János Drapál
János DRÁPAL ( born February 3, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, † August 11, 1985 Piestany, Czechoslovakia) was a Hungarian motorcycle racer who was also called Agostini of the East.
DRÁPAL won 1971-1984 nine times the Hungarian motorcycle road championship and won four Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship.
Career
His debut in the World Motorcycle Championship gave János DRÁPAL 1969 Aermacchi in the 350 cc class. In 1971, the Hungarian win his first Grand Prix at the Grand Prix of Czechoslovakia on the Masaryk Circuit near Brno in the 250 cc class on Yamaha. He pointed compatriot László Szabó and the Finn Jarno Saarinen on the courts. DRÁPAL so that was the first Hungarian Grand Prix winner in the history of the discharged since 1949 MotoGP World Championship.
In the season 1972 DRÁPAL won in the 350 cc class of the Grand Prix of Yugoslavia in Opatija his second Grand Prix, defeating thereby Dieter Braun, the MV Agusta factory rider Phil Read and the Japanese Hideo Kanaya on the factory Yamaha, the einkamen in the stands two, three and four. The Hungarian took this year in the second highest engine capacity category to seventh overall, reaching the best World Cup result of his career.
1973 won János DRÁPAL in the 350 cc class victory at the Grand Prix of Austria at the Salzburg Ring and again at the Grand Prix of Yugoslavia. In order to intervene in the title fight, but he fell out too often. After 1973, the Hungarians started only at a few Grand Prix races, without it being possible to achieve presentable results.
Since DRÁPAL of his club Honvéd Budapest as well as other Hungarian racer factory motorcycles western production was made available, he scored at motorcycle race in the Eastern bloc without international participation numerous western front seats, as many of its competitors had not correspondingly powerful machines.
János DRÁPAL died on August 11, 1985 in a racing accident in a motorcycle race at the Piešťany Airport in Czechoslovakia. On 1 August 2008, a street was named after him in his native village Pilisszentiván.