Janina Depping

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Janina Depping (born September 25, 1978 in Hanover ; † August 14, 2013 in Jena ) was a German rally driver .

Career

Janina Depping, niece of rally driver Dieter Depping , won the 1997 women's championship in the San Remo Rally . In 1998 she won the junior screening of RalliArt Germany and the magazine Rallye Racing , took 1st place in the women's ranking of the Rallye San Remo as well as various individual successes in a Mitsubishi Carisma EVO IV Group N prepared by RalliArt . In 1999 she achieved various individual successes in the German Rally Championship on a Ford Escort Cosworth Group A and a 2nd place at the Berlin Emmeloord Cup, as well as an overall victory in the Hunsrück Junior Rallye in 1999 with a Proton Wira Group N. Also in 1999 she took part in the German Rally Championship on a Proton Wira Group N. In 2000 she achieved various individual successes at the German Rallycross Championship and the 2001 Rallycross Trophy.

In 2003 she entered the German Rally Championship and the German Rally Challenge 2003 with a newly built Mitsubishi Carisma EVO VII Group N. In 2004 she drove the German Rally Championship in a Mitsubishi Carisma Evo VII. In 2006 she reached 2nd place in the private drivers' classification in the German Rally Series. In 2007 she took part again in the German Rally Championship and the German Rally Series.

At the 54th Wartburg Rally 2013 in Thuringia , Depping came off the road on August 10 on a special stage between Steinbach and Brotterode and hit a tree. Depping's 29-year-old passenger, Ina Schaarschmidt from Leubsdorf, died at the scene of the accident. She herself suffered serious injuries, to which she succumbed a few days later.

In the past few years, Depping was one of the organizers of the Wedemark Rally ; As a result of her death, the rally planned for August 31, 2013 was canceled. The rally now bears the name Janinas Wedemark Rally .

Janina Depping lived in Bissendorf in Lower Saxony and worked as an office clerk . Two weeks before her death, she married the rally driver Marcus Hesse, with whom she had been in a relationship for 13 years.

literature

  • Klaus Buhlamnn: The World Rally Championship. Drivers, Cars and Teams of the Wild Troop, Motorbuch Verlag, January 2004, ISBN 978-3613024151

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 54th Wartburg rally was canceled after a tragic accident in: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 12, 2013
  2. ^ "Rally driver Depping succumbs to serious injuries" ( Memento from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), stern.de , August 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Tragedy stops the Wartburg Rally in: Rallye Magazin , August 10, 2013
  4. ↑ Rally driver Depping succumbs to her injuries in: Motorsportmagazin , August 14, 2013
  5. ↑ a b rally driver from Wedemark is dead , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung online from August 14, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2013
  6. ^ Farewell to Janina Depping in: Rallye Magazin , August 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Depping, Janina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2013
Place of death Jena