Karl Gall
Karl Gall ( born October 27, 1903 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † June 13, 1939 in Ramsey, Isle of Man) was an Austrian motorcycle racer.
Gall was for many years the BMW factory driver and 1937 German motorcycle road champion ³ in the class up to 500 cm.
- 2.1 Title
- 2.2 race wins
Career
Karl Gall was the youngest of three brothers - Francis, Adolf, and Charles, who were all racing drivers - and learned the trade of motor vehicle mechanic. He won his first race in 1924 on a 350- cc - Zenith -JAP on a dirt track in his hometown. 1925 Gall won on a New Imperial the 250 cc race for the Austrian TT in Hinterbrühl. In 1927, the Austrian was factory driver at BMW, for whom he drove road race. He stood at BMW with the exception of 1929, when he started for the Ludwigsburg factory default until 1933 and between 1936 and 1939 under contract.
1930, Karl Gall in the race for the Grand Prix of Germany at the Nürburgring a serious accident in which he drew upon a complicated broken hand, the three years prevent him from taking part in the race. In the season 1936, the Austrians went for the first time on the newly developed 500 cc supercharged engine at the start.
1937 Gall was successful career year. He won the Eilenriede race in Hanover, the Grand Prix of Hungary, the Eifel Race at the Nürburgring, the Dutch TT at Assen as well as the Grand Prix of Germany at Sachsenring and was German road champion in the 500 cc class. From 1938, the Austrians launched after the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich in Germany. In the same year Karl Gall won the Hamburg city park race, and the Avus race in Berlin. On the Hanoverian Eilenriede he had to defer only his teammate Schorsch Meier. In the rest of the season he rushed in preparing for the Isle of Man TT, the toughest motorcycle race in the world at that time, heavy and had an injury to discard all other races.
Fatal Accident
On June 2, 1939 accident Karl Gall in the evening training for TT on the Isle of Man, in which he took part in the 500 cc class, called the Senior TT, heavy. On his first lap he was jumping on the Ballaugh Bridge to fall and withdrew it serious head injuries. He was taken to the nearby Ramsey Cottage Hospital and operated on. However, his condition was deteriorating in the following days. On June 13, 1939 Gall died from his injuries.
Karl Gall is on the Munich Waldfriedhof buried. On the Isle of Man, today a memorial stone at him.