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Bela Barenyi Prize goes to Zwickl
The Bela Barenyi Prize 2016 was awarded at the Bosch Austria headquarters on Monday evening. The award went to motorsport journalist and author Helmut Zwickl.
Bela Barenyi Prize goes to Zwickl
The award winner is a trained druggist, but his entire interest was in motorsport from a young age. When Jochen Rindt won the Le Mans race in 1965, Zwickl ended his career as a chemist and became a freelance motorsport journalist. From then on he accompanied the careers of numerous great racing drivers, which also resulted in several books. But the Viennese native was also a racing driver himself. In 2004, together with Wolfgang Stelzmüller, he achieved class victory at the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico in an old Volvo. With his friend Michael Glöckner, he founded the “Ennstal Classic” in 1993, which is now one of the leading classic car events in Europe and will be held for the 25th time in 2017.