Alois Wiesböck
| Born | 31 July 1950 Niederbergkirchen, West Germany |
|---|---|
| Nationality | German |
| Career history | |
| West Germany | |
| 1974–1979 | Bopfingen |
| 1982, 1987 | Pocking |
| Great Britain | |
| 1979 | Reading Racers |
| Individual honours | |
| 1979 | Long Track World Champion |
| 1974, 1976, 1978, 1981 | West German Longtrack champion |
Alois Wiesböck (born 31 July 1950), in Niederbergkirchen, is a former Long track motorcycle racing world champion and international motorcycle speedway rider from Germany. He earned 24 international caps for the West German national speedway team.[1]
Career
[edit]Wiesböck was winner of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1979.[2][3]
He was also four times West German Longtrack champion in 1974, 1976, 1978 and 1981.[4][5]
He rode in Great Britain during the 1979 British League season as a rider for the Reading Racers but only rode in two matches.[6][7]
Wiesböck rode in the final of the 1981 and 1982 World Team Cup.[8]
World Final appearances
[edit]Individual World Championship
[edit]- 1979 -
Chorzów, Silesian Stadium - 16th - 1pt
World Team Cup
[edit]- 1982 -
London, White City Stadium (with Georg Hack / Karl Maier / Egon Müller / Georg Gilgenreiner) - 3rd - 18pts (0)
World Longtrack Championship
[edit]- 1974 -
Scheeßel (3rd) 21pts - 1975 -
Mariánské Lázně (4th) 21pts - 1977 -
Aalborg (6th) 18pts - 1978 - Mühldorf (2nd) 26pts
- 1979 - Mariánské Lázně (Champion) 19pts
- 1980 - Scheeßel (Disq+)
- 1981 -
Gornja Radgona (17th) 1pt - 1982 - Esbjerg (2nd) 22pts
- 1983 - Mariánské Lázně (4th) 16pts
- 1986 - Pfarrkirchen (17th) 0pts
- 1987 - Mühldorf (11th) 6 pts
+ disqualified after finishing third for having an oversize engine
References
[edit]- ^ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
- ^ "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.
- ^ Loader, Tony (1991). Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. p. 166. ISSN 1036-4404.
- ^ "HISTORYCZNE ZESTAWIENIE WYNIKÓW 1991-2013". Speedway History. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "Ex Vikings through to World Finals". Hull Daily Mail. 7 August 1982. Retrieved 24 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
