János Drapál

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János Drapál (born February 3, 1948 in Budapest , † August 11, 1985 in Piešťany , Czechoslovakia ) was a Hungarian motorcycle racer who was also known as the Agostini of the East .

Between 1971 and 1984, Drapál won the Hungarian motorcycle road championship nine times and won four Grand Prix of the motorcycle world championship .

Career

Yamaha TZ by János Drapál.

János Drapál made his debut in the motorcycle world championship in 1969 on Aermacchi in the 350 cm³ class. In 1971 the Hungarian won his first Grand Prix in the 250 cc class on a Yamaha at the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix on the Masaryk Ring near Brno . He relegated compatriot László Szabó and Finn Jarno Saarinen to their places. This made Drapál the first Hungarian Grand Prix winner in the history of the motorcycle world championship, which has been held since 1949 .

In the 1972 season , Drapál won the Yugoslavia Grand Prix in Opatija, his second Grand Prix, in the 350 cm³ class , defeating Dieter Braun , the MV Agusta factory driver Phil Read and the Japanese Hideo Kanaya on the factory Yamaha, the came in second, third and fourth. This year, the Hungarian finished in seventh place overall in the second highest displacement category and thus achieved the best World Cup result of his career.

In 1973 , János Drapál won the 350 cm³ class at the Austrian Grand Prix at the Salzburgring and again at the Yugoslavian Grand Prix. To be able to intervene in the title fight, however, he failed too often. After 1973 the Hungarian started only a few Grand Prix races without being able to achieve presentable results.

Since Drapál got factory motorcycles of western production from his club Honvéd Budapest just like other Hungarian racing drivers, he achieved numerous top positions in motorcycle races in the Eastern Bloc without international western participation, since many of his competitors did not have machines that were sufficiently powerful.

János Drapál died on August 11, 1985 in a racing accident during a motorcycle race at Piešťany Airport in Czechoslovakia . On August 1, 2008, a street was named after him in his home village Pilisszentiván .

Statistics in the motorcycle world championship

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Points Result
1969 350 cc Aermacchi 1 - - 2 42.
1970 125 cc MZ 1 - - 1 52.
1971 125 cc MZ 1 - - 4th 24.
250 cc Yamaha 3 1 1 26th 9.
1972 250 cc Yamaha 3 - - 16 16.
350 cc Yamaha 5 1 2 42 7th
1973 350 cc Yamaha 2 2 2 30th 9.
1976 250 cc Yamaha 1 - - 2 30th
1977 125 cc Morbidelli 1 - - 4th 27.
1980 125 cc MBA 1 - - 5 23.
1981 125 cc MBA 1 - - 4th 25th
total 20th 4th 5 136

References

literature

  • János Drapál: Egy élet a motorsportért (German: A life for motorsport), Publisher: Honvéd Petőfi Sport Egyesület, Subtitle: Written and edited by János Vörös, ISBN 963-02-4022-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Kießling: Motorcycle races on the Sachsenring - The history of a unique race track , Johann Kleine Vennekate Verlag, Lemgo, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 3-9804987-3-5
  2. ↑ Janos Drapal, Hungary's first motorcycle Grand Prix winner. www.eggersdorfer.info, accessed on July 21, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Utcaavatás ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pilisszentivan.hu
  4. ↑ antikva.hu
personal data
SURNAME Drapál, János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian motorcyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1985
Place of death Piešťany