A McLaren and an Alfa Romeo are said to have fought a prohibited motor vehicle race on June 30th last year on the Kesselberg.
Now the incident went to court.
Kochel am See - A computer scientist (48) from Berg (Starnberg district), a businessman (55) from Weilheim and a carpenter (60) from Murnau had to answer before the Wolfratshauser district court because of the allegation of illegal car racing.
After a four-hour hearing and hearing eight witnesses, there was hardly anything left of the accusation: The McLaren driver from Lake Starnberg was fined 2000 euros for attempted coercion, and the occupants of the Alfa Romeo were acquitted.
Eight witnesses - but different accounts
Several callers reported an illegal race to the police that Tuesday evening. In their statements in court, however, the witnesses did not produce a congruent picture. “I thought: Now they are starting too, you’re used to it from motorcycles. But car races on the Kesselberg don't have to be, ”said a Benediktbeurer (40) who climbed the serpentines with a friend for an after-work tour on his racing bike. He noticed the high-horsepower cars several times. The cars shot past them at excessive speed and too close. "The first time there was no case of beer in between," the witness reported. The rear one had "already pushed properly". "Then he was in a different place or he experienced something different than me",The accused McLaren driver was furious.
Raser am Kesselberg: A defendant convicted of coercion
Another witness (37) stated that the two sports cars were traveling much faster than permitted (“90 to 110 kilometers per hour”).
In addition, the distance to him when overtaking was much too close.
"I thought, if he makes a dangling now," he clears us away, "the experienced racing cyclist described a situation when the Alfa Romeo came towards him on the way back downhill in a bend.
However, he arranged the order of the vehicles differently than his buddy.
And that wasn't the only inconsistency in the observer's memories.
A car mechanic (44) from Bad Heilbrunn, who also trampled up the B 11 on a racing bike, said he was overtaken "extremely tightly and at high speed".
However, in its description, the McLaren had measured itself against two motorcycles.
The Alfa Romeo followed at a greater distance.
Two accused acquitted
The accused McLaren driver admitted to having driven up and down the Kesselberg several times that evening because he was waiting for a free parking space at the "Gray Bear" where he wanted to eat with a friend. He did not remember cyclists whom he had just overtaken. And he just happened to follow the Alfa Romeo once because it drove off the curb in front of him. The two occupants of the Alfa did not provide any information. You have been acquitted. During the trial, it was not clear which of the two was behind the wheel. It was also not found that there had been "agreements" between the defendants to compete. "Not every fast driving is a race", explained judge Helmut Berger, who thought it was only proventhat the McLaren driver “did not drive up the hill at the permitted 60 km / h”, “overtook some cyclists in a terrifying way” and drove too close to the Alfa. He sentenced the 48-year-old to 40 daily rates of 50 euros for attempted coercion.
The prosecutor had demanded tougher sentences.
She had identified the Weilheimer as an Alfa driver and applied for a fine of 2400 euros against him, the McLaren driver was supposed to pay 5600 euros (80 daily rates).
In addition, she had applied to withdraw the driver's license for ten months as well as the two vehicles.
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