Alois Wiesböck Explained

Alois Wiesböck
Nationality:German
Birth Date:31 July 1950
Birth Place:Niederbergkirchen, West Germany
Career1:West Germany
Years2:1974–1979
Career2:Bopfingen
Years3:1982, 1987
Career3:Pocking
Career4:Great Britain
Years5:1979
Career5:Reading Racers
Indivyear1:1979
Indivhonour1:Long Track World Champion
Indivyear2:1974, 1976, 1978, 1981
Indivhonour2:West German Longtrack champion

Alois Wiesböck (born 31 July 1950), in Niederbergkirchen, is a former Long track motorcycle racing world champion and international motorcycle speedway rider from Germany. He earned 24 international caps for the West German national speedway team.[1]

Career

Wiesböck was winner of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1979.[2] [3]

He was also four times West German Longtrack champion in 1974, 1976, 1978 and 1981.[4] [5]

He rode in Great Britain during the 1979 British League season as a rider for the Reading Racers but only rode in two matches.[6] [7]

Wiesböck rode in the final of the 1981 and 1982 World Team Cup.[8]

World Final appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

World Longtrack Championship


+ disqualified after finishing third for having an oversize engine

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022 . British Speedway . 17 March 2024.
  2. Book: Oakes, Peter. Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30. 1981. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. 0-86215-017-5.
  3. Web site: SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK. Speedway.org.
  4. Book: Loader, Tony. Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. 1991. 166. 1036-4404.
  5. Web site: HISTORYCZNE ZESTAWIENIE WYNIKÓW 1991-2013 . Speedway History . 10 February 2023.
  6. Web site: ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022 . British Speedway . 15 August 2023.
  7. Web site: Rider averages 1929 to 2009 . Speedway Researcher . 15 August 2023.
  8. News: Ex Vikings through to World Finals . Hull Daily Mail . 7 August 1982 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 24 August 2024.