Ulrich Rochel

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An 850 cc engine constructed by Rochel from smaller engines

Ulrich Rochel (born July 29, 1942 ) is a German motorboat racing driver and lives in Berlin.

Career

As a trained car mechanic, he works a lot on his racing engines and often drives with machines that he has designed or converted himself. Rochel has two daughters, both of whom have competed in motorboat races themselves.

After getting a taste of motor boating in 1973 and 1974, he switched to auto-cross sport from 1975 to 1979 . As early as 1978 you saw him in the racing boat again and soon afterwards on the winners' podiums. When he received the highest award, the Silver Laurel Leaf , in the Bad Godesberg Redoute in 1985 , he and his colleagues Jörg Lipinski and Manfred Loth stood in line with Boris Becker .

Sporting successes

Rochel initially started in the sport boat classes SE ( outboards up to 850 cm³), later he achieved success in the racing boat classes OD and OE (outboards up to 700 or 850 cm³, designation from 1986: O-700 and O-850).

  • 1981 European champion class OE in Hobro (Denmark)
  • 1982 German master class OE
  • 1983 European champion class OE in Drammen (Norway)
  • 1983 German master class OE
  • 1984 World Champion class OE in Nora (Sweden)
  • 1985 European class OE champion in Ulm
  • 1985 German master class OE
  • 1986 German master class O-850
  • 2003 European Champion class O-700 in Janikowo (Poland)

Prizes of honor

  • 1985 Silver bay leaf
  • 1983 Boucquey Trophy (for most race points earned worldwide in the O-850 class within one year)
  • 1985 Boucquey Trophy

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EM for "Grandpa" Rochel , message in the BZ (Berlin) from June 20, 2003 (accessed on February 28, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Rochel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorboat racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1942