Ennstal: Star line-up from Switzerland 🎥
WHERE YOU MEET The Ennstal Classic 2022 will take place in Austria from July 20 to 23. A star-studded Swiss team will also be taking part in the largest classic sporting event in our neighboring country.
The traditional team "Automobile-Flückiger Classic"/"Emil Frey Classics AG" will take part in the anniversary edition of the Ennstal Classic (30 years) with six vehicles after a three-year interruption. Due to its composition, the Swiss team will undoubtedly attract the attention of the public.
Homage to two Formula 1 icons
Ladies first - the women's team of Lisa Brabham and Caroline Hoi will be racing an Austin A35 (gallery on the left), a special and unique vehicle from 1957. The little car, which is well-known from the English crime novel Murtyl, will also be used as a tribute to Graham Hill and Frank Williams - both of whom began their motorsport careers on such a vehicle.
Thanks to the generous support of "Emil Frey Classics AG" from Safenwil, it is possible at all for the team with Max Welti (ex Sauber F1 team boss and Porsche race director) and Daniel Mauerhofer to enter a Jaguar XK120 from 1950 (center gallery) in the approximately 800-kilometer long classic car rally.
Two racing legends in sporty road cars
David Brabham, son of racing legend Sir Jack Brabham and now sole rights holder of the Brabham brand, will be starting at the Ennstal Classic for the second time. Together with interior designer Georg Treusch, the former F1 driver and Le Mans winner will drive a sporty Porsche 911 T (1972).
Swiss racing legend Jo Vonlanthen (gallery right, right) joins Gregor Petereder at the start in an Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 Spider (1962) from the Meilenstein Museum in Langenthal. Even at the age of 80, "Little Jo" is always one of the crowd favorites at all motorsport events.
Best care for all
The team Bruno Flückiger (ex F1 and Brun Motorsport mechanic as well as Sauber Mercedes technician) and Heinz alias Swixi Müller (longtime ski wax boss of the Austrian National Ski Team) will start with the 1960 Auto Union 1000S Coupé, which has already been tested several times in the Ennstal.
Dr. Chris Paerson/Martin Treusch are entered with an Austin Seven Mini (1957). The vet is known, among other things, as the author of the English crime series Murtyl. Treusch works as a developer at Porsche in Weissach.
The teams are supported by a four-man technical team around the former Swiss karting champion and current garage owner Marcel Frei from Grosshöchstetten.
30 years of Ennstal Classic .... or how to fill up with new joie de vivre
The Ennstal Classic inventors Michael Glöckner and Helmut Zwickl do "motorsport like in the old days" with the cars of yesteryear on the roads of today. Their motto is "Driving in the last paradise".
It's the mix that makes the three-day event so popular: the sense of achievement in the cockpit, the great track layout, and the evening festivities, where steering wheel legends and TV stars, as well as top business managers and motorsport-loving fans, get closer than anywhere else.
The Ennstal-Classic 2022 will take place from July 20 to 23. The complete program, the route and the start list are available on the Internet.
