Nürburgring trip ends boxer life
After years of hardline service Gert Sterner's 33 16V finally dies

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The grey Alfa Romeo 33 16V of Gert Sterner drew it's last stroke en route to a trackday at the Nürburgring in Germany. While screaming through a series of tunnels a big-end bearing broke and the boxer changed the sound track from soprano to bag-of-bricks.

The car was sold to Sasha at '75 experience' in Döttingen. He was looking for a good 16V engine and accepted the keys at an improvised ceremony in the grey drizzle, before Team ITR returned to the North Loop with only two cars left: Per Einarsson's Bertone GT and Simon Nielsen's 147 GTA.

Truely a sad day in motor racing history.
The car is towed from the crime scene; Sterner passes on the keys to 75-experience mechanic Sasha; the car in action at Pflanzgarten last year; the happy owner in the good old days at the 'ring; mourning in the danish Nurby-community in the evening at hotel 'Zur Burg'