Alois Wiesböck

Alois Wiesböck (born July 31, 1950 in Niederbergkirchen ) is a German motorcycle track racer who drove both speedway and long track races on grass and sand tracks. Wiesböck began his career in the late 1960s and had his greatest successes in the 1970s.

Sporting successes

The culmination of his career was winning the long track world championship in 1979 in Marianske Lazne . For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Carstens. In 1978 Wiesböck only lost the long-track world championship title in the decisive play-off against later world champion Egon Müller . In 1974 Wiesböck won the World Cup bronze medal behind Egon Müller and Ivan Mauger from New Zealand . At the 1982 World Cup in Korskro, Denmark, he again secured second place. Also in 1979 Wiesböck reached a speedway world final for the first and only time in Chorzów (Poland), but was only 16th and last with one point.

Alois Wiesböck also won the German Long Track Championship several times and drove in the Speedway Bundesliga for the MSC "Ipf" Bopfingen. In 1982 he won the World Cup bronze medal with the national speedway team at the London White City Stadium.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Alois Wiesböck ended his racing career and continued his commitment as an engine tuner for young drivers, which he had already started in the 1980s.

Personal

Alois Wiesböck also has an identical twin brother, Josef Wiesböck, who was also a motorcycle track racer. In his hometown Niederbergkirchen, after Wiesböck won the World Cup in 1979, a street and a square were named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bundesarch: Sports prizes (silver laurel): Awarding of the silver laurel leaf to motorcycle athlete Alois Wiesböck, signature BArch B 122/29156