24.7.2020 original design. Newly crowned Le Mans winner, came out 20 years ago to Opel. Joachim Winkelhock Opel Astra V8 coupe has a powerful 460 hp (wed German touring Masters), the second DTM has entered. Global and Schwabe, Germany Hessen: a racer as a brand ambassador in four years, has remained for the last 16 years.
“Joachim Winkelhock, with a great brand ambassador. Moreover, despite the successes of the Race All always realistic, touching a star. While driving us classics classic car rallies, the audience is very excited. Great expertise brought in the form for sporty models and the driver. Perfect for anniversary cooperation“, Opel CEO Michael lohschel greeting thank you for 20 years.
All this and more, Formula 1 driver Joachim Winkelhock, wed British Touring masters Champion, Le Mans, DTM champion and Opel brand ambassador. Smoke the rear tyre in the UK and “Smokin’ Jo” for faggots like he is respected because of his earlier passion. -Fast Swabia I called him a lightning in Germany for every “Jockel” – a perfect name. – And in an appropriate manner the name “jockey” reminds me of.
As Jockel gallop 1988, Schumacher Manager Willi Weber WTS 3 in the team championship, Germany and won the European Formula. Kind of before the work begins exactly a year later, Formula 1 AGS-air sniffed. In 1993, Smokin’ Jo, UK BMW has won the championship. His time in Munich in 1999 was crowned with victory in the legendary 24 hours of Le Mans.
Ironically, this opened secret negotiations with the global ambassador classic racing to the edge of Winkelhock. “I couldn’t imagine a change in the first place, but the Opel people you wanted to see me wouldn’t allow it,” she says. Winkelhock returned to the DTM in 2000 with Opel and perseverance paid off. Passenger car pilot, Nuremberg’s Norisring favorite in the race, the pole position and turned the Astra V8 coupe “in the beginning there were a lot of strong riders,” he says. “I built the car will start the race opened up the doors doors that have to pay the team, he looks amazing!” Immediately after the first winged Norisring city that won the race. In four seasons with helmets hanging nail at the end of 2003 Opel DTM Jockel then the total for each time. Any race “after I went, Never Again.”
Jockel race against other racers on the race track – very good, but Opel classic car rallies Classic treasures with a swing as you move, until today. “There are my two favorite cars! Factory Rally driver Anders Kullang Opel Kadett B 1900 1971 once – a pure delight. New Opel rally Kadett Opel Corsa made this very popular sport-e it’s like the ancestor of the rally. I am using a beloved student rich classic Curve Lake Constance. And then Opel Commodore a V8 cruiser that is very comfortable. A big V8 front-long travel suspension and a sofa on wheels in a bad way, the floating admiral is bubbling. Of course, if my wife, Sally, sitting next to me.“
Classic car rallies in this situation, unfortunately, this year it wasn’t. This family home in a basket and then start Winkelhock, quietly and always smooth on the highway as I had a company car Global Opel electricity and just because Big Country X-in front of the garage in the house is a hybrid: “for the first time, I was able to make a new experience with a plug.”
(Source: Automobile Opel GmbH)Joachim Winkelhock
