Georg Plasa

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Georg Plasa (born April 9, 1960 in Munich ; † July 10, 2011 in Rome ) was a German racing driver .

Life

Plasa specialized in hill climbing. In 2011 he competed in the European Hill Climb Championship . Before that, from 2006 to 2009 he won the FIA Hillclimb Cup four times in a row .

He has won the ADAC mountain champion title and the Alpen-Danube Cup several times . He was also the winner of the German mountain trophy and the international Austrian mountain cup . Plasa was an active member of Scuderia Magra , a motorsport club founded in Munich in 1971, and the Motorsport Club am Tegernsee , with whose applicant license he also started. He lived in Warngau in Upper Bavaria and ran a motorsport business in his home town. In addition, he worked as an author for the motorsport magazine Speedweek .

On July 10, 2011, Georg Plasa had a serious accident at the eighth round of the 2011 European Championship, the 50th Coppa Bruno Carotti in Rieti, Italy . He came off the track with his self-built BMW-134 - Judd -V8 and hit a rock wall with almost no brakes at over 200 km / h. Despite immediate resuscitation measures, only his death could be determined in the Gemelli clinic in Rome. Death is said to have occurred while being transported in the rescue helicopter.

successes

  • 1996 overall winner in the Group H Mountain Cup
  • 1997 overall winner in the Group H Mountain Cup
  • 1997 German mountain trophy for touring cars
  • 1999 German automobile mountain champion
  • 2002 Winner of the Group H Mountain Cup (Division 3)
  • 2003 FIA Hill Climb Challenge
  • 2004 FIA Hill Climb Challenge
  • 2006 FIA Hill Climb Cup
  • 2007 FIA Hill Climb Cup
  • 2008 FIA Hill Climb Cup (first place in both regions)
  • 2009 FIA Hill Climb Cup (Second place in Region 1; First place in Region 2)

Records

Plasa holds the current course record for touring cars with a self-built BMW E82 group E1 with Judd - V8 engine in the following mountain race:

With a self-built BMW E36 Group E1 with Judd V8 engine, he set the following course records, which are still valid:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About Georg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / free.pages.at
  2. ^ Berg-Ace Georg Plasa on the fourth ( Memento from March 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Georg Plasa at Scuderia Magra ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Georg Plasa at the Motorsport Club at Tegernsee ( Memento from August 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.speedweek.de/news/19649/Berg-EM-Weit-mehr-als-nur-Rennstrecken.html
  6. ↑ Georg Plasa has a fatal accident at www.100octane.de ( Memento from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.speedweek.de/art_20498.html
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Plasa, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2011
Place of death Rome