Georg Plasa
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:
- 2011 Trier hill climb 1: 38.783
- 2011 Ecce Homo ( hill climb ) 3: 02.199
With a self-built BMW E36 Group E1 with Judd V8 engine, he set the following course records, which are still valid:
- 2009 Hillclimb Mickhausen 51,669
- 2009 Mountain Race Verzegnis 2: 38.946
- 2009 Rechbergrennen 2: 04.964
- 2007 St. Agatha hill climb 1: 12.696
- 2007 Ústecká (CZ) hill climb 1: 59.12
Web links
- Website of Rennsporttechnik Georg Plasa
- Georg Plasa Motorsport
- From the 1 Series Coupé to the racing car body of the BMW 134 at www.merkur-online.de
- Entry on Euromontagna
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About Georg ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Berg-Ace Georg Plasa on the fourth ( Memento from March 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Georg Plasa at Scuderia Magra ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Georg Plasa at the Motorsport Club at Tegernsee ( Memento from August 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.speedweek.de/news/19649/Berg-EM-Weit-mehr-als-nur-Rennstrecken.html
- ↑ Georg Plasa has a fatal accident at www.100octane.de ( Memento from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.speedweek.de/art_20498.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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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 |