Golden Steering Wheel 2008
Miroslav Sanytrák / foto Jiří Křenek | 21.2.09 | Zlatá,ý,é, řídítka,volant, oko
Golden Steering Wheel 2008
32ND GOLDEN STEERING WHEEL
3RD GOLDEN HANDLEBARS
In the golden evening of the motorsport in the Prague's Zofin Palace, on 17 February 2009, three traditional motor events came to the climax - 32nd year of The Golden Steering Wheel for the best car racer, 3rd year of the Golden Handlebars for the best motorbike racer and the 4th year of photographic contest The Golden Eye.
In the five main categories of The Golden Steering Wheel there were some surprises. The biggest one of them was undoubtedly the end of nine year's dominance of Tomas Enge in circuit racing. He was dethroned by the winner of the European Truck Championship David Vrsecky. Among the offroads we could see the representative of rallyecross to come forth - European Champion of division 2 Tomas Kotek. The others to collect the Golden Wheels were the third of junior Word Rallye Championship Martin Prokop, European Champion of hill climb of category I Miroslav Jakes and the cart's World Vice-champion Libor Toman, who also received the Jiri Sedlar Award for the best driver under 23. The Eliska Junkova Award went to the first lady of not only Czech hills Gabriela Jermanova and Jan Tomanek, Prokop's navigator, was pronounced the Navigator of the Year. The Speed Award came to Tomas Enge: on 14 July 2008 he reached an average lap speed of 235.738 kph. The imaginary Hall of Fame of the Czech motorsport did welcome another owner of Zdenek Vojtech's Award, the pioneer of truck racing Jiri Moskal.Not even for the third time The Golden Handlebars saw a different champion at the top, as again it was taken by the 15th of the World Bike Championship of 250 ccm Lukas Pesek. The second was the World Superbike Championship participant Jakub Smrz and the third came the World Vice-champion in freestyle Libor Podmol.Results:Golden Steering Wheel
| Category Circuit Racing |
| 1. |
David Vršecký |
197 |
| 2. |
Tomáš Enge |
189 |
| 3. |
Josef Král |
71 |
| Category Rallye and marathon |
| 1. |
Martin Prokop |
221 |
| 2. |
Roman Kresta |
137 |
| 3. |
Jan Kopecký |
112 |
| Category Hillm Climb |
| 1. |
Miroslav Jakeš |
198 |
| 2. |
Petr Vojáèek |
98 |
| 3. |
Martin Jerman |
52 |
| Category Autocross and rallyecross |
| 1. |
Tomáš Kotek |
166 |
| 2. |
Petr Turek |
102 |
| 3. |
Ladislav Hanák |
78 |
| Category Carts |
| 1. |
Libor Toman |
146 |
| 2. |
Zdenìk Gróman |
94 |
| 3. |
Patrik Hájek |
55 |
Eliška Junkova Award
Gabriela JermanováJiøí Sedláø Award
Libor TomanZdeòek Vojtìch Award
Jiøí MoskalNavigator of the Year
Jan TománekSpeed Award
Tomáš EngeGolden Handlebars
| 1. |
Lukáš Pešek |
92 |
| 2. |
Jakub Smrž |
74 |
| 3. |
Libor Podmol |
64 |
Mr. Petr Dufek |
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Mr. Rosak and Ms. Rosáková |
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Martin Prokop (rallye), David Vršecký (circuit racing), Miroslav Jakeš (hillem climb), Tomáš Kotek (autocross and rallyecross) and Libor Toman (carts). |
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