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The "academic" - when team bosses and journalists run their own race

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Created in 2008

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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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Prestige duel - battle for supremacy between Capri RS amateurs Rainer Braun and Michael Kranefuss in 1972

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Dignified - Alpina boss Burkard Bovensiepen and his legendary Rolls-Royce appearance in 1971

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Audi board member Jürgen Stockmar ends his 1989 appearance in the IMSA-quattro with a giant leap into the tire pile

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VIP transport - colleague Kalli Hufstadt is transported to his Super Vee racer in 1975 on a handcart by his colleagues Drehsen, Trint and Braun and tipped into the cockpit

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Briefing - the 1983 Fiesta squad listens attentively to what Ford press officer Wolfgang Sander has to say about the rules of the game

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Three high-caliber cars - the top DTM models Alfa 155, Opel Calibra and Mercedes-Benz 190E were available in 1993

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Wheel off - the then Mercedes racing boss Norbert Haug stood in the Motodrom with a lost wheel in 1992

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Scary moment - Bernd Ostmann (AMS) gets into serious trouble in the DTM Kadett

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Reward for performance - the traditional winner's trophy for the overall winner of the Academic

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The other press release - ITR Communiqué in 1992

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Mit einem Riesensatz in den Reifenstapel beendet Audi-Vorstand Jürgen Stockmar im IMSA-quattro seinen Auftritt 1989

VIP-Transport - auf einer Sackkarre wird Kollege Kalli Hufstadt 1975 von seinen Mitstreitern Drehsen, Trint und Braun zu seinem Super-V-Renner geschafft und ins Cockpit gekippt

Lagebesprechung - aufmerksam lauscht die Fiesta-Truppe 1983, was Ford-Pressemann Wolfgang Sander an Spiegeregeln zu verkünden hat

Drei Hochkaräter - in den DTM-Topmodellen Alfa 155, Opel Calibra und Mercedes-Benz 190E durfte 1993 Platz genommen werden

Rad ab - der damalige Mercedes-Rennschef Norbert Haug standet 1992 mit Radverlust im Motodrom

Schrecksekunde - Bernd Ostmann (AMS) gerät im DTM-Kadett in arge Nöte

Summary

In keeping with its name, the "Academic" event originated as a driver training course for students. But in the seventies, it also became a joke event where team bosses and journalists gave each other a run for their money with really fast cars. It goes without saying that a lot was broken in the process. Rainer Braun tells some of the best anecdotes from the history of the Academic and illustrates them with impressive pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Actually a student's delight
Timekeeping officially prohibited
Licenses for 10 marks
With works cars
The 100 Mark bet
Fast women
The old man in the Porsche
Really across the board

Estimated reading time: 11min

Preview (beginning of the article)

This report comes from the 2nd volume of the popular book series "Hallo Fahrerlager" by Rainer Braun from 2008. The impacts are more or less violent. Zakspeed boss Erich Zakowski forgets to brake out of sheer enthusiasm and crashes into the rear of the car in front of him. Ford sports boss Mike Kranefuss thunders into the crash barriers in his Escort. Klaus Westrup ("auto motor und sport") hurtles backwards into the Hockenheim walls in his Capri RS and Kaimann designer Kurt Bergmann steers his Super V race car unerringly into the rear wheel of a competitor right at the start. Konrad Schmidt (SMS Motorsport) beats track marshals and photographers in the wildly lurching MG-Metro. Audi chief technician Jürgen Stockmar spectacularly places an IMSA quattro on a stack of tires. Mercedes race director Norbert Haug loses a wheel and Reinhold Joest vehemently fires a DTM Calibra V6 into the barrier of the finishing bend.

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Mit einem Riesensatz in den Reifenstapel beendet Audi-Vorstand Jürgen Stockmar im IMSA-quattro seinen Auftritt 1989

VIP-Transport - auf einer Sackkarre wird Kollege Kalli Hufstadt 1975 von seinen Mitstreitern Drehsen, Trint und Braun zu seinem Super-V-Renner geschafft und ins Cockpit gekippt

Lagebesprechung - aufmerksam lauscht die Fiesta-Truppe 1983, was Ford-Pressemann Wolfgang Sander an Spiegeregeln zu verkünden hat

Drei Hochkaräter - in den DTM-Topmodellen Alfa 155, Opel Calibra und Mercedes-Benz 190E durfte 1993 Platz genommen werden

Rad ab - der damalige Mercedes-Rennschef Norbert Haug standet 1992 mit Radverlust im Motodrom

Schrecksekunde - Bernd Ostmann (AMS) gerät im DTM-Kadett in arge Nöte

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