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Siegfried Stohr: my full gas follies
TKART Staff
04 January 2017

"The event that brought me onto the national team and opened the way for my professional career was incredible..."
1969, Pista d’Oro track, Rome: it was an inter-regional challenge and I was racing on the Emilia Romagna team; our line up for category 1 (I was in category 2) included Venieri, who was already famous.

The day before the race I asked him to try my kart and he beat my lap time by half a second.
This kind of upset me, because, ok that I was young and nobody knew me, but I thought of myself as a strong driver. However, the next day we competed in a mixed field, category 1 and 2 together, and there weren’t big differences and actually, at one point, I found myself in the lead precisely in front of Venieri.

We kept in position for a couple of laps, with my mechanic waving his arms like a madman to tell me to let Venieri get ahead. We were on the same team after all and he was a lead driver of the top category.

Yet, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it and I’m not sure if he really couldn’t pass or was just waiting for me to step aside...

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