Klaus Drichert

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Klaus Drichert (born February 12, 1938 in Dobbrikow , Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district ) was a successful motorboat racing driver in the GDR .

Career

After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith in Luckenwalde . In 1959 he started as an engine mechanic at VEB Automobilwerke Ludwigsfelde . After this VEB had in 1965 ceased production of the IWL racing engines, founded Driefert with the race boat drivers and engineers Manfred Blumenthal and Peter Rosenow and his colleagues Karl-Heinz Reichert and Kurt Leopold the Iltis racing collective . In their spare time they developed their own outboard racing engine for the 250 cm³ class, and later also for the 175 and 350 cm³ classes. Parts of Driefert's equipment are now in the Ludwigsfelde City and Technology Museum.

Sporting successes

Drichert started his racing career in 1965 with an IWL engine in the 175 cm³ class and celebrated his first victory in the third race. From 1968 he started with the self-constructed Iltis engine and achieved his greatest success with it. After nine GDR championship titles, he rose to the 250 cm³ and later to the 350 cm³ class, before ending his career in 1987 after 22 years of racing.

  • 1967 GDR runner-up, 175 cm³
  • 1968 DDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1969 European Champion 175 cm³ in Schneeberg
  • 1969 GDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1970 European Champion 175 cm³ in Komárno (Czechoslovakia)
  • 1970 GDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1971 European Champion 175 cm³ in Bad Saarow
  • 1971 DDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1972 DDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1973 DDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1974 GDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1975 GDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1976 DDR champion 175 cm³
  • 1977 GDR runner-up, 250 cc
  • 1982 DDR runner-up, 350 cm³

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autographs by Ludwigsfeld idols in the City and Technology Museum - racing legends sign posters on September 18, 2013
  2. ^ Günter Graßmann in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), Issue 8/1974, p. 179
  3. ^ Günter Graßmann in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), Issue 3/1972, p. 56
  4. ↑ Günter Graßmann in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), issue 20/1969, pp. 470–471
  5. ↑ M. Beeking in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), issue 18/1970, p. 413
  6. ^ Günter Graßmann in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), Issue 10/1971, pp. 219–220
personal data
SURNAME Drichert, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorboat racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobbrikow , Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district