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Standing still, stepping away - about Ali Schatz, Kurt Bosch and other race directors with cult status

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Created in 2007

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Rainer Braun

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Hallo Fahrerlager / Archiv Rainer Braun

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Hallo Fahrerlager / Archiv Rainer Braun

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Diepholz race director Peter Rumpfkeil offers a hut for the tough - reporter's desk for track announcer

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A man and his race - Gernot Leistner has been race director at the Norisring for 50 years - with the chequered flag in 1978

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Gernot Leistner welcoming his new track spokesman Rainer Braun in 1964 (Norisring)

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Norisring race director Gernot Leistner and his pride and joy - the Porsche parking lot in 1973

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Here I am - Berlin's Gerhard Gottlieb has his Avus firmly under control - for example in the starting line-up on the Avus in 1989

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Here I am - Berlin's Gerhard Gottlieb has his Avus firmly under control - for example, waving off the BMW M1 Procar race in 1980

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Peter Rumpfkeil - only the tough get through

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Renovated Diepholz nostalgia hut in Oschersleben 2004 - from left to right Rumpfkeil, Biechteler, Heinrich, Meibert, Hufstadt, Theisen, Bechtel, Plenge and Braun

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Ali Schatz in sergeant's uniform in 1974

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Ali Schatz - in typical pose

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Kurt Bosch - a Rhenish original

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"Isser dat?" - Kurt Bosch honors the F2 drivers Jochen Rindt and Peter Arundell at the 1966 Eifel race

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Law & Order - HSMC race director Volker Carius (left) and Gerd Kroeber

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Imminent danger - the annual problem in Finthen - US visitors sunbathe carefree in the exclusion zone

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Gernot Leistner bei der Begrüßung seines neuen Streckensprechers Rainer Braun im Jahr 1964 (Norisring)

Norisring-Rennleiter Gernot Leistner und sein ganzer Stolz - der Porsche-Parkplatz im Jahr 1973

Hier bin ich - Berlins Gerhard Gottlieb hat seine Avus fest im Griff – zum Beispiel in der Startaufstellung an der Avus 1989

Hier bin ich - Berlins Gerhard Gottlieb hat seine Avus fest im Griff – zum Beispiel beim Abwinken des BMW M1-Procar-Rennens 1980

Peter Rumpfkeil - nur die harten kommen durch

Renovierte Nostalgie Hütte von Diepholz in Oschersleben 2004 - v.l.n.r. Rumpfkeil, Biechteler, Heinrich, Meibert, Hufstadt, Theisen, Bechtel, Plenge und Braun

Summary

In the course of his 45 years as a journalist and track announcer, Rainer Braun has inevitably worked with many race director personalities. He particularly remembers those charismatic types who today, in the world of the modern racing business with their permanent race directors, seem like lovable legacies from days long gone. With this group portrait of some of these special race directors, Rainer Braun remembers these men in his well-known entertaining way, who made the race weekends something special with their commitment, but also with their quirks.

This article contains the following chapters

With military precision
No contradiction tolerated
Tough, but cordial
The Lion of Zolder
Good behavior desired
"Et hätt still jot jejange"
Until the finish line
Calmness personified
Not a thin-board drill
Start when the jacket is plucked
Fighting for the Avus
Racing driver or wimp?
With the Federal Cross of Merit
"Only the tough get through"
With reinforcement
Talent for improvisation
Almost like a cowboy
One man, one word
Organizational talent
We drive until we are finished ...
Sympathetic mishaps
50 times race director
The two - Gerd Kroeber & Volker Carius
Discussion pointless
Run over musical instruments
The school champion
Author's note

Estimated reading time: 26min

Preview (beginning of the article)

This report is from the 1st volume of the popular book series "Hallo Fahrerlager" by Rainer Braun from 2007. Nürburgring, drivers' briefing for the "ADAC Super Sprint". The man does not give the impression of tolerating contradiction. His instructions are militarily terse, his tone dangerous. "If you don't keep up, you'll get to know me differently," he says threateningly. "And so that there's no confusion," he adds sternly, "there's only one person in charge here, and that's me." The racing drivers listen in rapt attention, some intimidated, others amused. Then he dismisses them: "Thank you, gentlemen, good luck." Race director Alfred "Ali" Schatz does his job.

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Gernot Leistner bei der Begrüßung seines neuen Streckensprechers Rainer Braun im Jahr 1964 (Norisring)

Norisring-Rennleiter Gernot Leistner und sein ganzer Stolz - der Porsche-Parkplatz im Jahr 1973

Hier bin ich - Berlins Gerhard Gottlieb hat seine Avus fest im Griff – zum Beispiel in der Startaufstellung an der Avus 1989

Hier bin ich - Berlins Gerhard Gottlieb hat seine Avus fest im Griff – zum Beispiel beim Abwinken des BMW M1-Procar-Rennens 1980

Peter Rumpfkeil - nur die harten kommen durch

Renovierte Nostalgie Hütte von Diepholz in Oschersleben 2004 - v.l.n.r. Rumpfkeil, Biechteler, Heinrich, Meibert, Hufstadt, Theisen, Bechtel, Plenge und Braun

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