Kurt Otto (racing driver)
Kurt Otto (born 30th March 1930 ; died 2003 ) was a German Rally - racing driver . Between 1954 and 1968 he is on IFA F9 , Wartburg 311 / 312 and Wartburg 353 started at a total of 133 rallies. Together with his copilot Hermann Hanf , he is considered to be one of the most successful GDR rally sport teams of the early 1960s.
Career
Otto started in 1954 for the Motorsport Club Eisenach at rally sport events in both German states, and took part in races on the Solitude race track in Stuttgart in 1955 and '56 . When the state AWE racing collective was dissolved in 1957 and a rally sport department was established at the Eisenach automobile plant , Kurt Otto was one of the first rally drivers in the new racing team. With the rallying department he competed in international races all over Europe. Until the end of his career in 1968, he was one of the most successful pilots at the Eisenach plant.
His greatest success is the overall victory of the Hanseat Rally at the Nürburgring in 1959. In 1956, 1960, 1965 and 1966 he won the Wartburg Rally . In 1967 he and his co-driver Wolfgang Strehlow had to complete 800 kilometers of the Monte Carlo Rally in his Wartburg 353 without a windshield after it had been destroyed by a rockfall.
A collection of cups and racing trophies from the estate of Kurt Otto is on display in the museum automobile welt eisenach , as is a true-to-original replica of his Wartburg 311 in rally design.
literature
- Horst Ihling : Motor racing in the GDR: 90 years of racing car construction and motorsport, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, October 2006, ISBN 9783768857888
Web links
- Race results from Kurt Otto on ewrc-results.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Hermann Hanf , rallye-magazin.de, accessed on December 17, 2015
- ↑ 100 years of the Monte Carlo Rally , accessed on December 17, 2015
- ↑ Kurt Otto's rally cups handed over , eisenachonline.de, December 17, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rally racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1930 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2003 |