History & Achievements

• 2020

  ERC

  After the Austrian championship title in 2018, Niki Mayr Melnhof and Poldi Welsersheimb move up to the next league and take part in the ERC (European Rally Championship).

• 2019

  ERC

  After the Austrian championship title in 2018, Niki Mayr Melnhof and Poldi Welsersheimb move up to the next league and take part in the ERC (European Rally Championship).

• 2018

  Austrian rally state champion

  Niki Mayr Melnhof and Poldi Welsersheimb crowned Austrian rally champion for the first time with the drift company Ford Fiesta R5 and defeated the WRC pack in their Ford Fiesta R5.

• 2017

  Third place

  After a fiercely contested season against three WRC drivers, Mayr Melnhof and Welsersheimb are third overall in the DriftCompany Ford Fiesta R5. In the meantime, they had even sensationally managed to take the lead in the overall standings.

• 2017

  Schneebergland Rally

  At the Schneebergland Rally the Forstinger rally team celebrates the first overall victory in the Austrian Rallye Staatsmeisterschaft. This with the Ford Fiesta R5 against 3 competitors in their powerful WRC's.

• 2016

  Santa Domenica Rally Show

  DriftCompany wins the Croatian "Santa Domenica Rally Show" with Beppo Harrach for the fourth time in a row.

• 2015

  The Forstinger rally team

  The Forstinger rally team is founded and will race for the first time with Niki Mayr Melnhof and Leopold Welsersheimb at the Waldviertel Rally in the driftcompany Ford Fiesta R5.

• 2014

  State champion title right off

  The Driftcompany celebrates with Miklos Kazar and the new Ford Fiesta R5 right away the Hungarian Rally State Champion title.

• 2014

  Miklos Kazar signs contract

  The Hungarian champion of the years 2012 and 2013 Miklos Kazar signs a contract for the year 2014 at DriftCompany.

• 2014

  First Action

  At the first action of the Ford Fiesta R5 at the A123 Test Rally in Hungary, team boss Beppo Harrach celebrates the first overall victory of the Drift Company Ford Fiesta R5.

• 2014

  New Rules

  The FIA ​​has passed new regulations, and there is no future for the close-to-production Gr N rally cars anymore. Therefore the team management decides to use a new technology. A brand new Ford Fiesta R5 from the Ford factory team M-Sport will be purchased and made available for missions.

• 2013

  Austrian vice state champion

  Gerwald Grössing becomes Austrian rally vice-champion in another Drift Company Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX R4.

• 2012

  A hotly contested season

  Beppo Harrach rallies with the DriftCompany Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX R4 in a highly competitive season and celebrates two victories this season.

• 2011

  First Austrian championship title

  Beppo Harrach and the DiTech Racing Team become Austrian rally champions with a DriftCompany Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX R4 and celebrate 8 overall victories, 6 of them in the ÖRM. The experts are upside down, because they had given the close-to-production Mitsubishi before the season no chance against the purebred S2000 factory cars.

• 2011

  The Mitsubishi Lancer Evo

  At the Castrol Judenburg Pölstal Rallye the DriftCompany is running the Austria premiere of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX R4 and pilot Beppo Harrach wins this event with the new car.

• 2010

  The story of success begins

  The computer reseller DiTech establishes a new rally team with the DiTech Racing Team, which is managed by the DriftCompany. Beppo Harrach is hired as a driver and a success story begins. The team celebrates 13 overall victories in just four years, becoming once Austrian rally champion, once vice-state champion and three-time rally cup winner. The Drift Company is known as a specialist in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution models.

• 2009

  First rally school

  The first rally school is held.

• 2009

  First rally

  The first rally takes place at the Triestingtal Rally, and team boss Beppo Harrach immediately celebrates the youngest team's first overall victory in the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX.

• 2009

  Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX

  A Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, as well as several Suzuki Ignis are bought.

• 2009

  The founding

  The DritftCompany is founded by Beppo Harrach as a rally school and rally team.