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The eighties marked the creation of the Formula K 135.
The 135 class karts are directly coupled without gearbox,
like the 100 models, and are more powerful. The first
135 world championship took place in Parma in 1981 and
Birel won the first three standings with Mike Wilson,
Lars Forsman and Ruggero Melgrati. Wilson repeated himself
in 1982 and 1983, but experienced engine failure on the
last lap of the 1984 Championship, at Liedolsheim in Germany,
when he was in the lead.
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1983, Gianni Mazzola won the first 125 World Championship
for Birel and Lars Forsman won the prestigious Hong Kong
Grand Prix and the CIK Asia-Pacific Championship in Cockburn,
Australia, in 1982-83. Despite this impressive successful
streak, Birel announced that the team would retire at
the end of the 1984 season.
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Staff
in Lissone preferred to concentrate on production to offer
customers increasingly refined and competitive products
and top level sports activities are left to external teams.
Mika Hakkinen, the future Formula 1 star, raced for the
team managed by Finnish importer Pekka Pirkola, during
the mid-eighties.
Birel conquered four Junior World Championship titles,
one with Romeo Deila, two with Andrea Gilardi and a forth
with Fabrizio De Simone, from 1982 to 1986.
Gilardi won his second World Championship title in Le
Mans, in 1985, over future Formula 1 champion Michael
Schumacher. |
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