6.5.2019 Rüsselsheim. Exciting, varied and just beautiful. So you can describe what the participants, Fans and visitors to the 8. Bodensee-Klassik this weekend were able to experience.
Opel, what with a lot of HP and a-list celebrities on the spot: The audience was able to admire rally Stars from the 1970s and 1980s, live in the action, including legendary models such as the Opel Kadett B “Kulläng”, Commodore B GS/E, Kadett C GT/E of 1978 in the Ascona B 400, Corsa A Cup and Kadett E GSi.
Prominent occupation in the cockpit: Opel brand Ambassador and Le Mans winner Jockel Winkelhock completed the unique landscape of the stages through Vorarlberg, Tirol, the Allgäu and upper Swabia as well as TV Star and actor Florian Bartholomäi. It demanded not only the varied routes, but also the weather man and the Material again and again and made the rally even more exciting.
So Opel-communication-in-chief Harald Hamprecht what to go in the 190-HP Commodore B GS/E 1972 on the Bodensee-Klassik-Tour. “This rally is for vintage Fans like myself an absolute Must. On the demanding pre – Alpine and Alpine routes can show our iconic rally models, such as plenty of power and fun they bring, even today,“ says Harald Hamprecht. Opel celebrates currently 120 years of automotive engineering, 120 years of racing and 50 years of Opel Motorsport.
The Opel brand Ambassador, and the rally looks to be the ACE of Jockel Winkelhock: “whenever I can, I grave for classic rallies, a model from the large Opel-rally-treasure-chest. This time the Kadett C GT/E was a wide sports-car, as it appears in the book.“ The two Constance-stages over a total of 530 kilometres coped with the racers in the fleets of 160 HP series winner of the outgoing 1970s with flying colors.
As Winkelhock also a TV Star, Florian Bartholomäi is in the leisure of passionate Opel Insignia-driver. However, for the lake Constance classic, the 32 moved‑Year-old to the Cockpit and climbed into the Corsa A Cup of 1983. “What is the little runabout gets out of his 83 HP engine, is fabulous. This really surprised me, and me shown again, such as Opel, even in the small trolley provides fun for all“, is impressed with the actor from the exit of the Corsa A Cup.
Because this is the Opel-to allow Credo since 120 years of Pioneering technologies and a lot of fun for all. And Opel was presented at the 8. Bodensee-Klassik not only with the rally cars of the 1970s and 1980s. While this went on the track, could be the visitors to the Bregenz festival house in an Opel race car from 1903, a Manta A in the Version as a long distance touring car and an Opel Insignia Grand Sport 4×4 under the magnifying glass – and so, race and rally Feeling á la Opel from yesteryear to today.
Legendary Opel-rally-Stars on the lake Constance classic (photo: Opel Automobile GmbH)
