Herbert Linge

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Herbert Fritz Linge{{Cite web |title=Motorsport Memorial - Herbert Linge |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/LWFWIW/focusLWFWIW.php?db2=LWF&db=s&n=2885|access-date=31 May 2024 |website=Motorsport Memorial}} (11 June 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German racing and rally driver. As an employee of Porsche,{{cite news|title=Herbert Linge proclaimed honorary citizen of Weissach|url=http://www.porsche.com/pap/aboutporsche/pressreleases/pag/archive2006/quarter4/?pool=international-de&id=2006-10-27|access-date=18 January 2011|newspaper=Porsche Press Release|year=2006}} he was involved in many events, and later also in motorsport safety.

Life and career

Herbert Linge was born on 11 June 1928.{{cite web|title=Herbert Linge|url=http://www.carelgodindebeaufort.nl/linge.html|work=arelgodindebeaufort.nl|access-date=18 January 2011}}

Linge took part in many 24 Hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s,{{cite web|title=4.5 PORSCHE 917 (1969)|url=http://www.imca-slotracing.com/Porsche917.htm|work=imca-slotracing.com|access-date=18 January 2011}} even with a Porsche 917. He became famous for being the co-driver of Hans Herrmann in the 1954 Mille Miglia, when their low Porsche 550 passed under a closed railroad crossing, with both ducking under the dashboard. In 1960, Linge won the Tour de Corse rally in a Porsche SC 90. He is still the only German to win the event.

The Deutscher Motor Sport Bund's DMSB-Staffel, founded in 1972 by Linge for the Oberste Nationale Sportbehörde as ONS-Staffel, is considered the first mobile track marshalling crew, equipped with fast cars like the Porsche 914 or Porsche 911, carrying fire extinguishers and doctors in order to arrive quickly at a crash site.

Linge died on 5 January 2024, at the age of 95.[https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.rennfahrer-stuntman-und-porsche-urgestein-herbert-linge-ist-gestorben.bd1bf2e7-7530-4a99-8936-6290b310fb8b.html Herbert Linge ist gestorben] {{in lang|de}}