Biography with a lion's tracks of Horst Eckert
Portrait with Loins bite by Horst Eckert


With 14 years sniffed Horst Eckert on his first visit to the Nürburgring Formula 1 air already Sah and Jim Clark and Graham Hill to take the victory. With 17 years he taught the Cologne Formula 1 driver Stommelen Rolf, who also participated in its performance as a cyclist training in Cologne participated. The Endschluss after his racer bike race was now to be finally adopted. In the Army, he became driving and was trained in the area on two and four at home. There followed the first steps in slalom circuit and on his private Alfa Romeo.

1986 he taught the works rally driver of BMW Gaston Rahier know. "You have to be next year come to Dakar, there will be no more night trips." That told me Gaston, in one sentence in three languages, was brought as a private BMW driver for use on the Paris-Algiers-Dakar 1987 was looking for. Score BMW took me and the Austrians Mairinger into the team.

Horst Eckert Later in the Porsche Cup. But his great love was and is the desert. This builds up to date with Horst Eckert Hock-Racing, his team of the Dakar Porsche Cayenne S for the Rally Raid bets on.

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