Dirk Raudies

Honda "RS 125 R" won by Dirk Raudies in 1993 (in the Neckarsulm two-wheeler museum )

Dirk Raudies (born June 17, 1964 in Rindenmoos near Biberach an der Riss ) is a former German motorcycle racer .

Career

Dirk Raudies, who is 1.62 meters tall and weighs between 48 and 53 kilograms, is married to the architect Birgit, who is two years younger and has a son and two daughters, and learned the trade of machine fitter .

Raudies began his career as a racing driver in 1986. He completed his first race in the junior series of the Yamaha Cup , and celebrated his first victory in the same year at the Nürburgring . The following year he took third place in the Yamaha Cup . In 1988 a 13th place followed at the European motorcycle championship . He finished seventh in the German championship .

The entry into the motorcycle world championship followed in 1989 . Dirk Raudies collected 29 points there and took 15th place in the final statement. In the European Championship of the same year , he made it onto the podium with third place behind Gabriele Debbia and Alessandro Gramigni . In 1990 the Biberacher became German champion for the first time. With 113 points, he ranked fifth in the World Cup. The following season , in which he was eighth at the World Cup, he turned professional. In 1992 Raudies celebrated his first Grand Prix victory in Brazil . In the World Cup ranking it was enough for sixth place.

His greatest achievement was winning the World Championship in the 125- cc class in the 1993 season on Honda . Dirk Raudies started in the Europa Raudies team , won nine of the 14 races held and had a 14-point lead over his closest rival, the Japanese Kazuto Sakata . In 1994 Raudies failed to defend his title despite three victories. At the end of the 1997 season he ended his World Cup career, in which he achieved 14 Grand Prix victories.

From 2004 to 2008 , and again since 2015 , Raudies commented on the races of the motorcycle world championship at Eurosport together with Ron Ringguth and Lenz Leberkern. Since 2009 he has been commenting on the races of the Superbike World Championship on Eurosport and Eurosport2 with Leberkern .

statistics

title

• 1990 - German 125cc champion on a Honda
• 1993 - Spanish 125cc champion on a Honda
• 1993 - 125 cc world champion on a Honda
• 14 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
1989	125 cc	Honda	7th	-	-	-	29	15th
1990	125 cc	Honda	14th	-	2	-	113	5.
1991	125 cc	Honda	13	-	-	-	81	8th.
1992	125 cc	Honda	12	1	2	-	91	6th
1993	125 cc	Honda	14th	9	11	6th	280	World Champion
1994	125 cc	Honda	14th	3	3	1	162	4th
1995	125 cc	Honda	13	1	4th	1	124.5	5.
1996	125 cc	Honda	15th	-	1	-	81	13.
1997	125 cc	Honda	15th	-	-	-	8th	25th
total			117	14th	23	8th	969.5

Awards

• ADAC Motorsporter of the Year 1993

Web links

• Short biography
• Dirk Raudies on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Raudies. Retrieved June 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ "Dirk Raudies: His dream of a Porsche ended on the motorcycle" by Jörg Richter, Sport-Bild from May 12, 1993, p. 62 ff