Michael Maderer lives together with girlfriend Linda and their daughter Isabell in the small city of Huckstorf near Rostock in the North of Germany. The now 41 years old dragracer got involved in drag racing in 2004. "A friend asked me to come to a race at an airfield in Germany. I raced my BMW M3 over there and it was so much fun I was hooked. The next two years I raced with a large 6 cylinder BMW engine with NOS. In the winter of 2006 I started to rebuilt the BMW E30 Touring drag racing car according to all official regulations. Under the hood is a Chevy 383 cui small block and depending on the nitrous oxide setting, it produces 500 to 700 bhp. The car was ready in time for the 2007 season", Maderer looks back to where it all began.
The combination proved to be consistent and in 2011 Maderer won the official Dutch Drag Racing Championship in Super Street Car and was number one in the Drag Racing Masters in Germany. But 2012 was even far more successful. "The initiative to start the EDRS European Drag Racing Series was great. We had a new goal to work to and it was the reason for us to race in Scandinavian countries too. I like to learn new racetracks and countries and although we had to travel a lot, we did nine races in 2012 and were at Hockenheim Germany, Drachten Holland, Borlänge Sweden and Gardermoen Norway.
