German GP crisis: no World Cup for Bradl? No Sachsenring GP?

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German GP crisis: no World Cup for Bradl? No Sachsenring GP?

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German GP crisis: no World Cup for Bradl? No Sachsenring GP?

Stefan Bradl came as the Moto2 World Championship championship leader with over 50 points to the home GP at the Sachsenring in front of over 100,000 fans. In July, the German motorcycle world was in perfect order. In the meantime, the world championship title and the German motorcycle GP are in jeopardy.

Michael Rohrer

09/29/2011

Stefan Bradl’s lead in the Moto2 World Championship is melting away. And advancement to the MotoGP class is a long way off.

While motorcycle races are courted as a gentleman sport in Márquez, home country Spain, for example, heroes on two wheels in Germany are still outsiders whose sport is criticized by opponents not only because of its dangers but also because of its environmental pollution and waste of resources. Which is why the heating company Viessmann, which promotes ecology and sustainability with its sponsorship commitments in winter sports, rejected the MotoGP climb in the room before the Aragón GP.
At the Sachsenring GP in July, when Bradl’s team boss Stefan Kiefer was in a good mood on the scooter through the paddock with company owner Martin Viessmann, he had interpreted the benevolence of his most important guest of honor as a promise and in the following weeks was on the verge of ordering factory machines from Honda.
The fact that Viessmann ultimately took the views of its members of the board of directors and official company interests as a whole into consideration hit Kiefer Racing like a club. “It is a great shame. We didn’t think so. Until two or three weeks ago we believed in the option of doing MotoGP with Viessmann and Stefan Bradl”, explained Kiefer. “We accept-
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Environmental considerations and key words such as sustainability has now not been realized. It was a company decision, and I believe that Dr. Viessmann beat two hearts in one breast.” However, the question must be allowed what the extremely energy-consuming maintenance of a bobsleigh and toboggan run has to do with sustainability.
The Viessmann Group has of course still given the green light for Moto2. “The difference is that in Formula 1 motorcycling is more of a focus. Viessmann wants to avoid that so as not to get a wrong image”, so Kiefer continues. “We are already prepared to ride Moto2 next year and hope that Stefan will stay with us.”
As succinct as the comment sounded, the situation of the Kiefer racing team could not be more explosive at the moment. First came the rude awakening from the dream of being able to move up to the MotoGP class. Then the GP selection committee took one of the two starting positions away from the team – according to another manager “as a punitive action” for the fact that the Kiefer brothers had rented their previous second place to Randy Krummenacher from Zurich and his structure. If Kiefer star Bradl should now emigrate, the team will be thrown back years of its development, which is why the Kiefer brothers can only hope that Stefan Bradl will resist the call of money from competing racing teams at the end of the year.
In Aragón, Bradl was understandably not in the mood for questions about his future. Because just as everything fits together positively with Márquez at the moment, it corresponds to the setback of the MotoGP cancellation that Stefan Bradl’s rear tire turned on the rim during the race and triggered violent vibrations. With a strong start and always in the lead in the early stages, Bradl turned his head in confusion towards the rear wheel and began to fall back mercilessly, all the way to eighth place. “I’m sorry for him. Bradl didn’t deserve to have to compete with blunt weapons”, said even Márquez fan Alex Criville, 500 cc former world champion and Spanish TV commentator.
Because Bradl has one thing in common with Marquez – bravery. “Now I’m just six points ahead. But I will continue with the same commitment – and will give everything again in the next race”, he announced. fk

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