Herbert Stenger

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Herbert Stenger (born January 11, 1948 , † April 21, 2014 ), also known as "Der Berglöwe", was a German mountain racer and entrepreneur.

In his motorsport career he has been a European mountain champion , German automobile mountain champion, Austrian mountain champion and Bavarian and North Bavarian ADAC mountain champion several times .

The ADAC Nordbayern and the AvD named him Sportsman of the Year in 2001 and 2002.

Career

Herbert Stenger gained his first motorsport experience with an Opel Rekord Caravan in 1966 .

In 1969 he drove his first hill climb in a Ford Escort in Schlüchtern and on the Schottenring . From 1970 to 1972 he started at rally and slalom events. From 1973 Stenger got into hill climb motorsport with a Ford Capri built according to Group 1 and won several class and group victories by 1975.

In 1976 he also competed in international hillclimb races and just one year later he became vice European mountain champion in the group 1 classification. In 1977 he founded his racing team Equipe-Stenger .

In 1978 Stenger achieved one of his greatest successes with victory in the 1st division of the European Hill Climb Championship on a Group 1 Ford Escort RS . In 1981 and 1982 he was able to repeat this success. In 1981 he won the European Mountain Championship for touring cars (2nd division) on a Group 2 Ford Escort RS and in 1982 he secured himself with a Group 5 Ford Capri Turbo from Zakspeed , formerly owned by Harald Ertl in Germany Racing championship was used, the European mountaineering title in the racing car class (3rd division). In 1979, with the support of Zakspeed, Stenger won the German mountain champion title on a Group 2 Ford Escort RS with 23 victories in 25 races. In 1981 he was able to repeat this success.

With the introduction of Group C , he switched to an Osella PA7 / 9 prototype racing car . He converted this into the Stenger C3 . With this he won the vice-championship title of the 3rd division of the European Mountain Championship from 1984 to 1986. In 1987, Stenger and his team built their own prototype racing car according to Group C regulations. With the racing car, he won the German mountain championship and secured the championship title there. In 1989 and 1990 he again won the vice-championship title of the 3rd division of the European Mountain Championship.

In 1997 Stenger used a new prototype racing car, the Stenger CN , with which he entered Int. FIA Hill Climb European Mountain Champion Region West, Int. German Challenge mountain champion for racing vehicles and Austrian mountain champion in the 3rd division for Group C vehicles. In 1999 he was able to repeat these successes. In the following years, Stenger won other national and international mountain champion and vice-mountain champion titles. He drove his last hill climb championship in 2007, which he finished with third place in the annual ranking for racing vehicles.

From 2007 to 2010 he competed in the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring with a BMW 318i . There he was able to achieve class victory in the V2 series class at the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring in 2008 together with Alexander Schula and Michael Jestädt .

Herbert Stenger has received several awards for his achievements during his motorsport career and has won seven European FIA mountain championship titles and ten German mountain championship titles. He died in 2014 as a result of cancer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Racing History - Website: Rechberg: In Memoriam Herbert Stenger! From: www.racing-history.de , April 25, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2019 .
  2. a b c d e f g h i Equipe-Stenger - website: Herbert Stenger. On: www.equipe-stenger.de , accessed on January 8, 2019 .
  3. a b c d GT-Eins - Website: Interview with sports car mountain pilot Herbert Stenger. On: www.gt-eins.de , accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  4. Equipe-Stenger - website: hill climb. On: www.equipe-stenger.de , accessed on January 9, 2019 .