Spa, Avus, Zandvoort & Zolder

Various Dates in 1965

Frank de Jong, who runs a website dedicated to touring car racing results ( http://touringcarracing.net/ ), searched his database and discovered the following results involving a Pontiac GTO in Europe.

The drivers include the Belgian Chris Tuerlinx (sometimes spelled Tuerlinckx). He appears in a number of races driving American cars such as Corvettes or Camaros in Europe. In addition, he co-drove a Shelby GT350 at LeMans in 1967 with Claude Dubois, the European Shelby distributor. He died in a road accident going home from the 1973 Spa race in May of that year.

The second driver mentioned is Robert Huhn. Huhn is a German driver associated with Abarth and Porsche (910′s and 914/6 among others) as a member of Scuderia Lufthansa. I understand he was a pilot for Lufthansa in addition to driving their race cars.

Among the questions to which we need answers are:

• Are there any other results for these cars in European racing? Is there any other published information on this car?
• The Avus and Zolder races were one day apart, is there a possibility that they refer to the same car driven by two different drivers?
• Does anyone have any contact information for Robert Huhn?
• We are always interested in any documentation available, i.e. photos entry lists, results lists, remembrances, programs, etc.

Chris Tuerlinx of Belgium on the grid for the Zolder round of the 1965 European Touring Car Championship. (Photo Courtesy Frank de Jong Touring Car Racing)