Horst Kroll - Wikipedia - Recent changes [en]

Formula Vee, the low-cost starter series, yielded his first championship in 1964.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=John R. |date=July 2002 |title=InterView Horst Kroll |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3853356 |journal=Vintage Racecar |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= 10.2307/3853356|issn= |jstor=3853356|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Formula Vee, the low-cost starter series, yielded his first championship in 1964.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=John R. |date=July 2002 |title=InterView Horst Kroll |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3853356 |journal=Vintage Racecar |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= 10.2307/3853356|issn= |jstor=3853356|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Wins in a 356 Carrera at Mosport, the road course since named Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, and Harewood Acres, another airport circuit, led to Quebec star Jacques Duval inviting Kroll to co-drive his Porsche 904 GTS in long-distance races. Duval entered them in the 1967 Sebring 12 Hours, then the major endurance event in North America, after the duo finished third in their first outing, Mosport's 6-Hour Sundown Grand Prix. Success at Sebring - second in class, 16th overall - prompted a return in 1968 in Duval's Porsche 911 S for third in class, 9th overall.<ref>Sebring 12 Hours, 1967, 1968.<ref>racingsportscars.com. Retrieved February 10, 2025</ref>

Wins in a 356 Carrera at Mosport, the road course since named Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, and Harewood Acres, another airport circuit, led to Quebec star Jacques Duval inviting Kroll to co-drive his Porsche 904 GTS in long-distance races.

Duval entered them in the 1967 Sebring 12 Hours, then the major endurance event in North America, after the duo finished third in their first outing, Mosport's 6-Hour Sundown Grand Prix. Success at Sebring - second in class, 16th overall - prompted a return in 1968 in Duval's Porsche 911 S for third in class, 9th overall.<ref>Sebring 12 Hours, 1967, 1968, racingsportscars.com. Retrieved February 10, 2025</ref>

"Horst was as accomplished behind the wheel as he was under the hood of a Porsche," Duval wrote in his memoir, crediting Kroll for preparing the cars for the endurance races as well as setting the pace.<ref>Jacques Duval, "From Gilbert Becaud to Enzo Ferrari," EditionsQuebec Amerique, 2007. Page 486.</ref>

"Horst was as accomplished behind the wheel as he was under the hood of a Porsche," Duval wrote in his memoir, crediting Kroll for preparing the cars for the endurance races as well as setting the pace.<ref>Jacques Duval, "From Gilbert Becaud to Enzo Ferrari," EditionsQuebec Amerique, 2007. Page 486.</ref>

Mike Rahal, whose son Bobby would become an Indy car champion, recruited Kroll to co-drive a Porsche 906 in the 1971 Watkins Glen, NY, 6-Hour. Despite failing to finish they partnered again in Rahal's Lotus 47 in the 1972 Glen 500-km and the 250-mile Daytona Finale where they stood 5th in GTU, 11th overall.<ref>"Daytona Finale, 1972." racingssportscars.com. Retrieved February 10, 2025.</ref>

Mike Rahal, whose son Bobby would become an Indy car champion, recruited Kroll to co-drive a Porsche 906 in the 1971 Watkins Glen, NY, 6-Hour. Despite failing to finish they partnered again in Rahal's Lotus 47 in the 1972 Glen 500-km and the 250-mile Daytona Finale where they stood 5th in GTU, 11th overall.<ref>"Daytona Finale, 1972." racingssportscars.com. Retrieved February 10, 2025.</ref>

Kroll's best Sebring result came in 1979, second in GTU and seventh overall, driving a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR with Rudi Bartling, a fellow member in Toronto's Deutscher Automobil Club. <ref>racingsportscars.com. Racing Sportscars. Retrieved February 10, 2025.</ref>Kroll won the Sundown Grand Prix with the DAC's Harry Bytzek in the Bytzek RSR in 1975

Kroll's best Sebring result came in 1979, second in GTU and seventh overall, driving a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR with Rudi Bartling, a fellow member in Toronto's Deutscher Automobil Club. <ref>Sebring 12 Hours, 1979, racingsportscars.com. Racing Sportscars. Retrieved February 10, 2025.</ref>Kroll won the Sundown Grand Prix with the DAC's Harry Bytzek in the Bytzek RSR in 1975

[[File:Horst Kroll scores another win.jpg|thumb|Wife Hildegard and two-year-old Birgit share the moment.]]

[[File:Horst Kroll scores another win.jpg|thumb|Wife Hildegard and two-year-old Birgit share the moment.]]