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Visitors to the motorcycle fair in Brno (8.–11. 3. 2018) can visit the stand of the motor racing company in Hall F, which will be held this year in the BVV area on 23 and 24 June. In the summer, racing engines will roar again between the pavilions of the Brno Exhibition Centre, which were last heard here both in the past and again last year after fifty years. The stand will be in the spirit of these races.
The highlight of every race in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 1960s were the Formula 3 cars, which ran at the exhibition grounds until 1967. Otto Buchberger successfully competed there three times. Today, the 84-year-old racer will be present at the stand with his Drak 1 single-seater, which was renovated by Brno's motorsport legend, designer and professor at the Brno Technical University, Karel Jaroš.
Another important celebrity will be Josef Michl with his Škoda 130 RS. In the 2017 season, he became the Czech champion, the Slovak champion, the winner of the FIA Central European zone and the European champion in historic car hillclimb races with the Škoda 130 RS and Porsche 911 RS. Racer and engine tuner Josef Michl (*1949) began his sports career in motocross, successfully drove in car competitions, drove Formula Easter single-seaters, but achieved the most success in touring car races. He first started on circuits at the end of the 1975 season. He won 24 titles of national champion on circuits, hills and in rally. In 1981, he was a member of the winning Škoda team in the European Touring Car Championship. He became the European champion in historic car hillclimb races twelve times. Today, Josef Michl is primarily a constructor and owner of the Michl Motorsport team.
The event partner, the Technical Museum in Brno, will exhibit Jawa road racing motorcycles from the 1970s and 1980s. The motorcycles Jawa 250 Junior/1970, Jawa 125 Boxer/1974 and Jawa 125/1974 also competed on the Masaryk Circuit in Brno. They come from the private collection of Václav Svoboda and can be seen in the permanent exhibition "Brno on Two Bikes" in the Technical Museum in Brno, Purkyňova 105.
The stand will also display the Rudge Ulster motorcycle "from the poster" from 1929. With this sidecar, E. Boxhorn won his category in the most prestigious hillclimb race in our country, Zbraslav–Jíloviště 1929. The Rudge brand was one of the fastest at the turn of the thirties, in 1930 they took the first three places in the Junior category and the first two places in the Senior category at the most important Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man. A victory that no other brand has repeated. As the icing on the cake, another Rudge sidecar will be exhibited, this time the TT Replica model equipped with a Marshall compressor.
A unique celebration for car and motorcycle lovers - Brno Revival - a festival of speed between pavilions - is being prepared by the Czechoslovak Automobile Club for Moravia and Silesia, which continues the tradition of organizing the pre-war Grand Prix of Czechoslovakia at the Masaryk Circuit.
