Heinz Schiller (Frauenfeld, Switzeland, 25 January 1930 – Montana, Switzeland, 26 March 2007), was a racing driver from Switzerland.
He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on August 5, 1962. He retired from the race, scoring no championship points. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
Heinz Schiller. A former speedboat champion, Heinz started racing a Porsche sports car during the mid 1950s. Second in the sports 1500cc class in the 1957 Mille Miglia, his Porsche RS was sixth in the following year’s Pau Grand Prix.
He mainly competed in hillclimbs until 1962 when he drove in a number of non-championship Formula 1 races. Although his Porsche 718 was run by Ecurie Filipinetti, he and team-mate Jo Siffert were officially entered as the Ecurie Nationale Suisse. Sixth at Brussels was the best result of Schiller’s year.
He was 12th in the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hours with a Porsche 356B Abarth before racing Filipinetti’s Lotus 24-BRM in that year’s German GP. He started 20th of the 26 starters but suffered engine failure after four laps of the Nürburgring.
He only raced in F1 once more when he finished third at Pau at the start of 1963. Away from single-seaters, he drove the team’s GT cars to a class win on the Ollon-Villars hillclimb and twice raced a works Porsche at Le Mans. He retired from the 1963 race but finished 10th a year later when sharing a 904/4 GTS with Gerhard Koch.
He later ran a Porsche dealership in Geneva before retiring.
