The autobau erlebniswelt expanded its Wall of Fame on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The Wall of Fame honors personalities who have made a name for themselves in Swiss motorsport or who have helped it to achieve renown and popularity through outstanding achievements. Four further Swiss motor racing personalities have been inducted. Three new exhibits from the car collection, including an original racing car from Jo Siffert, were also presented at the ceremony.
67 celebrities from Swiss motor racing
With Rahel Frey, Romain Grosjean, Hansmarkus Huber and Edy Wyss, autobau erlebniswelt has added four more personalities from Swiss motorsport to its Wall of Fame. With one female racing driver, two male racing drivers and one technician from the international motorsport scene, the wall honoring the personalities in the racing hall of the car exhibition now shows 67 important people from Swiss motorsport.
The autobau erlebniswelt is a place where the merits of all those who have advanced Swiss motorsport over the past 100 years or so are duly honoured - through technical developments or outstanding performances on and around race tracks as drivers or team managers, through their support of the sport as organizers, officials, reporters, sponsors and supporters.
Motorcyclists too in the future
Since 2010, it was the fourth WoF event in ten years and also the last with the founding jury. In future, the panel will consist of Rahel Frey, Neel Jani, Jacques Cornu as well as Fredy Alexander Lienhard and Paul Gutjahr as jury president. After a five-year break, the WoF event will once again take place at regular intervals of two to three years. Another change is that Swiss motorcyclists will also be included in the Wall of Fame in future. The selection of various candidates to be honored has already begun.
In addition, the festive setting of the WoF event was used to present three exclusive and very rare new exhibits at the car show in Romanshorn: an Alfa Romeo TZ2, the Chevron Formula 2 by Jo Siffert and a Ford GT40 MKII by René Herzog.
Romain Grosjean
The Genevan started out in karting and then switched to monoposto racing cars. Between 2003 and 2011, he won seven championship titles in the following series: Formula Lista (2003), Formule Renault (France 2005), Formula 3 Euroseries (2007), GP Asia (2008, 2011), Formula Master (2010) and GP2 Main Series (2011). In 2009, he entered Formula 1 with Team Renault. From 2012-2015 he drove for F1 Team Lotus and since 2016 he has been competing in the World Championship for the American F1 Team Haas. So far, he has achieved ten podium finishes in Formula 1.
Rahel Frey
Rahel started karting at the age of twelve and performed in Formula Renault and Formula 3 from 2005. She was the first woman to win a race in the German F3 Cup in Jo Zeller's team. In 2011, she became a professional racing driver and entered the DTM series with Audi Sport. She also competed in the GT Masters for Audi for six years and won at Hockenheim and Zandvoort. The fast driver from Solothurn has established herself in the GT scene worldwide.
Hansmarkus Huber
His involvement in motor racing was multifaceted. After his first successes in 1963, he began a long and successful driving career with countless vehicles. He won many races and finished among the top positions in major championships. His participation in the FIA one-make world championship in a Lola 294 was outstanding. He also made a name for himself as chief instructor, race director and commission president. The Circuit Lignières was created under his leadership.
Edi Wyss
The Zurich native, a graduate of the Technikum Biel, started out in 1968 as a racing mechanic in Formula 1 with Jo Bonnier. From 1969 to 1970, he held the same position with the McLaren team. In 1971, he worked with Jo Marquart at Huron and then looked after Jo Siffert in the Porsche 917/10 at the Can-Am. From 1973 he built racing cars - first the Tecno F1, in 1974 Herbert Müller's Ferrari 512 Can-Am Spider and in 1975 the Sauber C4 (monocoque).
