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Even with lots of work still do be done this list have reached a state
where it must be considered one of the most complete and accurate ever assembled on
the subject. This has only been possible due to the tremendous help from people
all over the world, each of them experts of their local drivers and events.
Short biographies of drivers with BLUE background, will come up in due time.
If you have any information about any driver with GREEN background, please
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Eric Hagfält (S) |
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* 18 May 1899
† 5 Oct 1932. |
Söderby-Karl, near Norrtälje
Söderby-Karl, near Norrtälje |
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Entered a De Soto at the 1932 Swedish Winter GP but was a non starter.
Died of tubercolosis the same year.
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1932: DNA Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
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Major Frank Bernard Halford (GB) |
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* 7 May 1894
† 16 Apr 1955 |
Nottingham
Northwood, Middlesex |
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Engineer and aircraft engine designer. At the beginning of WW1 he joined the Royal Flying Corps where he fought at the front before being recalled
to engineering duties. He developed the Beardmore Halford Pullinger (DH4), after the war he designed the ADC Cirrus engine 1924 (Tiger Moth etc),
the well known Havilland Gipsy light aircraft engine 1926 and during WW2 the Napier Sabre H-24 (Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest) and finally worked
on what would be the Havilland Goblin jet engine. He raced motor cycles in 1922 and designed his own AM Halford Special racing car which he raced in 1925-26.
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1926: DNF British GP /
10 JCC 200
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Frank Leslie Hallam (GB) |
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* 11 Jan 1899
† 13 May 1937 |
Aston, Birmingham
Castle Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales |
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Birmingham Alvis dealer.
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1933: 5 Empire Trophy
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Helge Hallman (FIN) |
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* 9 Jul 1906
† 14 Feb 2001? |
Kokkola (Gamlakarleby)
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Freight manager from NW Finland. Hallman started racing in 1931 when friends convinced
him to borrow a Chrysler. Hallman won first time out and soon got interested enough to rebuild a Ford as a racing car.
Hallman's silent and reserved personality made him a calm and calculationg rather than spectacular
driver and he had some success in standard car racing in Northern countries and Estonia in the mid 1930s.
He then retired from racing but after the war he decided to make a comeback. The old Ford that had been standing in
a shed for eight years was rebuilt with a truck engine and with the old car Hallman won the 1947 Finnish GP.
He also took part in the 1948 & 1949 Finnish GPs but retired both times.
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1936: DNF Finnish GP
1937: 7 Finnish GP /
4 Kalastajatorpanajo
1939: DNA Finnish GP
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David Alan Hampshire (GB) |
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* 29 Dec 1917
† 25 Aug 1990 |
Mickleover, Derby, Derbyshire
Newton Solney, Derbyshire |
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Company director. He went to Cambridge University around 1936, his supercharged MG Midget PB being stored at his friend Arthur Hyde's garage in nearby
Great Chesterford. For a additional sum of £5 the MG was soon changed to a 1929 1.5 litre Alfa Romeo and in 1937 the Alfa was changed for a 1926 T35 Bugatti.
After having suffered one Britsih winter in the open car, Hampshire decided to turn it into race trim. He helped out in Hyde's garage in exchange for facilities and parts.
A 1933 Chevrolet saloon was purchased for £12 10s as daily transport and tow car.
He did a deal with Hyde whereby each would look after the garage at the weekend on different dates so that the other could race.
Hampshire first race was in 1938 at Brooklands in a sprint held by the Westminster School Sports Car Club which he won.
In the same year he competed at Prescott, Lewes Time Trials, Syston Park and Donington Park.
Getting serious about racing Hampshire bought an ex-Austin Dobson Maserati 6CL, raced only 5 or 6 times and then converted to 1100cc, for £365.
Reg Parnell helped look after the car.
Hampshire raced the Maserati at Donington Park and the Sydenham Trophy, Crystal Palace, retiring both times firstly with ignition and finally with a melted piston due to the excessively
high compression which had not been allowed for in the conversion. Fortunately, all the parts for converting it back to 1.5 litre came with the car and it was done. Hampshire then raced it at
Brooklands and again at Donington Park before the war broke out.
After the war Hampshire won at Gransden Lodge and was first in the Voiturette class at Shelsley Walsh with the Maserati. In 1946 he acquired the ex-Dick Seaman Delage 158L and raced it at
Grand Prix des Nations, Albi. His post war career includes a 4th position at the 1949 British GP with an ERA, a F1 win at the 1950 Nottingham Trophy, a 7th position at the 1951 Le Mans
with an Aston Martin and two F1 World Championship starts for Scuderia Ambrosiana: 1950 British GP (9th) & French GP (DNF).
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1939: DNF Nuffield Trophy (Voiturette)
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Walter Leslie "Wal" Handley (GB) |
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* 5 Apr 1902
† 15 Nov 1941 |
Aston, Birmingham
Kirkbampton, Cumberland |
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Walter Handley was was a well-known motor cyclist
who won the Senior Manx TT in 1930. Handley's Corner on the Manx TT circuit was named after him.
He was also involved with car racing, driving Rileys. Entered the 1934 & 1935 Mannin Beg.
He had a bad crash at hhe 1936 Empire Trophy after taking over Dixon's third placed Riley.
He was killed, serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary, Kirkbampton, Cumberland 1941.
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1933: DNA Mannin Moar
1934: DNF Mannin Beg (Voturette)
1935: NC* Donington GP
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Arno Hänsel (D) |
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"Wannabe" race driver who entered a Bugatti T30 for the German GP 1926. He destroyed his engine already during Friday’s practice.
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1926: DNS German GP (2000cc)
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Jens Henning Fisker "Morian" Hansen (DK) |
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* 10 Jan 1905
† 21 Feb 1995 |
Fredrikssund
Denmark |
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Speedway rider.
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1933: DNF Swedish Summer GP
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Beris Harcourt-Wood (GB) |
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* 18 May 1902
† 16 Jul 1968 |
Offchurch, Warwickshire
Garth, Breconshire, Wales |
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One of the lesser known of the "Bentley Boys". His best results includes a 4th place at Phoenix Park 1929 and
6th in the 1929 Brooklands 12 Hour race with a Riley the same year. He was meant to race a Blower-Bentley with Jack Dunfee
at the 1930 Le Mans 24h but the Dorothy Paget team suffered overheating and had only time to change the engines of two of their three cars
to runing pure-benzol so Harcourt-Wood was a non-starter.
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1926: DNF JCC 200 (1100cc)
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Max Hardegg (Maximilian Graf zu Hardegg von Settenberg) (A) |
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* 26 Nov 1906
† 28 Jun 1931 |
Hardek, Niederösterreich
Baden Baden |
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Fatal crash at the Baden Baden hill climb on the Schwarzwaldhochstraße.
Hardegg lost control of his Bugatti T37A and the car fell down a slope, rolling over several times.
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1930: 1 Czech (Voiturette)
1931: 2 Lwow GP
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William Edmund "Bill" Harker (GB) |
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* 8 May 1906
† 9 Sep 1986 |
Tynemouth, Northumberland
Derby |
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"Edmond was a test driver for Rolls Royce in Derby England when I joined them as an Engineering Apprentice in 1937. I remember him walking through the
Experimental Shop with a red cravate and fishing flies hooked into his jacket. He made a racing "special" with 2 Austin 7 engines linked to form a V8
and later used 2 MG (R ?) engines. I had the pleasure of push starting one of them at the Donington track on one of his test outings but cannot honestly
remember any details. As a car mad 18 year old I thought he was God". His brother was a test pilot with RR at Hucknall, Nottingham."
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1933: DNA Mannin Moar
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Hans Hugo Hartmann (D) |
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* 8 Feb 1916
† Feb 1991 |
Dortmund
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His father was head of the salesmen in the Mercedes-Benz branch.
Hartmann was noticed in 1935, driving off-road races with a Mercedes-Benz.
He was works Mercedes-Benz reserve driver 1939. Borgward factory driver in 1952-53.
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1937: DNS German GP
1939: 8 Eifel GP /
DNS French GP /
DNS German GP /
6 Swiss GP
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Major Cyril Maurice Harvey (GB) |
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* 19 Feb 1895
† 2 Aug 1936
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Clapham, London
St Keverne, Cornwall |
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After taking part in the first world war Harway joined Alvis as a sales representative and works driver racing for the team at Brooklands, Le Mans and the TT Races.
He was the winner of the 1923 JCC 200 Mile Race at Brooklands and with Harold Purdy he finished 6th at the 1928 Le Mans 24h Race. A serious accident in 1932 ended his racing career.
He took his own life whilst camping at Trevenwith Farm, St.Keverne, Cornwall in 1936.
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1926: DNA British GP /
DNF JCC 200
1927: DNS British GP /
DNF JCC 200
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Rudolf Hasse (D) |
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* 30 May 1906
† 12 Aug 1942
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Mittweida, Sachsen
Makiivka, Ukraine |
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At 1.87 meters, this unpretentious and humble grand prix driver was the tallest of all the German drivers
during the 30s.
In 1926, he started racing Wanderer motor cycles. After three years he changed
over to four wheels where he became a successful long distance driver. He had over thirty wins and gold medals. In
1932 he changed to Adler sports cars and was able to sit behind the wheel in a 5000 km long distance race
without being relieved. He was also captain at the local fire brigade.
Hasse was a great talent who never drove fastest laps but instead could
be relied upon bringing the car home. Hasse always drove with a white cap and since he was a bespectacled driver,
he was unable to wear the small racing goggles. Instead he wore large goggles with a black rubber frame to accommodate
his glasses within.
For 1936 he was signed as junior driver for Auto Union and went on to race for the team as regular until the war.
Especially in 1937 he had several good results including his only GP victory at the 1937 Belgian GP. He was also lucky
to escape a spectacular crash at the Monaco tunnel that same year with only a bleeding cut under his chin, a contusion
of the shoulder and a broken foot, but he had to spend a six-week pause in plaster.
Totally Hasse took part in 12 Grandes Épreuves plus an additional eight major GPs.
At the start of WW2 he volunteered and since he was not accepted right away, he joined the Truppenbetreuung
army welfare. In 1940 he was drafted and due to his technical knowledge, he became involved with the service of the
front vehicles. He was well liked and brave but in August 1942 he died of a malicious sickness (shigellosis)
in a military hospital at the Russian front at an age of 36.
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1936: DNS Eifel GP /
4 German GP /
5* Swiss GP /
DNF* Italian GP
1937: 8 Tripoli GP /
3 AVUS GP /
4 Eifel GP /
4 Milan GP /
1 Belgian GP /
5 German GP /
DNF Monaco GP /
9* Italian GP /
DNS Czech GP /
5 Donington GP
1938: DNF French GP /
DNF German GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Donington GP
1939: 5 Eifel GP /
2 Belgian GP /
DNS French GP /
DNF German GP /
DNF Swiss GP
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Wallace Douglas Hawkes (GB) |
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* 11 Sep 1893
† 2 Aug 1974 |
Montpelier, Bristol
Athens, Greece |
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1926: DNF JCC 200 /
DNF GP du Salon
1927: DNF Ouverture GP
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Mrs Gwenda Hawkes - SEE: Mrs Gwenda Stewart
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Istvan Hayczar (H) |
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The Hungarian Istvan Hayczar from Vienna sporadically drove Walter Wustrow's T35C.
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1933: DNF (2000cc) La Baule GP
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Henry Edward "Ron" Hazlehurst (GB) |
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* 12 Mar 1894
† 12 Sep 1975 |
Beverley, Yorkshire
Pimlico, London |
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1926: DNA JCC 200 (1100cc)
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Roland Stuart Scott Hebeler (GB) |
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* 5 Nov 1907
† 19 Jan 1985 |
Ripley, Surrey
West Horsley, Surrey |
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1932: 6 (heat) Empire Trophy
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Franz Heim (D) |
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* 4 Jul 1882
† 6 Jan 1926 |
Wiesbaden
Mannheim |
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Raced Benz and Lorraine-Dietrich before WW1. He was passenger and mechanic of Hémery, Hanriot and Barney Oldfield in the Blitzen Benz.
From 1910 he raced for Benz winning some races.
After WW1 he founded the Badische Automobilfabrik Heim & Co together with Arthur Henney. When the company collapsed he took his life.
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1922: DNF Italian GP
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Wilhelm Heine (D) |
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* ? - † 29 Sep 1929
Practicing for the 1926 German GP at AVUS Heine crashed with Luigi Platé's Chiribiri. Platé's riding mechanic Carlo Cattaneo died
and Heine suffered serious injuries. After a three-year long break Heine returned to motor sport at the Nürburgring practicing
for the 1929 ADAC Langstreckenfahrt driving a BMW-Dixi. Heine's car overturned backwards twice on concecutive laps on the 27% steep "Steilstrecke"
that bypassed the Karussell section, the second crash proved fatal.
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1926: DNS German GP
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Antoni Heller ( ) |
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1930: DNF Lwow GP
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Victor Théodore Eugène Hémery (F) |
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* 18 Nov 1876
† 8 sep 1950 |
Sillé-le-Guillaume
Le Mans |
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1922: DNF French GP /
DNA Italian GP
1923: DNF French GP
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Gordon Vinton Hendy (GB) |
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* 1 Aug 1904
† 9 Jul 1964 |
Southampton
Southampton |
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Part of a family that owns a major garage and Ford dealer company.
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1926: 16 JCC 200 (750cc)
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Ernst Jakob Henne (D) |
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* 22 Feb 1904
† 23 May 2005 |
Weiler im Allgäu
Gran Canaria |
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Champion motor cycle rider, who made 76 speed records including 7 total world records with a BMW.
Early orphaned, Henne started working as a car and motor bike mechanic in 1919. He started racing motor cycles
in 1923 finishing third in his first race. He made his international debut at Monza in 1925, finishing 6th in
the 350cc class. For the next year he signed on as works BMW driver, winning his first race at the "Karlsruher
Wildparkrennen" and he became German champion the same year after winning at the Eifelrennen.
He took part in the winning team in the 1933, 1934 & 1935 six day races.
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1929 - 215.182 km/h (750cc)
1930 - 221.528 km/h (750cc)
1932 - 244.399 km/h (750cc)
1034 - 246.069 km/h (750cc)
1935 - 256.046 km/h (750cc)
1936 - 272.006 km/h (500cc)
1937 - 279.503 km/h (500cc)
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Henne was Mercedes-Benz' reserve driver for the 1934 season. He had a heavy crash at Nürburgring during pre season testing.
At Pescara he became a close eyewitness to Moll's fatal crash. In October Henne had a try at the car speed record at
Gyon but the Mercedes car lost its canopy at high speed. After the disappointing GP season Henne turned to sports
cars instead, taking the new BMW 328 to victory at the 1936 Eifelrennen and winning at Chimay and Bucharest the next year.
Henne retired from racing in 1938. After the war he started a Mercedes garage in Munich and developed it to become
one of the largest Mercedes dealers in Germany. Henne lived on in retirement in the Canary Islands, a considerable part
of his fortune put into a charity fund.
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1934: DNS French GP /
DNS German GP /
6 Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Italian GP /
DNS Spanish GP /
6* Czech GP
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Arthur "Art" Hugo Henney (D) |
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* 3 jun 1881
† 5 feb 1958 |
Hachenburg, Westerwald
Wiesbaden |
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Born into a wealthy family Henney became a successful businessman and motorsport pioneer. He started racing in 1910 in the Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt with a Benz.
A few weeks later he took part in the 3,000-kilometer Emperor Nicholas Drive from St. Petersburg via Moscow and Kiev back to St. Petersburg, finishing in fifth place.
However, his career was then interupted as during a joyride, he overturned his car and suffered serious injuries while two of his passengers died.
He did not race again until 1912.
After WW1 he founded the Badische Automobilfabrik Heim & Co together with Franz Heim.
He had a big accident at the 1922 AVUS Rennen with a Heim car. The car was destroyed and Henney injured.
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1922: DNA Italian GP
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Carel/Charles Henny - SEE: Henny "de Joncy"
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Gérard Victor Julie Marie Anne Joseph Herbaux (F) |
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* 14 Jan 1907
† 12 Mar 1980 |
Tourcoing, Nord, Hauts-de-France
Roubaix, Nord, Hauts-de-France |
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Lived in Neuville-en-Ferrain, Hauts-de-France, near Lille. His father owned a carpet-making factory.
Bought Bugatti T37 (#37385) 10th March 1931 and raced it in five events.
Took part in the 1933 Monte-Carlo rally with a Peugeot finishing 71th.
Sold the Bugatti 7th November 1933 when he got married .
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1931: DSQ Picardie GP (Sports)
1932: 2 Circuit de l'Aisne (1500cc) /
2 Frontières GP (1500cc) /
4 Picardie GP (Voiturette) /
6 Lorraine GP (Voiturette)
1933: DNA Frontières GP
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Edmond "Eddie" Hertzberger (NL) |
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* 17 Oct 1904
† 2 May 1993 |
Rotterdam,
Lugano, Switzerland |
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Eddie Hertzberger, a wealthy industrialist (confection clothing), was one of those all-round sportsmen that appered in the Golden Era.
In the twenties he did some boxing, he did a lot of sailing and skiing throughout his life, but motor racing was his real
love. He could afford himself some very fancy cars, like the MG Magnette K3, a Bentley 4,5 litre and a Aston Martin. As a jew
he restricted his racing to England, France, Italy and Belgium, (racing in the Netherlands was virtually non-existant)
At Monthléry he managed to break some speed records in his K3. He also started in the Mille Miglia and at Le Mans.
He quit racing in 1938 after getting married, although he made a surprise appearance at Zandvoort in 1953.
In WWII he escaped the Netherlands through Belgium and France to Switzerland, where he stayed for more than a year. Later he went through Vichy France again, to reach Spain. In Madrid he became a member of the intelligence service of the Dutch government, which was based in London during WWII. His wife, Lore Hertzberger, wrote a book about their hazardous journeys, which is (I think) still available in German and was recently reprinted in Dutch.
After WWII he rebuild his factory and lived both in the Netherlands and New York. Later he moved to Switzerland,
where he died in 1993.
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1935: 4 Orleans (Voiturette) /
7 Dieppe (Voiturette) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette)
1936: 1 Frontières GP
1937: 1 Frontières (Voiturette) /
11 Swiss GP (Voiturette)
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Roy Oliver Hesketh (ZA) |
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* 20 Mar 1915
† 19 Sep 1944 |
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Great Bitter Lake, Egypt |
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Prominent South African racing personality from Natal,
who was a successful motorcycle racer in 1930's.
Won the Durban - Johannesburg intercity race in 1935 and was 2nd in 1936.
Competed in MGs in the South African races in the late 30s.
He was killed in Egypt during WW2 while acting as a flying instructor (Lieutenant), serving in the South African Airforce.
His Martin Marauder Mk III (B-26G) of the No. 70 Operation Training Unit collided with another Marauder over Kufur Nigm, and crashed into the Great Bitter Lake.
All four crew of his plane succumbed while the other plane landed safely.
The Roy Hesketh Circuit near Pietermaritzburg was named after him.
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1937: 2 Rand GP (handicap)
1939: 4 South African GP (Voiturette) /
4 Grosvenor (Voiturette)
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Huldreich Heusser (CH) |
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* 1 Nov 1889
† 20 Aug 1928 |
Zürich
Müncheberg, Germany |
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Swiss driver from Zürich who lived in Kleinschmalkalden, Germany. Successful hill climb racer racing Steyr cars in the early 1920s with a lot of victories.
Crashed on 19 August 1928 at the Bukow Triangle race, Müncheberg, Germany. His Bugatti came a bit too far to the left on the sandy edge of
the road and he lost control. His car hit a road marker stone, scraped two tree trunks bordering the road and plowed into a third tree head on. The car was totally demolished.
Heusser's riding mechanic, Otto Feldmann, died immediately with fatal brain injury. Heusser had his left foot torn off and the toes of his right foot. In the nearby Müncheberg
Hospital Heusser's left leg had to be amputated below the knee as well as half of his right foot. The injured driver had severe concussion, a fractured skull, a crushed
thorax and one broken rib, injuries to which he succumbed the following morning.
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1926: DNF Eifel GP
1927: DNF Nürburgring Opening
1928: DNF Targa Florio /
DNF Coppa Messina /
DNF Coppa Etna
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Karl Rudolf Heydel (D) |
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* 22 Nov 1912
† 4 Feb 1936
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Leipzig
Monza, Italy |
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This promising young testdriver was selected as junior driver for Auto Union team for the 1936 season after
an error-free performance at the Nürburgring tests in November 1935 .
However, at the pre-season tests at Monza Heydel crashed the Auto Union which started to burn. Heydel's death was instant as his head was crushed.
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Otto Hieronimus (D/A) |
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* 6 Jul 1879
† 8 May 1922
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Köln
Graz, Austria |
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On 8 May 1922, practicing for the six-kilometer Riesberg hillclimb near graz, Hieronimus lost control of his six-cylinder Steyr and crashed fatally.
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1922: 1 (7) Targa Florio (3000cc)
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Elgar Psdka von Hillern-Flinsch (S) |
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* 13 Oct 1893
† 13 Jun 1977 |
Germany
Stockholm |
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Inspector for the Michelin company. Competed in races in Mexico and Canada before WW1.
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1931: ? Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
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Yngve Folking "Folke" Hjelm (S) |
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* 6 Mar 1899
† 26 Nov 1964 |
Borås, Västergötland
Borås, Västergötland |
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Holder of several hill climb records. Raced A Chevrolet in the 1931 and 1932 Swedish Winter GP.
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1931: DNF Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
1932: DNF Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
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Frantisek Holesak (A/CS) |
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1934: DNF Czech GP
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Stanisław Hołuj (PL) |
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* 5 Apr 1899
† 29 Jun 1940 |
Myslenice
Krzeslawice, Poland |
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Stanisław was born in 1899, son of Jan and Maria Hołuj. At an age of 15 he joined "First Cadre Company" that later formed the core of the "Polish Legions"
that after the war became the backbone of the Polish Army. After having served 12 Infantry Regiment he returned home in 1922 to assist his father, who was the owner of the power plant,
and also worked in Cracow radio station. Becoming interested in motor sport he started of motorcycling with a Harley Davidson, eventually becoming Silesian speedway champion.
Turning to cars he took part in rallies, hillclimbs and races. Buying a Bugatti T37A he entered it in the 1931 and 1932 Lwow Grand Prix.
He married Anna Konder and had two children, Jan and Maria.
On 23 June 1940 Hołuj was arrested by the Germans for participating in the underground organization and was sent to Montelupich Prison. Six days later taken to Krzeslawice and was executed.
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1931: 3 Lwow GP
1932: 3 Lwow GP (Voiturette)
1933: DNF Lwow (Voiturette)
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Franz Hörner (D) |
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* 5 jun 1882
† 30 Apr 1944 |
Odenheim, near Bruchsal
Mannheim |
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1923: 5 European GP
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St. John Ratcliffe Stewart "Jock" Horsfall (GB) |
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* 31 Jul 1910
† 20 Aug 1949 |
Morningthorpe, Norfolk
Silverstone, Northamptonshire |
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Fatally crashed with an ERA at the 1949 International Trophy at Silverstone.
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1939: DNF* Nuffield Trophy (Voiturette) /
? Campbell Trophy
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Marcel "Marc" Léonce Horvilleur (F) |
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* 23 Aug 1914
† 10 Jul 1997 |
Boulogne-Billancourt
Paris |
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Began as a Bol d'Or specialist with the Amilcars of the Ours Martin team in the years 1935/39 winning the racing cars category in 1937. He also drove an old
8C-Alfa Romeo in 1938 at Le Mans and raced voiturettes in 1939, with good results. Active in the Résistance, he was arrested in 1943 and sent to the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was among the few survivors from that camp, and upon his return, he resumed the family business of cattle merchants.
His activity in the Résistance earned him several decorations and the Légion d'Honneur. He did not resume racing after the war.
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1939: 3 Picardie (Voiturette) /
2 Angouleme /
7 Albi (Voiturette) /
DNF Swiss GP (Voiturette)
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Emile Houp (F) |
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* 12 Feb 1895
† ?
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Cocheren, Moselle
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From Alsace, mechanic at Reinartz's Bugatti Agency at Liège.
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1934: DNA Frontières GP
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Francis Richard Henry Penn, Viscount Curzon, 5th Earl Howe (GB) |
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* 1 May 1884
† 26 Jul 1964
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Mayfair, London
Amersham, Buckinghamshire |
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Lord Howe did not take up racing seriously until he was 44 years old but he would then become one Britain's best known drivers.
Born in Mayfair, London into a famous British naval family, Richard served in the Royal Navy during the First World War including an assignment
on board the Battleship "HMS Queen Elizabeth" during the Dardanelles campaign.
Howe's first major race was the 1928 Irish TT: By 1930 he had bought Caracciola's old Mercedes SSK and in 1931 he raced an Alfa Romeo,
winning the Le Mans 24h race. He continued racing with a T51 Bugatti, a 1.5 litre Delage, MGs and Alfa Romeos until he bought a
ERA for the 1936 season. Later he joined the ERA works team. He was out for most of the 1937 season after a heavy crash at the
Campbell Trophy at Brooklands.
After the war Lord Howe continued to be involved in racing as a organizer and as the president of the British Racing Driver's Club.
Howe's cars were always meticously prepared and the driver stood out with his blue helmit and overalls. Highly patriotic,
Howe was forced to race foreign cars as no British cars were competitive in GP racing.
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1931: DNF Monaco GP /
12* French GP /
11 German GP /
1 Dieppe GP (Voiturette) /
6 Mountain
1932: 4 Monaco GP /
1 Empire Trophy (2000cc) /
1 AVUS (Voiturette) /
9* French GP /
3* Spa 10h (sports car) /
4 German GP (Voiturette) /
2 Dieppe GP (2000cc) /
7 Coppa Acerbo /
6 (heat) Monza GP
1933: DNF Monaco GP /
3 AVUS (Voiturette) /
1 Eifel (Voiturette) /
DNF French GP /
DNA Mannin Beg (Voiturette) /
4 Dieppe GP /
DNS Coppa Ciano (Voiturette 1100cc) /
DNF Nice GP /
5 Coppa Acerbo /
12 Italian GP /
5 (heat) Monza GP /
1 Donington Park Trophy
1934: 10 Monaco GP /
DNS Tripoli GP /
4 AVUS GP /
DNS AVUS (Voiturette) /
DNS Eifel (Voiturette) /
5 Marne GP /
7 Vichy GP /
3 Dieppe GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
7 Nice GP /
9 Swiss GP /
5 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
9 Italian GP /
3 Donington Trophy /
3 Mountain
1935: DNF Monaco GP /
DNA Tripoli GP /
2 Picardie GP /
DNSMarne GP /
2 Albi (Voiturette) /
12 Dieppe GP /
DNF Dieppe (Voiturette) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo /
10 Swiss GP /
3 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
2 Donington GP
1936: 5 Monaco (Voiturette) /
DNF Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
8 Eifel (Voiturette) /
3 Picardie (Voiturette) /
DNF Albi (Voiturette) /
4 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Swiss GP /
2 JCC 200 /
13 Vanderbilt Cup
1937: 3 Grosvenor GP (handicap) /
DNF Campbell Trophy /
DNA Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
DNF JCC 200 GP /
NC Donington GP
1938: 1 Grosvenor GP (handicap) /
DNA Cork (Voiturette) /
2 (heat)/DNF Picardie (Voiturette) /
4 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
3 JCC 200 (Voiturette + GP)
1939: 5 South African GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Grosvenor (Voiturette)
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Fritz Hückel (A) |
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* 22 Jun 1885
† 12 Jan 1973
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1925: 1 Targa Florio
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Cornelis Johnnes van Hulzen (NL) |
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* 1 Nov 1905
† 15 May 1940 |
Baarn, Utrecht
Héricourt-sur-Thérain, Oise, France |
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Van Hulzen was born in born at Baarn, the Netherlands. Starting off as a bus driver he also trained as military pilot (1925/26). He and his brother inherited a lot of money in 1928
and he bought a Bugatti T35 (#4490?) and
started his race career at Toul-Nancy. He got a job at the Bugatti factory first in the assembly department and then as a running-in driver.
He took part in minor events but he performed better in motorcycle dirt track racing than in car racing.
In March 1929 he bought a supercharged T35C (#4863) but later changed it to an ex-works T35B (#4933) from the factory, earlier owned by Jean Couiteas. Moved to Paris in 1930. At the 1930 San Sebastian GP
he crashed and suffered a fractured skull. However he recovered from the accident and returned to the Netherlands in 1935 where he founded a taxi and car rental company.
At the war he joined tha Dutch Air Force. On the day of the Dutch surrender, 12 Dutch Fokker planes from a flying school left for England, the pilots planning to join the RAF.
After a stopover at Héricourt-sur-Thérain Fokker S-IX Nr 46 with Sergeants Sitters and van Hulzen got an engine failure shortly after the start and crashed fatally.
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| (Info supplied by Michael Müller) |
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1929: 6 Dieppe GP
1930: 6 Dieppe GP /
DNF San Sebastian GP
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Thomas Kenneth "Tom" Humber (GB) |
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* 1 Oct 1905
† 1 Oct 1951 |
St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire
Wrea Green, Lancashire |
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1936: DNF Isle of Man (Voiturette)
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Josef Hummel (D) |
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Josef Hummel was born in approximately 1910 and came from Freiburg. He helped form the Süddeutsche Renngemeinschaft together with Herbert Wimmer and Ernst Troeltsch.
He competed mainly in German hillclimbs in the 1930s with an Amilcar, a BMW special and an Alfa Romeo. Postwar he raced a Veritas until 1950.
He established the magazine ’Das Auto’ in 1946 with Paul Pietsch and Ernst Troeltsch but left soon after to concentrate on his mineral oil business which he established in 1932.
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1934: ? Swiss GP (Voiturette)
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Arthur Brookes Hyde (GB) |
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* 4 Sep 1915
† 26 Mar 2005 |
Highbury, London
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
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Ran a garage business in Great Chesterford some 11 miles from Cambridge.
Raced as an independent in the years 1937 to 1939. He owned a Riley 9 and the 8CM-3000 Maserati.
He had modest success but, according to his son, a great deal of fun. With the Riley he won a Mountain Handicap at
Brooklands. Entered the Donington GP in 1937, soon after purchasing the Maserati, but felt that the discrepancy between
his speeds and those of the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Unions was likely to be dangerous so he did not start. As George Monkhouse said:
"Very sporting but quite unneccessary."
In 1938 he went to the German GP where he crashed badly after 14 laps.
He was lucky to survive but continued to race in 1939. He was third in the 1939 British Empire Trophy at Donington, won by Tony Rolt,
He did not resume racing after the war and sold the cars.
It is believed that the Maserati was bought by Cholmondley Tapper.
A. B. Hyde moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where he died in 2005.
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1937: DNS Donington GP
1938: 3 Campbell Trophy /
DNF German GP /
DNS JCC 200 (Voiturette + GP)
1939: 4 Brooklands Road Championship /
DNA Campbell Trophy
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