1 June 1986(1986-06-01) (aged 32) Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality
Austrian
Active years
1984
Teams
Osella
Entries
8 [1]
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Career points
0
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
1984 San Marino Grand Prix
Last entry
1984 Portuguese Grand Prix
Josef Anton Gartner (24 January 1954 – 1 June 1986)[2] was a Formula One and sports car endurance driver from Austria. After a successful lower formula career, including a win in the Formula Two Pau Grand Prix, he participated in eight Formula One Grands Prix for Osella during the 1984 season, scoring no points. He was killed in an accident at the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans.
^"Jo Gartner profile at ESPN F1". Gartner's Formula One statistics. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
^"Motorsport Memorial - Jo Gartner". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
championship points. "JoGartner profile at ESPN F1". Gartner's Formula One statistics. Retrieved 23 June 2013. "Motorsport Memorial - JoGartner". Motorsport...
Osella entered a second car for half of the races. Formula Two driver JoGartner was behind the wheel. ATS took German Formula 3 driver Gerhard Berger...
roof and was destroyed, but Nielsen escaped without injury. In 1986, JoGartner drove a Porsche 962C into the Mulsanne barriers and was killed instantly...
Osella retained Ghinzani and gave the second car to the young Austrian JoGartner. Ghinzani was able to score points when he finished fifth at the 1984...
on 34.5 points. Eddie Cheever (Alfa Romeo), Philippe Alliot (RAM) and JoGartner (Osella) were all outed in a first lap crash which started when Riccardo...
1900) 1985 – Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (b. 1918) 1986 – JoGartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1958) 1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer...
behind Lauda and Johansson a further lap back. Completing the top six were JoGartner in the second Osella and Gerhard Berger in the second ATS, though neither...
claim pole while being 2.637 seconds slower than 26th and last qualifier JoGartner. During the off-season, Toleman ran into difficulties over tyre supply...
finishing 12th and last in his ATS-BMW. The third Austrian in the race, JoGartner, retired after only 6 laps with engine troubles in his Osella-Alfa Romeo...
Porsche Curves. Soon after however, there was a far worse incident when JoGartner was involved in a violent accident at very high speed as he accelerated...
Mulsanne Straight in the 1980s. Jean-Louis Lafosse was killed in 1981, and JoGartner in 1986; in 1984 a French track marshal was killed in an accident at the...
suddenly into the barrier. JoGartner 1 June, 1986 Porsche 962C Kremer Racing Mulsanne Straight Race At 2:10 am on Sunday, Gartner's Porsche suffered from...
who raced with Minardi in 2005 until being dropped after eleven races. JoGartner, who drove in eight races in 1984 for Osella. He was killed in a crash...
and JoGartner took over. A lap later the suspension broke and the car veered off the Mulsanne Straight in the middle of the night and Gartner was killed...
(1,365.660 mi) IMSA GT Championship 1986 Bob Akin Hans-Joachim Stuck JoGartner Bob Akin Motor Racing Porsche 962 Y 2,244.745 km (1,394.820 mi) IMSA GT...
DNPQ 19 Guido Daccò Ret JoGartner DNQ 8 1982 Merzario 822 BMW SIL HOC THR NÜR MUG VAL PAU SPA HOC DON MAN PER MIS JoGartner 6 Ret 10 Ret Ret 7 Ret 15...
clocked by radar travelling at 407 km/h (253 mph). Jean-Louis Lafosse and JoGartner would ultimately suffer from fatal high speed accidents in 1981 and 1986...
officially entered only one car were not eligible for points. This affected JoGartner (Osella) and Gerhard Berger (ATS) who finished fifth and sixth at the...
second place, with a 962C a further three laps adrift in the hands of JoGartner and Tiff Needell. Due to safety concerns over high speeds, by the time...
the 962 were Kenny Acheson, Dudley Wood and Jean-Louis Schlesser while JoGartner/David Hobbs/Guy Edwards drove the second car. Like Joest, Richard Lloyd's...
pre-qualifying for the 1997 race and the first during the race itself since JoGartner in the 1986 edition. The No. 26 G-Drive Racing Oreca 03 was disqualified...
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