Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

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Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier
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Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

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Trainer Karl Maier (left) meets students and MOTORRAD editor-in-chief, Michael Pfeiffer. Driving lessons with the long track world champion.

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“When you start your head over the handlebars. With full steam over the straight, leave the gas at the entrance to the curve. Without a lot of speed, the machine won’t oversteer. Turn the motorcycle over on the left, just lift the throttle briefly and then pull it back up again. At the same time, use all your strength to push your right leg into the notch and stand up – like in a stirrup. Press right and bring the oversteering machine back to the vertical as quickly as possible so that the tire has the right grip. And always step on the gas. The same game in the next corner from the front. ”It’s actually quite simple. Theoretically.

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The first contact with the tool, a somewhat strange gut feeling cannot be denied.

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Briefing: The clothes are still clean, the boss’s face is quite incredulous. No brakes? That’s right, but that’s how it should be.

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Long track world champion (bottom right) meets MOTORRAD’s editor-in-chief and gives him brand-new Daytona boots and sanding shoes.

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Karl Maier: Four long track world championship titles, two second and four third places complete the world championship career of the BMW dealer from Neufinsing. Eight times he was German long-course champion.

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Men after work – you don’t stay clean in this sport.

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One of these gentlemen does not (yet) belong to the youth department of AC Landshut.

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…Mr. Pfeiffer probably needs a little more time.

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The angle of attack makes the difference: Please note where the rear wheel has gone on Karl Maier’s machine.

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Drifting with world champion Karl Maier.

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Bosses stick to it – even if it seems (is) impossible.

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When you accelerate out of the way, Karl Maier’s front wheel lifts – Mr. Pfeiffer doesn’t hit the gas quite so ambitiously.

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Boss wins the starting duel. Because he makes a mega embarrassing early start.

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The long track world champion overtakes the outside.

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Civil engineering work: Karl Maier doing final repairs in the yard of his BMW dealership.

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The four-time world champion does the work himself.

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At the end there was praise from the world champion: “Des is a wuide Sau!”.

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Speedway training for the boss at the long-course world champion Karl Maier

Long track world champion Karl Maier: “This is a wuide pig!”
Speedway training for the MOTORRAD editor-in-chief

In order to earn the highest possible Bavarian motorsport praise, one can, for example, become a long-track world champion. Or take driving lessons from the long-track world champion. And accident-free.

Michael Pfeiffer

08/02/2012

Let’s call it a classic “crazy idea”. What happens when two older men tell each other old motorcycle stories from even older days. One of the two is our boss: Michael Pfeiffer (52), MOTORRAD editor-in-chief since 1999. The other is called Karl Maier (55) and has been a BMW motorcycle dealer since 1981. Cheffe has poached almost everywhere in his motorsport career: German off-road championship, Sound of Singles, German endurance championship and much more. His greatest sporting success: 1048th place (of 1513 starters) in the hardcore enduro race Gotland Grand National. And the fact that he has returned the world championship Ducati from Superbike World Champion Neil Hodgson in one piece. Karl was a bit more monothematic in his active time. The reward for the motorsport focus: four long-track world championship titles.

At some point Michael must have betrayed Karl in confidence that he had never seen a speedway or long track race live in his life. Always telly. Let alone sat on a track racing machine or even drove it. And somehow – keyword crazy idea – the two then agreed that the rail sport boss will show the MOTORRAD boss – live and in color – how to break as a grinding shoe artist pretty much around the corner. After all, this is a real educational gap that needs to be closed. Well, and now the time has come: Karl and his long-time mechanic, the “Marlboro-Man” Gerhard (68), as well as BMW mechanic Werner (21) are together with two speedway machines in the paddock of the Landshut speedway stadium in Ellermuhle. Karl last drove here 15 years ago, his two Jawas (horizontal engine: built in 1994, around 74 hp; standing engine: built in 1988, around 70 hp) encourage those responsible at AC Landshut to comment on changes to the regulations in the meantime: “Mud flaps missing, mudguard too short, exhaust too loud – you never race with it! ”It doesn’t matter, the oldies are always good for two hours of driving school. The boss, who traveled to the Honda CBR 600 F long-term test, endured the briefing in disbelief: “Brakes?” “None!” “Gearbox?” “Not either!”


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One of these gentlemen does not (yet) belong to the youth department of AC Landshut.

Karl follows the straightforward technical briefing with a few rudimentary information on driving technique: “When you start, put your head over the handlebars. With full steam over the straight, leave the gas at the entrance to the curve. Without a lot of speed, the machine won’t oversteer. Turn the motorcycle over on the left, just lift the gas briefly and pull it up again when you turn it over. At the same time, press your right leg into the rest with all your strength and stand up – like in a stirrup. Press right and bring the oversteering machine back to the vertical as quickly as possible so that the tire has the right grip. And always step on the gas. The same game in the next corner from the front. ”It’s actually quite simple. Theoretically.


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When you accelerate out of the way, Karl Maier’s front wheel lifts – Mr. Pfeiffer doesn’t hit the gas quite so ambitiously.

In practice, Cheffe at least manages not to stall the engine, which is bold in the middle and brutally tearing at the top, and to roll a few 390-meter laps. His thoughts: “Shit, where is the brake? Fuck, why is there no footrest on the left? And why is there always something slipping here? And anyway: When will I finally be on my doorstep? ”But he has two good news:“ You learn the route very quickly. And the seating position is cool – like on a bonanza bike. ”After half an hour, the boss, who had been sandblasted x times by Karl but still didn’t fall, becomes more courageous. The first gentle drifts can be seen, but he is still a long way off from driving properly sideways. Okay, the thing with the speedway professional career will have to wait until post-editor-in-chief. But there is one thing he already knows after two hours of exhausting driving school: “Rail racing is a great and thoroughly honest story. The stadium, the track, the motorcycle and you – no crying, no excuse, you just have to stick with it. ”Karl’s comment on the newcomer to the track sport? See heading.

Karl Maier


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Karl Maier: Four long track world championship titles, two second and four third places complete the world championship career of the BMW dealer from Neufinsing. Eight times he was German long-course champion.

Karl Maier, who was born in Munich on August 24, 1957, drove his first race on October 10, 1975 at the grass track race in Eichenried – and won straight away. His last racing event was also a grass track race: 1998 in Nandlstadt. In between there are four long course world championship titles: 1980 Scheebel, 1982 Korskro / Denmark, 1987 Muhldorf and 1988 Scheebel again. Two second (1990, 1993) and four third places (1983, 1984, 1989, 1990) complete the World Cup career of the BMW dealer from Neufinsing. Eight times he was German long-course champion (1979, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993).

As in the Speedway-DM, there are various second and third places. At the beginning of the 80s Maier drove as a professional in the British Speedway League, but his great love belongs to the long track. And his Fau Leni, with whom he has been married since 1995 and has a twelve-year-old daughter.

Rail sports


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Drifting with world champion Karl Maier.

Track sport is the generic term for four individual disciplines: speedway, long track (also called sand track), grass track and ice speedway. According to the regulations, the track length at the speedway is 260 to 425 meters, in practice usually around 400 meters. Long tracks can measure 426 to 1300 meters and in practice are around 1000 meters. The races over four laps are 500 cc, single-cylinder machines with a speed of up to 130 km / h and without brakes, which have 60 to 80 hp and run on methanol. In contrast to long-track racers, speedway machines have no gearbox and no rear suspension. The first of two courses is only required on the long course at the start. The minimum weight of a speedway machine is 77 kilograms, on the long track it must be five kilograms more. Internationally, speedway is more important, in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands long-track races are more popular.

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