He competed mainly on a national level during his career, winning the Austrian championship 12 times between 1976 and 2001.
In 1987 he won Rally New Zealand in a privately entered Lancia Delta HF 4WD.
He failed to spot the finish sign at the end of the Ehikki stage and crashed into race officials.
One of those hit was Raul Falin, the president of AKK-Motorsport and the Finnish delegate at FISA, who died in the crash.
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