Jörg Obermoser

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Jörg Obermoser (born June 19, 1943 ) is a former German racing car driver , team owner and entrepreneur.

Racing career

In the early 1970s, Jörg Obermoser started his racing career in a BMW 2002 TI and later a BMW 2800 CS in touring car motorsport. In 1972 he got into the 2nd division of the newly founded German Racing Championship (DRM). In the first DRM season he drove his Ford Escort RS 1600 straight to 4th place overall.
Obermoser celebrated his greatest motorsport success in 1974 in the DRM when he secured the runner-up championship behind Dieter Glemser in a BMW 2002 .
With BMW racing cars he drove the following DRM seasons up to and including 1977. There he was placed 4th in the overall season standings in 1975 and 1976.

At the same time, from 1972 he also drove in the 2-liter sports car European championship and some races in the sports car world championship and interseries . First he drove a Lola T290 , with which he achieved his first sports car class victory in the interseries race. In 1973, after founding his own racing team Jörg Obermoser Eurorace , he switched to a GRD S73 BMW and was able to secure victory in the S2.5 class in the 300 km race on the Nürburgring of the Interserie.
A year later he started racing with his own developed and built TOJ SS02 racing car , which included a 2-liter BMW engine. In 1975 he celebrated his first overall victory in a 2-liter sports car race in a TOJ SC03 at Brands Hatch. A year later he drove to 1st overall in a TOJ SC304 Ford at the Interserien-Race in Mainz-Finthen. In 1977 he was able to record two more racing victories in the Interseries in Kassel-Calden and at the Nürburgring with his self-developed racing cars TOJ SC302 Ford and TOJ SC303 Ford. They were also driven by other racing drivers such as Klaus Walz . He drove Obermoser's last race in the TOJ racing car in 1978 at the Interserial Race in Ulm. In 1979 he ended his active racing career and devoted himself exclusively to the management of his racing team.

Formula 2 racing team

Obermoser also entered Formula 2 with his team . He did not drive the races with the BMW F201 engine-equipped TOJ 201 racing cars himself, but committed young drivers like Keke Rosberg , who later became world champion there in 1978 after switching to Formula 1 in 1978 .
In 1980 Obermoser withdrew completely from the racing business.

Today he sells faithfully reproduced and painted models of his 2-liter racing cars used between 1972 and 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: DRM driver points 1972 to 1985. On: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: DRM driver points 1972 to 1985. On: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Interserie 1973. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Interserie 1976. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Interserie 1977. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Handelsblatt - website: old cars under the hammer. From: www.handelsblatt.com , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
  7. ↑ a b Dunlop - Internet site: Jörg Obermoser - The nostalgic. (PDF; 57 kB) At: www.dunlop.eu , accessed on September 14, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Obermoser, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1943