Hermann Bishop

This article deals with the racing driver Hermann Bischof. See also: Hermann Bischoff or Hermann (Bishop) .

Hermann Bishop 1975

1981 Walter Lechner Racing Team, Workscar PRS

Hermann Bischof (born November 4, 1954 in Bizau , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian automobile racing driver (Austrian and Vorarlberg champion as well as Formula Ford Cup winner 1981).

Career

Bischof's motorsport career began in 1973 at the age of 18 in a Simca Rallye 2 Simca 1000 . This year he came second in his first race in a car slalom in Amtzell and won in the 1300 series class at his ÖM hill climb premiere on Sonntagberg .

Bischof achieved his first successes in the Formula Ford 1600 in a Lotus 61 (1974) and then made the first podium places in the German and Austrian championships on the first LCR-FF racing car to be built . In September 1976, Bischof had a serious accident in Zolder in a European Championship race and no longer competed in Formula Ford races.

With a VW 1302 S , Bischof took part in very well-attended national and international rallycross races in 1977/78 . Bischof remained successful on the Wachauring against European class drivers like Franz Wurz and Andy Bentza . With the VW Beetle in the A-final he brought the new Golf models of the VW plant into distress and came third.

Back in Formula Ford 1600, Hermann Bischof was able to drive the new PRS racing car in Walter Schöch's team in the DM and ÖM and won a Formula Ford race for the first time in 1979 (ÖM, hill climb Zwischenwasser ). From July 1980 until September 1981, Bischof won each of 13 championship races in Austria in which he started. In the 1980 Formula Ford Cup Austria classification, he finished second. In 1981, Bischof became a superior Austrian racing car champion, Formula Ford Cup Austria winner and Vorarlberg national champion in motor racing as part of the Walter Lechner racing school team and again on PRS. In his penultimate race in September 1981, he also defeated the future Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger .

From the end of the 1980s, Bischof started at endurance events for off-road motorcycles. In 1989 he was recognized for the first time as a motorcycle athlete at the 3-hour race in Achern and in 1992 won the 24-hour enduro race in Clermont-Ferrand in the over 500 cc class on a Honda with a team from Vorarlberg . In 1995, Bischof drove his last endurance event (KTM Oasis Rallyetour, Tunisia), where he failed while in the lead with Heinz Kinigadner's KTM LC4 620.

In addition to his freelance work as a journalist and advertising agent, Bischof tested car tires for the Austrian importer of AVON Tires and Vee Rubber Tires in the 2000s.

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1965		BMW 1800	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
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Web links

Commons : Hermann Bischof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Hermann Bischof
• Dietmar Gasser: The Hermann Bischof Story , April 2005
• The Formula Ford Schreck from Bizau on Vorarlberg Online