Helmut Clasen

Helmut Clasen ( born September 3, 1935 in Cologne) is since 1957 a still more active, successful German - Canadian Enduro athletes.

Career

The motor sports journalist Robert Poensgen told him after his hussars ride at the International Six Days 1962 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, in which he came on his private DKW RT 175 GS only a few seconds behind the Czech star driver Zdenek Polanka the finish, a great career ahead. End of the 60s wandered Clasen to Canada, but remained faithful to the off-road racing. In 1971, he won on a Spanish Ossa the first six-day gold for Canada, which earned him an invitation to the Prime Minister. Clasen denied seven six-day races and won 14 times, the Canadian Off- Road Championship. Even today, the now 70 -year-old occasionally in Germany for so-called " classical off-road " at the start. In October 2007 he became the first " German - Canadian off-road athlete " in the Canadian " Motorcycle Hall of Fame".