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Motorsport#

Motor Sports: The beginning of motorcar sports was largely dominated by airport races (circuit races) and mountain races (with single starts) as well as classifying races (rallies), major events being the airport races of Aspern (for the Prize of the City of Vienna), at Hoersching and Zeltweg (for the Great Prize of Austria/Grosser Preis von Oesterreich, in 1964 for the first time as World championship race). The Zeltweg airport races were the forerunners of the Formula-1 races on the Oesterreich-Ring, built in 1968 (Formula-1 races 1969-1987). Most well-known Austrian Formula-1 racers: J. Rindt, N. Lauda, G. Berger and K. Wendlinger.


The Salzburgring (1st race in 1969), where motor cycle races and the Historic Grand Prix for historic racing, sports, and rally cars takes place every year, developed out of the "Gaisbergrennen", the race up the Gaisberg mountain road. Of the former mountain races up the Wiener Hoehenstrasse road, the Dobratsch, Koralpe and Semmering mountains, only the Rechberg Race still takes place as a European championship race. The International Semperit Rally, which started before World War I, was run from Bregenz to Vienna; today it is held as a European championship race in the Waldviertel region. The Austrian Alpine Rally (Alpenfahrt) (until 1970) was the most popular and most important rally in Austria.


Cross-country car races and cross-country rallies developed from rally sport. European championship races are run in both sections on courses in Horn/Fuglau (North Ring) and in Melk. The Austrians Franz Wurz and Herbert Gruensteidl have both won the title of European champion.


In recent years alternative motor sports sectors have developed, which have mainly served to improve environmentally-friendly vehicles. The Austro Solar fair for solar and electric vehicles has been held since 1989, and the EVN Cup has taken place since 1992 on the driving training ground of the OeAMTC, the Austrian Automobile Association, in Teesdorf (Lower Austria), as part of the FIA Solar Worldcup.


In motorcycle sports the Austrian speedway racers Fritz Dirtl and Martin Schneeweiss won international fame. The races were first run on Heumarkt street in Vienna and on the trotting courses of Vienna and Baden until they were transferred to the stadiums of Wiener Neustadt, Natschbach and St. Johann. The 2-day Enduro Races for the European Championship in Weitra and Neumarkt developed from the Alpine Races. Rupert Hollaus (World Champion) and August Auinger were especially successful in mountain and circuit races.


In the 1970s the Triumph Club Vienna brought trial sports to Austria. After some single world championship races, the Team World Championship of 1995 was held in Piesting (Lower Austria).


The most popular motorcycle sport in Austria is cross-country motorcycling. International races have been run in Sittendorf (Lower Austria) since 1957. Cross-country racers riding motorcycles made by the Austrian companies Puch and KTM have won world championships several times. The Austrian Heinz Kinigadner became World Champion in 1984 and 1985. Since 1985 indoor cross-races have also been held in halls.


The highest motor sports institution in Austria is the OeAMTC and its "Oberste Nationale Sportkommission" (OSK), Supreme National Sports Commission, which has been holding the Austrian national championships in all the individual motor sport sectors, which take place every year, since 1948.

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