KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE SINCE 1999
Kurt Adolff
5/11/1921
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Adolff had enjoyed competition on home soil driving Mercedes 170 saloons along with Fritz Riess and Karl Kling. But his performances with the 2-litre Veritas RS sports between 1950 and 1952 brought him to the fore, his results including two third places at the Nurburgring.
In 1953 Kurt joined Ecurie Espadon, handling Swiss driver Rudi Fischer's Ferrari. After bringing it into a distant fourth place in the Eifelrennen, he retired the same car in that year's Grand Prix.
Adolff subsequently competed in hill-climbs with a Jaguar.
(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000
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Erwin Bauer 1912 - 1958
Formula One driver for the Veritas team who died in the 1958 ADAC 1000 because he failed to notice the chequered flag and continued at racing pace. Coming across a slower car, his Ferrari slid wide and crashed into trees. -
Theo Helfrich 1913 - 1978
Helfrich contested the 1952, 53 and 54 German Grands Prix. He took second at Le Mans in 1952 with Helmut Niedermayr. -
Hans Herrmann 1928
Formula One and Sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany. In F1, he participated in 18 grands prix, debuting on August 2, 1953. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 10 championship points. In Sports car racing, he also scored the first overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche in 1970, on a Porsche 917. -
Josef Peters 1914 - 2001
Drove a Veritas-BMW in the early 1950s and retired from his only World Championship outing in the 1952 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. -
Harry Merkel 1918 - 1995
Harry Merkel tried but failed to qualify Willi Krakau's BMW Eigenbau in the 1952 German Grand Prix. He also competed in sports car racing and hill climbs.