Achim Mörtl

Achim "Akime" Mörtl (born November 27, 1970 ) is an Austrian rally driver. He lives in Sankt Jakob im Rosental in Carinthia .

Mörtl started rallying in 1993 and entered the Austrian State Rally Championship with a Toyota Celica . In his first season he reached eighth place in the overall standings. This was followed in 1994 by the vice state championship in Group N and another second place overall in the Group N Challenge in 1995. From 1994 to 1997, Ilka Minor was Mörtl's co-driver, with whom he also had a relationship.

Achim Mörtl was Austrian rally champion three times, in 1996, 1999 and 2006. Mörtl also drove a few races to the World Rally Championship and made it into the Subaru works team in 2002. Achim Mörtl drove World Championship rallies (e.g. Corsica rally) for Alfred Inzinger's promotional team in the Subaru.

After moving to the two-wheeler warehouse, he finished 17th on a KTM 660 R in the Tunisia Cross Country Rally and the Morocco Cross Country Rally in 2003, and after a serious accident in the course of the Dubai But rally again on four wheels.

In 2007 he surprisingly ended his motorsport career. Today Achim works as a coach in top-class sport as well as in the health sector, and looks after several companies in health management. His love is the age-appropriate development of children, in his home region in the Rosental he has set up a heart project with "The Moved Child".

Achim also works as a specialist librarian at the Austrian Federal Sports Academy, where he is employed in the training of instructors and trainers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achim Mörtl on Burns & Subaru. In: motorline.cc from November 21, 2001