Jörg Steinwascher

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Jörg Steinwascher 1976 in his three-point scorer

Jörg Steinwascher (born June 4, 1945 , † 1999 ) was a German motorboat racing driver . He is the brother of the equally successful racing boat driver Volker Steinwascher . Both came to motor boating because their father sold boats and boat engines in his Siegburg company.

Jörg Steinwascher studied law and later worked as a lawyer. He died in 1999 on a vacation trip.

Sporting successes

Jörg Steinwascher gained his first racing experience in 1962 in the inflatable boat class PC (outboards up to 500 cm³). In 1965 he took over his brother's boat after he had won two German championships in the DU sports boat class (outboard motor up to 700 cm³). Later he concentrated on the racing boat class OB (racing engines up to 350 cm³) so as not to compete with his brother. In between he also drove in various sport boat classes, for example. B. 1966 at the 6 Hours of Paris in the class up to 1,000 cm³, where he and his brother took second place.

  • 1965 German master class DU
  • 1966 World Champion class DU in Bañolas (Spain)
  • 1967 World Champion class OB in Berlin-Tegel
  • 1969 German master class IU
  • 1971 World Champion class OB in Budapest (Hungary)
  • 1972 German master class OB
  • 1975 World Champion class OB in Auronzo (Italy)
  • 1975 European champion class OB in Hanover

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the law firm ( Memento from June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Message in the journal Die Yacht (Hamburg), 1966, issue 22, p. 4
  3. ^ Message in the journal Die Yacht (Hamburg), 1968, issue 17, p. 10


personal data
SURNAME Steinwascher, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorboat racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1945
DATE OF DEATH 1999