Alois Wiesböck

Alois Wiesböck
Born (1950-07-31) 31 July 1950 (age 74)
Niederbergkirchen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Career history
West Germany
1974–1979Bopfingen
1982, 1987Pocking
Great Britain
1979Reading Racers
Individual honours
1979Long Track World Champion
1974, 1976, 1978, 1981West 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

References

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