Jan Mohr will never forget July 24, 2022. The 26-year-old Austrian from the champion Alpha Van Zon BMW team had a serious collision in the first IDM Superbike race on the Schleizer Dreieck, in which Toni Finsterbusch (GERT56) was dragged into it through no fault of his own. Both drivers suffered massive injuries but fought their way back into the racing scene. Jan Mohr and his brother Ken, who is three years younger, have captured the path of his own comeback in moving images. The film goes online on YouTube today.
“For a long time I wasn’t sure whether I would continue at all,” says Mohr, who comes from Hohenems, about the past few years. In Schleiz he crashed into a pile of tires without braking and broke a thoracic vertebra and two others. He also suffered a fracture to his left ankle bone. “We documented the time from the hospital to my return. How I walked on crutches to the removal of the two rods and 12 screws that I had in my back for half a year.” Jan Mohr drove a race at the Red Bull Ring for the first time last year. Ken recorded everything. He had actually planned to make a guest start in the Yamaha R7 Cup, but because he had broken his collarbone two years earlier, the race was canceled. Instead, he ran back and forth and filmed his brother, edited the material and put the finishing touches to it. Ken is studying animation & visual effects at the Prague School of Creative Communication.
At 22:56 minutes, the viewer is immersed in the world of racing. Even an accident cannot slow down someone who has the racing DNA in their blood – with all its good and bad sides.
