Otto Stuppacher

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File:Otto Stuppacher GP Italia 1976.jpg

Stuppacher at the 1976 Italian Grand Prix

Otto Leopold Stuppacher (3 March 1947 – 15 August 2001)<ref name="WATN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=mem>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a racing driver from Vienna, Austria.<ref name="WATN" /> He competed in hill-climbs and sports car racing before entering 3 Formula One Grands Prix with the ÖASC Racing Team in Template:F1, with a Tyrrell 007. He was refused entry to the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, along with teammate Karl Oppitzhauser, despite trying to raise a petition from the other teams.

At the 1976 Italian Grand Prix he failed to qualify by a considerable margin, but subsequently he was promoted up the order when three other cars had their times disallowed due to fuel irregularities. Unfortunately, Stuppacher had already left the circuit and returned home, and was unable to get back to the circuit in time to race. The three demoted runners were eventually re-admitted after the withdrawal of Stuppacher, Arturo Merzario, and Guy Edwards.

Stuppacher failed to qualify at his other two attempts in 1976, the 1976 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1976 USA East Grand Prix, the latter seeing him over 27 seconds off the time of pole-sitter James Hunt. To date, this gap between pole-position time and slowest time during qualifying in an official Formula One race is a record that still stands today.Template:Citation needed

It is not clear how much racing he did after 1976, and very little is known about him until he was found dead in his Vienna flat in 2001.

He had a sister who raced in harness racing as Elisabeth Stuppacher, who was the Austrian champion from 1993 to 2000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their mother Helene Musa was notable in Austrian harness racing circles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Complete Formula One World Championship participations

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1976	ÖASC Racing Team	Tyrrell 007	Cosworth V8	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	USA Template:Small	JPN	NC	0
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External links

• Biography at F1 Rejects

References

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