Franz Wittmann, Sr.

Franz Wittmann senior ( born April 7, 1950 in Ramsau Lower Austria) is an Austrian rally driver.

Wittmann reach currently 79 wins, including 32 in the European Rally Championship and the World Rally Championship. The Austrian Rally Championship he won eleven times. So far unique will be ten-fold triumph at the January rally. Wittmann is with this balance sheet date of the most successful Austrian rally driver.

One of his all-time low points in the motorsport experienced Wittmann at the Rally Finland in 1981, when he collided after crossing the finish line of the fourth special stage ( Ehikki ) at night by car, the timekeeper, captured a small group of officials, while the president of the Finnish Automobile Sports Federation AKK Raul Falin injured fatally. Boris Rung and the FIA ​​WRC- observer Glossotis Costas from Greece came off with a fright.

Wittmann is married and has three children. His son Franz is followed in the footsteps of his father and also a rally driver. On 29 May 2006 his 17- year-old daughter Julia died in a traffic accident in Radstadt killed.

Achievements

Awards

• 2002: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the province of Lower Austria