Horst Fügner

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Horst Fügner (born March 11, 1923 in Chemnitz ; † November 22, 2014 there ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Career

Horst Fügner drove motorcycle races from 1950. In 1955 he was the first GDR road champion in the class up to 125 cm³. In the road championship of the FRG he finished second behind Karl Lottes ( MV Agusta ) in the same year .

Fügner was a works driver at MZ in Zschopau and took part in the motorcycle world championship from 1957 to 1959 . His greatest success was the vice world championship title in 1958 in the 250 cc class behind the Italian MV Agusta works driver Tarquinio Provini . He achieved the only Grand Prix victory of his career at the Swedish Grand Prix in Hedemora .

After a serious fall while training for the 125cc race for the 1959 Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps , Horst Fügner had to end his career.

Horst Fügner died on November 22, 2014 in his hometown of Chemnitz at the age of 91.

statistics

title

Race wins

(colored background = world championship run )

year class machine run route
1953 125 cc IFA Sachsenring race Sachsenring
1954 125 cc IFA Feldberg race Feldbergring
125 cc IFA Halle-Saale loop race Halle-Saale loop
1955 125 cc IFA Eifel race Nürburgring - Nordschleife
125 cc IFA Halle-Saale loop race Halle-Saale loop
125 cc IFA All about bulkheads Schottenring
125 cc IFA Schleizer triangle race Schleizer triangle
1956 125 cc IFA Halle-Saale loop race Halle-Saale loop
1957 250 cc MZ Motorrace Tubbergen Circuit Tubbergen
1958 125 cc MZ Halle-Saale loop race Halle-Saale loop
250 cc MZ Swedish Grand Prix Hedemora
250 cc MZ Grand Prix of the GDR Sachsenring
1959 250 cc MZ Grand Prix of Austria Salzburg-Liefering

In the motorcycle world championship

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Points Result
1957 125 cc MZ 1 0 0 3 9.
1958 125 cc MZ 4th 0 0 7th 9.
250 cc MZ 3 1 2 16 2.
1959 125 cc MZ 2 0 0 6th 10.
250 cc MZ 2 0 1 6th 9.
total 12 1 3 38

References

Web links

  • Horst Fügner on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
  • Günter Geyler: Horst Fügner. www.eggersdorfer.info, accessed on November 30, 2014 .
  • Hansjörg Meister: Feldberg race. www.feldbergrennen.de, accessed on September 17, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motorcycling - GDR - championships (road racing - part 1). In: History. sport-komplett.de, accessed on November 10, 2013 .
  2. ^ Günter Geyler: From racing history . Speed, Chemnitz 1996, p. 82 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Wirth: Horst Fügner. Speedweek Online , November 27, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Fügner, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2014
Place of death Chemnitz