the opposite side of the track.
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Jochen Mass stopped his car, jumped out and ran back to Villeneuve's wrecked car.
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Jochen Mass went on to win that year's World Sportscar Championship.
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Jochen Mass finished second to Clay Regazzoni and Arturo Merzario in a November 1972 9-hour race at the Kyalami Circuit, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Jochen Mass, driving a Surtees TS-15, tied with Jean Pierre Beltoise in qualifying for the Jim Clark Memorial Formula Two auto race in April 1973 held at Hockenheim, both drivers recording times of 2 minutes, 2.8 seconds, for an average of 124.3 miles per hour.
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Jochen Mass placed second to Jean-Pierre Jarier in a Formula Two race at Nivelles, in June 1973.
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Jochen Mass had finished second in the first heat and third in the second.
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Jochen Mass completed his first Formula One race at the 1973 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.
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Jochen Mass soon was unhappy with the team, because John Surtees couldn't afford to pay him regularly and they were using cheap, low-quality material for the car which broke constantly.
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Jochen Mass blamed it on faulty material, while John Surtees insisted that Jochen Mass hit the wall somewhere on the track.
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Jochen Mass continued to race for the team for five more races until John Surtees agreed to let him out of his contract and Mass went on to sign with McLaren.
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At the last race of the season at Watkins Glen his replacement at Surtees Helmut Koinigg, whom Jochen Mass warned about the car on the flight to North America, died in an accident caused by suspension failure.
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Jochen Mass drove a McLaren-Ford to third place in the 1975 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
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Jochen Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix after leader, Rolf Stommelen's car hit a protective barrier, exploded into flames and catapulted into the crowd at the Montjuich circuit.
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Jochen Mass was declared the winner in his Texaco McLaren-Ford, when the race was stopped immediately after the accident.
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Merzario and Jochen Mass led an Alfa Romeo sweep of the first two positions in the 1975 Coppa Florio manufacturers championship automobile race at Pergusa.
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Jochen Mass was third in the 1975 French Grand Prix at Le Castellet.
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Jochen Mass won the eighth and final race of the 1976 World Sports Car Championship series.
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At the 1976 German Grand Prix Jochen Mass was in a good position to win his home Grand Prix.
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Jochen Mass was the only one to start on dry tires on a partially wet Nordschleife.
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Jochen Mass won both 20-lap heats of the 1977 Jim Clark Memorial race in Hockenheim.
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Jochen Mass' season proved disastrous, scoring no points, failing to qualify for three races and having to sit out the last three races after braking his leg during testing.
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Jochen Mass subsequently left the team and moved to Arrows for 1979 season.
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Jochen Mass' Arrows turned over several times at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix at Zeltweg.
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Jochen Mass was convinced to stop racing Formula One cars after an accident with Mauro Baldi at the 1982 French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard.
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Jochen Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989, driving a Sauber Mercedes C9.
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From 1993 to 1997, Jochen Mass was a Formula One co-commentator for the German broadcaster RTL.
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Jochen Mass died in Cannes, France on 4 May 2025 due to complications from a stroke that he suffered in February of the same year.