Bob Wollek was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He was killed on March 17, 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle to prepare for the 12 Hours of Sebring. City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 22nd 170 451 km² 260 km 800 km 17. ... The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport endurance race held at Sebring Raceway, a former Air Force base in Sebring, Florida. ...

Wollek had already won there in 1985 with A. J. Foyt, driving a Porsche 962. Growing over 50 years and still racing, he had develop a habit of riding bicyles to stay in form, especially for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he would ride across his home country in Tour de France style. A.J. Foyt A. J. Foyt (born Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. ... The Porsche 956 was a sports car built by Porsche. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Tour de France (French for Tour of France), often referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is a long-distance road bicycle racing competition for professionals held over three weeks in July in and around France. ...

Since the mid-1970s, he raced a Porsche 935 entered by the Georg Loos' Gelo Racing team from Cologne. The Porsche 935 was introduced in 1976, as the racing version of the 930 (911 Turbo), prepared for FIA Group 5 rules (similar to the Porsche 934 which was built for the more standard FIA Group 4). ... Cologne Cathedral with Hohenzollern Bridge Cologne (German: (help· info) [kœln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of...

During his three decades of sports car racing, almost exclusively on Porsches, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona four times and the DRM in 1982 and 1983, with Porsche 936 and Porsche 956 entered by Joest Racing. GTP sports cars racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 1991 Sportscar racing is a form of circuit racing, with cars that have two seats and enclosed wheel wells. ... Porsche (), properly pronounced as a two syllable word (porsh-eh, IPA: ) , is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ... The 24 Hours of Daytona is an automotive endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ... Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (German Racing Championship) or DRM as it was known as, the precessor of modern DTM, began as a touring car and GT race for A2 (BMW 2002) and A4 (BMW CSL) cars in 1972 in addition to the Rundstreckenmeisterschaft (German endurance saloon car championship), races were ran... The Porsche 936 was introduced in 1976 by Porsche as a successor to the Porsche 908 to compete in the FIA Group 6 sports car world championship, which it won (as did the Porsche 935 in its championship) . The open top, two seater spyder was powered by a 2140cc 540... The Porsche 956 was a race car built by Porsche which designed it in 1982 for FIA Group C racing. ... Established in 1978. ...

For many years, Monsieur Porsche challenged the factory teams with privately entered cars, as he was seldom part of the official Porsche crew. In 1981, he even raced a Group C-spec Porsche 917, about a decade after these cars were retired initially. Group C was a category of auto racing, and was introduced into sports car racing by the FIA (the governing body of World motor racing) during the early 1980s. ... Porsche 917/20 Pink Pig in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen Porsche 917/30 in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen The Porsche 917 (Type 917) gave Porsche its first overall wins at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971. ...

Wollek never managed to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, despite coming close in in a few of his thirty attempts. In 1997, his leading Porsche 911 GT1 suffered damage in a minor incident, so the factory entry had to retire. In 1998, Porsche scored a 1-2 win, but Bob was once again on the less lucky car. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Porsche 911 GT1 was a racing car designed for competition in the GT1 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and sold as a road car for homologation purposes. ...

After the 1998 season, Porsche retired it fastest cars from the FIA GT Championship, providing only Porsche 911 for the lower classes. In 2000, Wollek scored many class wins at the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) in a Porsche 996 GT3. FIA GT Championship The FIA world car racing series for Grand Touring cars. ... Porsche 911 A 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS The Porsche 911 is a sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. ... The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) is a series of automobile races, founded in 1999 by Don Panoz, and sanctioned by IMSA. The American Le Mans Series utilizes the rules and regulations of the Automobile Club de LOuest, which organizes the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, to... Porsche 996 with aero kit The Porsche Type 996 is a sports car, and the version of the Porsches 911 Carrera model sold from 1998 (as a 1999 model) through 2005. ...

Typically of many other racing drivers, Bob ran a car dealership for Jaguars. Jaguar Cars is a British-founded subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company famous for its luxury saloon and sports cars. ...

On March 17 2001, leaving the Sebring circuit from a practice session in a 12 hour race, he was struck from behind by a camper van and was killed instantly. On race day, the organisers held a one minute silence in his memory.

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