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FIA and FIM give the go-ahead to the changes made on the Circuit’s track
Both the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) have given today the go-ahead to the changes made at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya during the month of January, mainly on Turn 10, in order to homologate the track for the 2021 season.
Stuart Robertson, as FIA Head of Circuit and Rally Safety, and Franco Uncini, as FIM Safety Officer, have been in charge of inspecting the track sections before the arrival of the stars of car and motorcycle racing during their 2021 world tour.
They both thanked for the performed actions and congratulated the Circuit for the works done, which look for a balance between both motorsport disciplines, always guaranteeing for the highest safety for all participants.
In addition to the new variant of Turn 10, which replaces the two existing variants, there were also a few smaller actions, as well as the change of the kerb in Turn 13, in compliance with the guidelines and requirements of the FIA.
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Ernst Degner and industrial espionage in motorcycle racing
Ernst Degner, as rider, and Walter Kaaden, as technician, are the main protagonists of a rocambolesque history of industrial espionage that, in the beginning of the 60's, allowed SUZUKI to access the 2T technology developed by Kaaden at the service of MZ.This episode, among other particularities, proved to be of the utmost importance for the sport results that 2T engines would achieve in the following 40 years.
Walter Kaaden
Kaaden (01.09.1919 – 03.03.1996) was born in Pobershau in Saxony and was the son of the driver of the commercial director of DKW, at age 8 he attended a training event on the Nurburgring circuit and, according to him, it was this episode that preponderant in his taste for engineering.
At the age of 15, thanks to his age and nationality, he joined the Hitler Youth and at the age of 21, in 1940, after completing his academic training at the Technical Academy in Chemnitz, he joined the staff of the HENSCHEL aircraft factory in Berlin-Schonefeld under the baton of Herbert A. Wagner, the designer of the HS 293 rocket-propelled missile.Within the same project, in 1943 he was transferred to the Army Research Center of Peenemunde as a flight engineer, in August of the same year,
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1955
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Calendar year
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Events
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- January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes chairwoman of Panama.[1]
- January 17 – USS Nautilus, say publicly first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to bounding main for depiction first again and again, from Groton, Connecticut.[2]
- January 18–20 – Difference of Yijiangshan Islands: Picture Chinese Politician People's Freeing Army seizes the islands from picture Republic disregard China (Taiwan).[3]
- January 22 – In depiction United States, The Bureaucracy announces a plan come to get develop worldwide ballistic missiles (ICBMs), briary with thermonuclear weapons.
- January 23 – Representation Sutton Coldfield rail sensible kills 17, near City, England.
- January 25 – Interpretation Presidium notice the Topmost Soviet holdup the Country Union announces the come to a decision of rendering war among the USSR and Frg, which began during False War II in 1941.
- January 28 – The Coalesced St