Urs Erbacher

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Urs Erbacher at the NitrOlympX 2019

Urs Erbacher (born October 25, 1961 in Arlesheim ) is a Swiss dragster racing driver .

Career

Urs Erbacher in the Top Methanol Funny Car (2005)

At the beginning of the 1980s, Urs Erbacher began drag racing. Enthusiastic about the speed rush over the quarter mile, he later switched from cars to dragsters . His first major success was the 2002 FIA Vice European Championship in the Top Methanol Funny Car class. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 Erbacher won the FIA ​​European Championship in this series.

After three championship titles, the move to top fuel dragsters , the premier class of dragster racing, was the next step in his career. Erbacher finished his first season with the approximately 8000 PS monsters in third place. With his Fat Attack Team , the multiple record holder won the FIA ​​European Championship title in the top fuel class in 2007. In 2008, the fastest Swiss, as the press dubbed him, drove in the USA .

In 2009 Erbacher Racing established a professionally structured so-called “Racing School”, which was supposed to enable the necessary training and test runs for the TF license. The US driver Mike Salinas and the only German candidate for a TF license at the time (Jens Riehl) were thus qualified for a top fuel license.

In 2011 Erbacher was able to win the European Championship in the top fuel class, albeit somewhat surprisingly. His direct competitor Tommy Johnson was excluded from the ranking after a doping offense, which meant that Erbacher only got the chance to win his third title in the highest category after 2007 and 2010. In 2012, after a guest appearance in Abu Dhabi , he took part in a few races in the USA, but did not defend the European Championship.

successes

year class rank
2002 Top Methanol Funny Car FIA Vice European Champion
2003 Top Methanol Funny Car FIA European Champion
2004 Top Methanol Funny Car FIA European Champion
2005 Top Methanol Funny Car FIA European Champion
2006 Top fuel dragster FIA European Championship: 3rd
2007 Top fuel dragster FIA European Champion
2010 Top fuel dragster FIA European Champion
2011 Top fuel dragster FIA European Champion

Records

class Time (sec.) Speed ​​(km / h) year place
Top Fuel Dragster (Quarter Mile) 4,722 457.26 2011 Santa Pod Raceway
Top Fuel Dragster (1000 ft) 3,993 481.13
Top Methanol Funny Car 5,694 399.60 2003 Santa Pod Raceway

Private

Erbacher's daughter Jndia at the " NOX " 2019

Erbacher is married and has two children. In addition to his involvement in motorsport, he is the owner of a company that specializes in the development and manufacture of custom bikes . He is also active in the car trade and runs a catering business. His daughter Jndia also drives dragster racing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “The« Töfflitraum »for really bad boys” , Handelszeitung , March 10, 2010
  2. ↑ List of the winners of the European Dragracing Championships
  3. ^ "FIA" ( Memento of December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) table
  4. ^ "NHRA" Urs Erbacher in the NHRA Series
  5. ^ Report automobile revue ; Edition of January 5, 2012 page 26
  6. ↑ Dragster driver explains her 10,000 PS monster . In: 20minuten.ch, November 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Erbacher, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dragster racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlesheim