Helga Heinrich-Steudel

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Helga Steudel at a race on the Schleizer Dreieck in 1963 on a RE 125

Helga Heinrich-Steudel b. Steudel (born May 4, 1939 in Görschnitz , now part of Elsterberg ) is a former German motorcycle and automobile racing driver .

Helga Heinrich-Steudel is the first female motorcycle racer to win a race at the Sachsenring - at that time still under her birth name Steudel . Today she lives in Mylau in the Vogtland .

Career

Helga Heinrich-Steudel came to street racing after her first skill and rallies and competed in her first motorcycle race on the Bautzen motorway ring in 1959 with a 350 Jawa . From 1960 she started with an MZ RE 125 in the 125 cm³ ID class. She achieved her first racing victories on August 25, 1963 at the Geyer hill climb and on September 29, 1963 on the Dresden Autobahn spider .

On July 17, 1965 Heinrich-Steudel won the Sachsenring in the race of the 125 cm³ badge driver, which was held as part of the GDR Grand Prix for the motorcycle world championship , in very adverse weather conditions. She achieved further victories on the Schleizer Dreieck , Frohburger Dreieck and the Lückendorfer hill climb on the MZ RE.

There was a disappointment that, according to the FIM statutes, she was not granted a license to take part in the GDR championship or international motorcycle races, although Heinrich-Steudel fulfilled the requirements every year from 1963. She ended her motorcycling career in late 1967.

On August 2, 1970, Heinrich Steudel had her comeback in motor racing at the Lückendorfer hill climb; she took fourth place in the Melkus RS 1000 . Their first victory in the automobiles they won on 7 September the 1974 Glasbach hill climb in also of Melkus with modified Wartburg engine built Wartburg Spider (B6). 1979 was her most successful year in automobile sport with an overall victory in the GDR best determination of the B6 (Spider) class and fifth overall in the GDR best determination of the B8 performance class (LK) II racing car. Heinrich-Steudel thus rose to LK I of the B8 racing car in a field with Ulli Melkus , Bernd Kasper , Frieder Kramer , Heiner Lindner and others.

At the end of 1983, Helga Heinrich-Steudel finally said goodbye to racing - primarily because of uncompetitive material. Almost a decade later, she got into a racing car again in 1992. Since 2004 she took part in Classic events in the Formula Easter ; back on the MZ RE 125 racing motorcycle since September 2007 .

In 2011 she competed in regularity tests as part of the GLPpro series and the ADMV CLASSIC CUP , in 2014 the now 75-year-old took part in several races.

literature

  • Thorsten Horn: Helga Heinrich-Steudel - The racing amazon from Vogtland , HB-Werbung and Verlag GmbH, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022495-9

Web links

Commons : Helga Heinrich-Steudel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Heinrich-Steudel. In: Forum - www.classic-motorrad.de. November 10, 2008, accessed December 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The 2011 season is up , blog entry on Helga Heinrich-Steudel's website ( memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Vogtlander wants to keep accelerating even at 75: Helga Heinrich-Steudel is planning 14 starts. In: Free Press . May 3, 2014, accessed December 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich-Steudel, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steudel, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Görschnitz, today part of Elsterberg