Rechberg race

The Rechberg race in Tulwitz ( Styria , Austria ) is a car mountain race and is organized by the Mürz Valley Motorsport Club. It is part of the FIA European Hill Climb Championship and FIA Historic Hill Climb Championship as well as the Austrian State Championship for Automobile Mountain Sports and is one of the major motorsport events in Austria.

Every year at the end of April on the 5050 m long section of the federal highway 64 from Tulwitz up to the 929 m high Rechberg .

history

The first race took place on September 10, 1972. 52 motorcycles, five sidecar machines and 47 automobiles took part. The course record for this 4 km long course was set by Erich Breinsberg with 2: 02.87 minutes. The race was used for the evaluation of the Austrian Mountain Championship. In 1981 a European hill climb championship run took place on the track for the first time and the course record was improved by Michel Pignard to 1: 47.36 minutes.

In 1987 the start was moved to the current location in Tulwitz and the route length increased to 4.5 km. Walter Pedrazza from Vorarlberg set the course record with 2: 08.25 minutes for the new route. In 1988 the route was extended again by relocating the finish line to the top of the pass to the length of 5050 m prescribed by the international association. The average gradient is now 5.3% and the course record was set by Herbert Stenger with 2: 09.85 minutes.

At the 30th anniversary of the Rechberg race in 2002, Josef (Seppi) Neuhauser ( Minardi Formula 1 ) broke the 2-minute barrier for the first time with 1: 59.529 minutes . Since 2014, the course record is 1:55:366, set by Simone Faggioli on an Osella FA 30.

During training on April 25, 2015, the Czech hillclimb driver Otakar Kramsky got off the track with his formula car on the straight in front of the VIP grandstand and collided with a tree, suffering fatal injuries. Further training runs that day were canceled. On Sunday, after a training run, the race was run in just one round, with the Italian Simone Faggioli winning for the sixth time in a row. Second place went to David Hauser from Luxembourg, ahead of Christian Schweiger from Austria.

Public favorite Felix Pailer during the repatriation

Winner of the Rechberg race

No.	year	driver	vehicle	total time
10	1982	Mauro Nesti	Osella PA9	6: 18.064
11	1983	Mauro Nesti	Osella PA9	5: 27.750
12	1984	Mauro Nesti	Osella PA9	5: 50.594
13	1985	Mauro Nesti	Osella PA9	5: 22.474
14th	1986	Walter Pedrazza	PRC F2	5: 36.701
15th	1987	Walter Pedrazza	PRC M87 -BMW C3	5: 40.168
16	1988	Walter Pedrazza	PRC M86 -BMW C3	4: 24.189
17th	1989	Herbert Stenger	Stenger Sachs C3 Sprint ES861	4: 53.293
18th	1990	Andres Vilarino	Lola T298 -BMW C3	4: 20.408
19th	1991	Philippe Darbellay	Lucchini S289	4: 55.094
20th	1992	Andres Vilarino	Lola T298 -BMW C3	4: 21.585
21st	1993	Andres Vilarino	Lola T298 -BMW C3	4: 14.038
22nd	1994	Horst Fendrich	Martini MK69	4: 40.023
23	1995	Francisco Egozkue	Osella PA9	4: 47.419
24	1996	Horst Fendrich	Martini MK69	4: 22.457
25th	1997	Pasquale Irlando	Osella PA20S	4: 29.584
26th	1998	László Szász	Reynard 93D - Zytek F3000	4: 25.172
27	1999	Franz Tschager	Lucchini-BMW P1-98 CN	4: 14.705
28	2000	Josef Neuhauser	Horag Reynard-Judd SC91 Can-Am	4: 03.123
29	2001	Giulio Regosa	Osella PA20S	4: 08.459
30th	2002	Josef Neuhauser	Minardi M190 Formula 1	3: 59.915
31	2003	László Szász	Reynard 93D - Zytek F3000	4: 03.347
32	2004	Hermann Waldy	Reynard 94D F3000	4: 07.014
33	2005	Jaroslav Krajči	Lola T96 / 50 -Zytek F3000	4: 02.630
34	2006	Giulio Regosa	Lola T96 / 50 F3000	4: 49.026
35	2007	Ander Vilarino	Reynard - Mugen 01L Formula Nippon	3: 57.573
36	2008	Denny Zardo	Reynard - Mugen 01L Formula Nippon	4: 04.780
37	2009	Fausto Bormolini	Reynard - Mugen 95D Formula 3000	3: 59: 972
38	2010	Simone Faggioli	Osella FA 30	3: 54.678
39	2011	Simone Faggioli	Osella FA 30	4: 30.102
40	2012	Simone Faggioli	Osella FA 30	3: 52.037
41	2013	Simone Faggioli	Osella FA 30	3: 52.585
42	2014	Simone Faggioli	Norma M20 FC	3: 51.104
43	2015	Simone Faggioli	Norma M20 FC	2: 02.711
44	2016	Christian Merli	Osella FA30	3: 50.938
45	2017	Christian Merli	Osella FA30	3: 45.843
46	2018	Christian Merli	Osella FA30	3: 47.958
47	2019	Christian Merli	Osella FA30	3: 43.083

Development of the course record

year	driver	vehicle	time	Ø speed	Route length
1972	Erich Breinsberg	Brabham BT23 F2	2: 02.87	117.197 km / h	4 km
1974	Kurt Rieger	Formula 2	1: 56.58	123.520 km / h	4 km
1981	Michel Pignard	TOJ BMW	1: 47.35	134.141 km / h	4 km
1983	Mauro Nesti	Osella-BMW PA9	1: 46.33	135.427 km / h	4 km
1987	Walter Pedrazza	PRC M87 -C3	2: 08.25	126.316 km / h	4.5 km
1988	Herbert Stenger	Stenger Sachs C3 Sprint ES861	2: 09.85	138.621 km / h	5 km
1989	Marcel Tarrés	Martini-BMW MK56 F2	2: 07.97	140.658 km / h	5 km
1992	Andres Vilarino	Lola -BMW	2: 06.52	142.270 km / h	5 km
1999	Josef Neuhauser	Horag Reynard SC91 Can-Am	2: 04.757	144.280 km / h	5 km
2000	Walter Leitgeb	Reynard 95D Fadewa Formula 3000	2: 00.995	148.766 km / h	5 km
2002	Josef Neuhauser	Minardi M190 Formula 1	1: 59.529	150.591 km / h	5 km
2007	Ander Vilarino	Reynard - Mugen 01L Formula Nippon	1: 58.149	152.350 km / h	5 km
2010	Simone Faggioli	Osella FA 30	1: 55.690	157.1 km / h	5 km
2014	Simone Faggioli	Norma M20 FC	1: 55.366	157.6 km / h	5 km
2016	Simone Faggioli	Norma M20 FC	1: 54.928	158.18 km / h	5 km
2017	Christian Merli	Osella FA30 RPE EVO	1: 52.916	161 km / h	5 km
2019	Christian Merli	Osella FA30 Zytek LRM	1: 50.876	X km / h	5 km

Web links

• Homepage of the organizer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://steiermark.orf.at/news/stories/2707475/ Fatal racing accident at Rechbergrennen, ORF.at April 25, 2015
2. ↑ http://rechbergrennen.com/rennen/results 2015
3. ↑ There was only one run