Walter Reichert

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Walter Reichert (born May 26, 1933 in Ingelheim am Rhein ; † April 26, 1999 there ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Career

Walter Reichert's father had a car workshop in Ingelheim. In order to make the job of a car mechanic appealing to the boy, Reichert's father gave his 14-year-old son an NSU Quick with a two-speed twist grip on the handlebars and Walter immediately tried to make the small motorcycle faster. The racing career started small, but continued successfully after purchasing an Austrian 125 cm³ Puch . In 1950 Walter Reichert received the racing license .

In 1952 he won the Dieburger Dreiecksrennen and in St. Wendel . The NSU -Bosse were at Feldbergrennen attention to the two-Puch privateer, the fourth and fifth place occupied behind three factory bikes: Werner Haas and Walter Reichert. Both received works contracts . Werner Haas has been world champion three times . But Walter Reichert also took the chance and in 1953 took second place with the NSU Rennfox in the class up to 125 cm³ behind Werner Haas and in the class up to 250 cm³ with the Rennmax behind Siegfried Wünsche ( DKW ) also second place.

For 1954, NSU signed Werner Haas, the Austrian Rupert Hollaus , Hans Baltisberger and H. P. Müller . Some private drivers received a 250cc Sportmax: Fritz Kläger , Rudi Stein, Karl Julius Holthaus, Wolfgang Brand and Walter Reichert. Reichert won with this Sportmax on Feldberg and Fritz Kläger was second in the race ahead of Hubert Luttenberger on Adler . In the same year Reichert was also “Best German Private Driver” in his class. Due to a fall, there were no further successes in 1955 and 1956. But then followed in 1957/58 victories at the Sachsenring and Hanseatenring and in 1959 fourth place in the Schauninsland hill climb .

Between 1953 and 1958 , Walter Reichert regularly competed in the German Grand Prix as part of the motorcycle world championship and achieved the points four times.

In 1961 he met with the Belgian Heinen at FIM - long-range -Pokal and reached second place in the overall standings.

Walter Reichert ended his racing career after 1961 and devoted himself entirely to his car workshop. He died in 1999 in his hometown of Ingelheim at the age of 65.

statistics

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Race wins

year class machine run route
1952 125 cc Puch Dieburger triangle race Dieburger triangle
125 cc Puch Saarland Grand Prix St. Wendel
1954 250 cc NSU Feldberg race Feldbergring
250 cc NSU Schleizer triangle race Schleizer triangle
350 cc NSU Schleizer triangle race Schleizer triangle
125 cc NSU 3. Bernauer Loop Bernauer Loop
250 cc NSU 3. Bernauer Loop Bernauer Loop
1957 250 cc NSU International Sachsenring race Sachsenring
1958 250 Hanseatenring

In the motorcycle world championship

season class motorcycle run Victories Second Third Points Result
1953 125 cc NSU 1 - - 1 2 12.
250 cc NSU 1 - - - 3 11.
1954 250 cc NSU 1 - - - 2 15th
1958 250 cc NSU 1 - - - 1 18th
total 4th 0 0 0 7th

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tragatsch (1982), p. 268.
  2. ↑ Vincent Glon: 1961 - COUPE FIM D'ENDURANCE. racingmemo.free.fr, accessed on May 27, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Reichert, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingelheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1999
Place of death Ingelheim am Rhein