Max Dilger

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Max Dilger
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Dilger in 2009 AC Landshut colours
Born (1989-07-14) 14 July 1989 (age 35)
Lahr, Germany
NationalityGerman
Career history
Germany
2003–2006 Diedenbergen
2007 Wolfslake
2007 Pfaffenhofen
2008 Neuenknick
2009–2011 Landshut
2012 Brokstedt
2021 Wittstock
2022 Berghaupten
Poland
2006 Miskolc
2007–2008 Łódź
2009–2010 Opole
2010–2012, 2019, 2022 Piła
2013 Krosno
2020 Rawicz
Great Britain
2009–2010 Edinburgh
2012–2013 Redcar
2014 Peterborough
Sweden
2023 Dackarna
Individual honours
2021 German longtrack champion
2011Belgian Champion
Team honours
2022, 2024 World Longtrack Team Champion

Max Dilger (born 14 July 1989) [1] is a motorcycle speedway and longtrack speedway rider from Germany. He earned 3 international caps for the German national speedway team. [2] [3]

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Career

In 2006, Dilger started racing in Poland and rode for the Hungarian team Speedway Miskolc during the 2006 Polish speedway season. He would then spend two seasons with Łódź. [3]

In 2008, Dilger won the German Junior Championship and was nominated as a track reserve at 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany, but was replaced by Kevin Wölbert.

He started racing in the British leagues during the 2009 Premier League speedway season, when riding for the Edinburgh Monarchs. [4] Also in 2009, Dilger rode for Kolejarz Opole in the Polish Speedway Second League. He would stay with both the Scottish club and Opole in 2010.

He then joined Polonia Piła in Poland for 2011 and 2012 and returned to British speedway with the Redcar Bears in 2012. [5]

After the 2014 season with Peterborough Panthers he left conventional speedway to concentrate on longtrack and was very successful reaching several World Longtrack Series finals.

In 2019, he was part of the German team, along with Lukas Fienhage and Martin Smolinski, that won the silver medal at the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship. [6] He also returned to league speedway in 2019, re-joining Polonia Piła and after two more seasons, once again joined Piła for the 2022 Polish speedway season. In 2022, he was part of the German team, along with Erik Riss and Lukas Fienhage that won the 2022 Team Long Track World Championship. [7]

He was on Dackarna's roster for the 2023 Swedish speedway season and in 2024, riding with Daniel Spiller for the Herxheim Drifters, Dilger took third place in the German pairs championship. [8] In 2024, he won another gold medal at the 2024 FIM Long Track of Nations. [9] [10]

Results

Speedway

World Championships

European Championships

Longtrack

World Longtrack Championship

YearGPPointsPosGP WinsGP Podiums
2017 161900
2018 3311000
2019 544900
2020 219800

Grasstrack

European Championship

YearVenuePointsPos
2017 Flag of Germany.svg Hertigan NRS0
2018 Flag of France.svg Tayac 98
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Bad Hersfeld 119
2020 Flag of France.svg Tayac 125

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References

  1. ↑ Świat Żużla, No 1 (81) 2009, pages 54-55, ISSN   1429-3285
  2. ↑ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Max Dilger Niemcy". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "Max Dilger". WWOS Backup. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Max Dilger and Redcar Bears too hot for Devils". Teesside Live. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "World Longtrack Championship". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "2022 RESULTS Herxheim – Long Track of Nations". FIM. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Speedway: Platz drei für Max Dilger und Daniel Spiller". Stadtanzeiger Ortenau. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Erik Riss holt Gold für Deutschland". Schwabische. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Langbahn-Team-WM: Deutschland zum zehnten Mal Weltmeister". DMV. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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