Inga Stracke

Inga Stracke

The Network broadcast team is lead by Inga Stracke of Pole Position Reports GmbH.Stracke, a Formula 1 radio veteran, brings a proven track record of success to the project.She will take on the dual roles of Executive Producer and Pit Reporter.

"I am very excited to be a part of the U.S. Formula One Radio Network," said Inga Stracke.

Inga StrackePresident of Pole Position Reports and Chief EditorStill in school at the age of 15 Inga started to write for the local newspaper.Soon after she enrolled at university to study literature, art history and communications, she made her on-air-radio debut at the age of 18.She moved on to television two years later and soon, just a year after receiving her university diploma, founded Pole Position Reports.She was Germany's first female Formula One pit lane TV reporter and the first to produce an exclusive two-hour, play-by-play radio show from each Formula One Grand Prix, delivered via satellite across the entire US.She is also the F1 chief reporter for the biggest german-language motorsport website www.motorsport-total.com

To be part of this exciting business and lifestyle is great," explains Inga Stracke, president of Pole Position Reports.
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Pole Position Reports president Inga Stracke has established Formula One broadcasting across a radio network of over 500 radio stations in German-speaking Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria), the US and Canada.The audience in Germany alone sums up to nearly 9 million listeners (net/hour) according to the latest evaluation (MA2003).
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The team of Justin Hynes (commentary), Derek Hill (part time co-commentator/driver expert), Inga Stracke (pitlane interviews), Sibylle Kloser (paddock interviews), Jörg Gruensfelder (studio producer) and Britta Weddige (co-ordination) produced a two-hour play-by-play show across the US with prominent interview guests like Mario Andretti, Phil Hill, Danny Sullivan, Derek Bell, Monaco's Prince Albert, Jay Kay of Jamiroquai, the Maverick's Dirk Novitzki and more…
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Inga herself has become quite a TV celebrity with her behind-the-scenes F1 series 'Inga's World' on German Sports TV Channel DSF and through her prominent position as pit lane interviewer for Germany's digital TV Premiere.In 2001 and 2002 she was Formula One's pitlane co-commentator and chief reporter for the Swiss national TV SRDRS.Since 2001, she is also the Formula One expert of Germany's CNN variant, NTV.In 2003 she was co-host of Chinese television network CCTV's Formula One broadcast, as the billion-strong nation gears up for this year's inaugural Chinese Grand Prix.

In addition to the media coverage, Pole Position Reports has carried out PR work for Audi, Toyota, Nissan, Ford, MOBIL 1 and others.