Walter Röhrl

Walter Röhrl (Born 7. March 1947 in Regensburg) is a German rally driver. "The Long," how to be in the media often-used nickname is, was between 1973 and 1987, as a professional, active and winning two FIA drivers ' world Championships (1980 and 1982), as well as a European championship (1974). Parallel to his career as a rally athlete Röhrl also drove around the race track. His career as a professional racing driver ended in 1992 at Audi, where he had already perceived, since 1988, mainly for development tasks. The last championship in which he started, was the DTM. Since 1993, Walter Röhrl representative and test driver at Porsche. For this brand, he took part in until 1994 sporadically to race, until today, he contests, driving in historic sports cars.