German Sportklasse Champions

As some of you might know, 2007 was the first year the German Tractor Pulling Association had a nationwide championship for the so called "Sportklasse" - 2700 rpm limited hot farms.
After teams could qualify for the finals all over northern germany, last saturday was the big day for them at the Tractor Pull in Schmachtenhagen, a little village next to Berlin. Along with the Garden Pullers and the unlimited mods they drew a crowd of app. 2500 people, who were all in an excellent mood and really cheered for each competitor.

The 3.5t Sportklasse saw a very close competition between the Team Willingen and the Team Beesten, both running Deutz tractors. In the end Heiko Behle on Daisy won ahead of his team mate Dirk Scholz on "Lady" and Klaus Röttger on his 90 06.


In the 4.5t Sportklasse there was no way past the "Blue Wum" of Team ABC Cloppenburg. The Ford actually ran out of track in the end. Actually no surprise, as it's the only tractor in the competition with more than 7 litres engine capacety.
Heiko Behle again had a good run and finished in runner up position while Rainer Röttger of Team Beesten managed to get past the Lady Deutz this time and ended up in third place. After all it was a good first year for the german hot farm pullers.

We had 14 tractors take part in the championships and for next year we expect even more competitors. A couple of tractors are getting prepared at present and some of them will make their first showing at Lengerich next weekend. Others are supposed to come out at Weseke and Füchtorf next year. Rumors speak about one big John Deere and a V8 MF both for the 4,5t and a Renault, two or three more Deutz, another John Deere and maybe even an Oliver for the 3,5t class.