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Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure

Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure

28. February 2016For the Hahn family and the eponymous team, 2016 marks an exceptionally eventful 20 years in the sport. The planned celebrations are some way off, however; the full focus right now at the Hahn workshops in Egenhausen, a few kilometres away from Jochen Hahn’s hometown Altensteig, is on completing the new race trucks, or giving them the final touches.
Jochen’s own MAN racer is fully race-ready, the eye-catcher in its blue-and-white livery having broken cover at a toy fair in Nuremberg at the end of January. But René Reinert’s truck is still in bits and pieces all over - and don’t forget, Hahn Racing has traditionally owned a third truck as well, meant for PR- and trade fair appearances. Last year’s one, in which Steffi Halm was so successful in the second half of the season, has found a new owner in England. The race wins and podium finishes that Steffi was able to achieve are evidence that even Team Hahn’s No. 3 truck is really no show truck at all, but a mean race machine in its own right. Don’t be surprised if you come across this one on the track this coming season.
For Jochen Hahn personally, building race trucks is as important as racing them. A good 20 Hahn trucks – Mercedes and MAN – are still tearing up tarmac around Europe, and still winning. Last season, for example, four Hahn-built trucks took the top places in the Le Mans Saturday’s second race.
The primary goal for Jochen and his team is obviously to race his own truck - and win. The bantam from Altensteig may be an institution as a constructor, but with three consecutive European titles to his name he also occupies a position of preeminence in the ETRC gallery of champions.
Heinz-Werner Lenz and Steve Parrish were the only others to achieve this feat.
The Hahns’ next goal might well be to smash Parrish’s record of five European championships. To set the record straight, however, the multiplicity of classes in those years meant there could be up to three champions a season - it’s only since 2006 that the title has been awarded to only one driver.
For Team Hahn Racing it’s also not inconceivable that Lukas steps into the racing boots of his illustrious dad Jochen and grandpa Konny. Who knows, we could even see the three Hahn generations on the track in a single race, for truck racing is ageless, in more senses than one. Not so long ago there was a 17-year-old, Benedek Major, on the podium. There have also been racers on the wrong side of 60, like Noël Crozier.
But the decision to blood the juniormost Hahn is one that will be taken when it is taken; long before that the team will be celebrating its jubilee with an open day at its Egenhausen workshops on 17 July.

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Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure
Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure
Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure
Countdown to the 2016 season: Team Hahn Racing and Team Reinert Adventure