At the race held at the Valleys of Bergamo (27/29 June) three of these splendid racing motorcycles were entered. Two were entrusted to the Austrians, Johan Sommerauer and Heribert Dietrich and one to the young, less experienced, Italian Carlo Paganessi. The foreign teams' interest in the local riders, each had its own protégés, was ongoing and primarily for two reasons.
The first reason was obviously tactical, in that each rider was extremely skilled, but the second was strategic. To have a local rider on your team enabled the whole team to benefit from the local rider's knowledge of the terrain and allowed them to have an experienced guide in the two weeks prior to the event.
Of the three riders only Sommerauer finished the, as always, very competitive trials; managing an altogether excellent 17^th place in a field of 61 competitors that finished.

After the successes of Zündapp and Hercules in the previous years, in 1966 the rules and regulations were amended to the detriment of the smaller engine capacities; the victory of Werner Salewsky and Peter Uhlig on their MZ was the logical result thereof, but the fact that they even classified ahead of many other motorcycles with a higher engine capacity attests to their excellent achievement.
A few months later, at the Swedish Six Days of Villingsberg (30 August – 4 September), the two Puch 50 and a 125 which were entered achieved an undeniable great victory: the whole team finished the trials with three gold medals and Johan Sommerauer came first in the 125 class.