Max Dilger

Max Dilger (born 14 July 1989)[1] is a motorcycle speedway and longtrack speedway rider from Germany.[2][3]

Max Dilger
Born (1989-07-14) 14 July 1989
Lahr, Germany
NationalityGerman
Career history
Germany
2007MC Pfaffenhofen
2012MSC Brokstedt
2021Wittstock
Poland
2006Miskolc
2007–2008Łódź
2009–2010Opole
2010–2012, 2019, 2022Piła
2013Krosno
2020Rawicz
Great Britain
2009–2010Edinburgh
2012–2013Redcar
2014Peterborough
Sweden
2023Dackarna
Individual honours
2011Belgian Champion
Team honours
2022World Longtrack Team Champion
2019World Longtrack Team silver

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.

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.[5]

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.[6]

He was on Dackarna's roster for the 2023 Swedish speedway season.

Speedway

World Championships

European Championships

Longtrack

Grand-Prix Series
Year GP Points Pos GP Wins GP Podiums
2017161900
20183311000
2019544900
2020219800

Grasstrack

European Championship
Year Venue Points Pos
2017Germany HertiganNRS0
2018France Tayac98
2019Germany Bad Hersfeld119
2020France Tayac125

See also

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. "Max Dilger Niemcy". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  4. "Max Dilger". WWOS Backup. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  5. "World Longtrack Championship". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. "2022 RESULTS Herxheim – Long Track of Nations". FIM. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
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