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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
contact me!
Ulrich Maag (CH) |
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* 23 Jul 1910
† 11 Aug 1934
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Zürich
Parma |
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Ulrich Maag was born in Zürich to a wealthy and wellknown family. After school he trained as a car mechanic and opened his own business at the age of 21 in Zürich.
Originally, he wanted to be a motorcycle racer, but then did the same as his brother, Rudolf Maag, who at that time was involved in car racing, but less talented than Ulrich.
He started the first races in 1932 with an MG. The season included class victories at Develier - Les Rangiers and Col du Bruch and he took part in the Klausenrennen with a Bugatti T35A possibly on loan.
He then bought a T35C (#4830) from Bugatti dealer Dr. Josef Karrer and raced it until 1934.
In 1933 he successfully took part in numerous hill climb races, which earned him the title of Swiss champion at the end of the season.
On 12 January 1934 he signed an 100,000 Lire order for a Maserati 8C 3000cc to be delivered 15 May. However, this could not be delivered in time, so he took part in the first events with a Maserati 4C 1500cc factory car.
At the first two major 1934 races however he raced an Alfa Romeo "Monza". He finished 6th in the German Grand Prix. After the race however he was
disqualified for having removed parts from the car before the weight-in.
Ulrich died in a crash with a lorry at Via Emilia, San Pancrazio near Parma, on his way to Coppa Abruzzo, which he was to race together with Hans Rüesch.
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1934: DNA Bordino GP /
6 Eifel GP /
DSQ German GP
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MacCarthy - SEE: "McCarthy"
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Jean Armand Mâchât "J.A.M." (F) |
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* 9 Jun 1907
† 26 Sep 1997 |
Rochefort, Charente Maritime
Meudon, Île-de-France |
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1935: DNF Orleans (Voiturette)
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MacEvoy - SEE: "McEvoy"
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Sir Alasdair Workman MacRobert (2nd Baronet) (GB) |
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* 11 Jul 1912
† 1 Jun 1938 |
Douneside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Hyde, Bedfordshire |
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Son of a self-made millionaire.
Died in Hyde 1938 in a fatal crash when piloting an airplane. His two brothers also died flying planes during the war.
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1936: DNA Eifel (Voiturette) /
DNC* JCC 200 (Voiturette)
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Norbert Mahé (F) |
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* 12 Jul 1903
† 27 Oct 1986 |
Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Bretagne
Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands |
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Raced a Bugatti T44 at Le Mans 24h 1934 and a Talbot in 1939. Also tookpart in the 1949-53 Le Mans 24h.
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1933: DNF Picardie (Voiturette)
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Antonio Maino (I) |
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From Gallarate, near Milano. Owned the Mercedes Benz SSK, chassis #36038, engine "#77644 with Touring body, later rebodied by Count Trossi, who purchased it in 1933.
A famous, still-existent car.
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1931: DNS Italian GP
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Manacorda - SEE: Simonotti Manacorda
Natale Manenti (I) |
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From Milan.
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1926: DNA Milan GP
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Dennis Kenneth Mansell (GB) |
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* 17 Mar 1909
† 20 Mar 1984 |
Sparkhill, Birmingham
Solihull, West Midlands |
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Motor cycle racer. Son of the managing director of he Norton concern.
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1933: 2 Mannin Beg (Voiturette)
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Comte de Marcellus, Marie Cyprie Edmond de Martin du Tyrac (F) |
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* 18 Aug 1900
† 9 Feb 1955 |
Gironde sur Dropt, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
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Born in the castle "Château de Beauséjour" in Gironde.
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1928: 6 (heat) Grand Prix Bugatti
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Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox "Freddie March" 9th Earl of March (GB) |
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* 5 Feb 1904
† 2 Nov 1989 |
Marylebone, London
Chichester, West Sussex |
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Later 9th Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
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1932: 1 Empire Trophy (Cyclecar)
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Onesimo Marchisio (I) |
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* 20 Jul 1892
† 10 Aug 1925
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Turin
Pietraporzio, Cuneo |
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On 9 August 1924 driving a Diatto at the Cuneo-Colle della Maddalena hill climb he lost control in a curve 48 km from the start.
The car went in a ditch, and hit a pole where his riding mechanic Mario Maladora was thrown from the car, escaping with minor injuries.
The car then rolled down an embankment with Marchisio inside who suffered severe chest injuries.
No one saw the crash and rescue only arrived after the end of the competition. He died of his injuries the following day.
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1924: DNF European GP
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Captain Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz (GB) |
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* 17 Jan 1897
† 6 Nov 1988 |
Margam, Glamorgan, Wales
Asterby, Lincolnshire |
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Born in Wales to a Swiss family, he started as an apprentice to Siddeley-Deasy car company in Coventry,
In the First World War he joined Royal Flying Corps, then flying F.K.8 for the 35 Squadron RAF (reconnaissance) during the Battle of Cambrai 1917.
Invalided out in 1918 with the rank of Captain. He then entered the motor industry, building some 1200 Marseal cars in a factory in Coventry between 1920 and 1925.
After that company failed he started DMK Marendaz Ltd in 1926 building cars in London to 1932 while also racing at Brooklands with his own cars.
The production continued in Maidenhead from 1932 to 1936. About 120 cars were made in total. He then ran a flying school at Bedford and set up a factory to build biplanes
but these never reached production.
He both won and was placed in many events from 1923 up to the early thirties racing his own car as well as with Amilcar and Graham-Paige. He also broke several speed records
including the world 24 hour record at the Monthlery track. In 1929-30 he broke the Class B 200-mile standing start racord (three times) and 200-kilometre standing start
record (twice) at Brooklands with a Graham-Paige.
As a supporter of Oswald Mosley he was temporary jailed in 1940.
After the war he emigrated to South Africa where he uncusesfully tried to start a tractor factory. He returned to England in 1972 and lived at Asterby, Lincolnshire until his death in 1988.
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1926: DNF JCC 200
1927: DNA Boulogne GP /
DNF JCC 200
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Emanuele de Maria (I) |
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Sicilian driver from Ragusa, active in the small capacity classes.
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1932: DNF Targa Florio
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Ettore Mariano (I) |
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Amateur driver and barrister from Cuneo.
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1935: DNF (heat) Turin GP
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Apollonio Marini (I) |
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From Viterbo, Lazio. Raced Lancias and OMs.
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1931: DNA Coppa Ciano
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"de Maris" (André "Andy" Embiricos) (GR) |
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† 23 May 1941 |
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Cousin to Nicholas Embiricos.
Died off the Crete Island during a naval battle.
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1938: DNA Pau GP
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"Marko" (Edgard Markiewicz) (CH?) |
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Swiss resident with unknown nationality. Owned and raced in 1933 an ex Ecurie Braillard Bugatti T35C (#4936).
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1926: DNF Provence GP (heat)
1931: DNA German GP (1100cc)
1933: DNF Belgian GP /
DNF Czech GP
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Aimé Martin - SEE: Aimé-Martin
Charles Martin (F) |
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Not to be confused with the Welsh Charles Martin. This Charles Martin was French and began his career at Bignan. Amilcar recruited him at the end of 1925 as a works driver before letting him go during 1928 due
to the cutbacks in the racing programme. It seems that Martin left the motor industry with his departure from Amilcar.
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1927: DNS Provence GP /
1c/6 San Sebastian GP (1100cc) /
DNF Boulogne GP (1100cc) /
3c/4 JCC 200 (1100cc)
1928: DNF Antibes GP /
DNF Rome GP
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Clément-Auguste Martin (F) |
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* 18 May 1902
† 25 Jan 1991 |
Paris
Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France |
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C-A Martin was the agent for Amilcar at La Garenne, Paris, France in the 1920s.
When Amilcar closed their racing department in 1929, he acquired
most of the material together with seven cars of the CO and CO déporté
models. He ran the Equipe Martin-Amilcar from 1930 to 1934, using 4
cylinder engines instead of the more complicated 6 cylinder ones. He
switched to SIMCA in 1935.
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1934: DNF Albi GP
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Oreste de Martis (I) |
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From Rome. Active amateur driver in a small Fiat, purchased the ex-Maggi Maserati T26R chassis/engine 28 in 1930, racing at the Coppa Acerbo with it. This was probably too big a jump, since he
sold the car immediately afterwards and disappeared from the race scene.
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1930: DNA Coppa Ciano /
DNF Coppa Acerbo
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Alfieri Maserati (I) |
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* 23 Sep 1887
† 3 Mar 1932 |
Voghera
Bologna |
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Alfieri Maserati was one of six sons to a locomotive driver, five of which were technically interested. In 1903 Alfieri started working for Isotta Fraschini in Milan as testers on his
older brother Carlo's recommendation. 1908 Alfieri was chosen to drive a works Isotta at the GP des voitures att Dieppe, finishing fourteenth. Alfieri went to Argentine to at the Buenos
Aires factory for Isotta Fraschini, returning to Italy in 1914 where he founded the Societa Anonima Officine Alfieri Maserati workshop. During the war Alfieri built Aero engines
for Isotta. He also designed spare plugs to be manufactured in his own workshop. After the war a large spare plug production plant was set up in Bologna.
After the war Alfieri returned to racing winning the 1922 Mugello Circuit in a Isotta-Fraschini.
He also was victorious at the 1921, 1922, 1923 Susa-Moncenisio, 1922, & 1923 Aosta-Gran San Bernardino and 1923 Bologna-Rocca di Roffeno hillclimbes.
He was head mechanic for Diatto from 1922 until 1926 and when Diatto retired from racing due to financial trouble he with his brothers developed the first Maserati car based on the Diatto.
At the 1927 Coppa Messina Alfieri crashed on the first lap in the dust raised by two cars he was trying to pass. His car overturned and he was taken to hospital seriously injured.
He was operated for many hours and one kidney was removed. Alfieri never completely recovered from his crash and when his health detoriated in 1932 Alfieri died from complications
after surgery on the remaining kidney,
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1921: 4 Mugello Circuit /
4 GP Gentlemen
1922: 1 Mugello Circuit /
DNF Italian GP /
1 (3) Autumn GP (3000cc) /
DNF Coppa Florio
1923: DNF Targa Florio /
2 Cremona Circuit /
DNF Mugello Circuit
1924: 12 Targa Florio (3000cc) /
DNA Cremona Circuit (2000cc) /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF San Sebastian GP
1925: DNS Italian GP
1926: 1 Targa Florio (1500cc) /
DNA Savio Circuit (2000cc) /
DNF Coppa Perugina (1500cc) /
DNF Garda Circuit (1500cc)
1927: 1c/3 Tripoli GP (1500cc) /
3 Targa Florio /
DNF Coppa Messina (1500cc) /
DNA Savio Circuit /
5c*/8 Garda Circuit (1500cc)
1929: DNA Pozzo Circuit /
6 Monza GP
1930: 4 Monza (1100cc)
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Massacurati - SEE: Mazzacurati
Emilio Materassi (I) |
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* 1 Nov 1894
† 9 Sep 1928 |
Borgo San Lorenzo, Firenze (Florence)
Monza, Milano |
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Emilio Materassi was born 1894 in Borge San Lorenzo near Florence. He started working in his father's shop, a trader of rope and wine, thereafter he worked as a bicycle mechanic and
next moved to motorcycles and cars.
In 1919 Materassi worked as a bus driver and moved to Florence where he met the most popular Italian race drivers. With their help and thanks to his mechanical skills Materassi
began his racing career at the 1919 Coppa Consuma with an Isotta Fraschini. Due to the poor economic conditions after the war, he was unable to enter other races so he drove his bus at high
speed along the winding roads near Mugello which resulted in him getting fired.
In 1921 Materassi was hired by Itala. In 1922 Materassi opened his own garage in addition to the Itala dealership for Florence. In 1924 Materassi raced his Itala, winning at
Perugia circuit the Coppa della Consuma and the Coppa della Collina Pistoiese hill climbs. In 1925 he went on winning at Mugello, Savio and Montenero and in 1926 at Montenero, all with
his Itala. After also racing for Maserati he joined the Bugatti works team in 1927 winning the Tripoli GP, the Targa Florio, the Bologna Circuit and the San Sebastian GP and Coppa
Montenero making him the 1927 Italian Champion. He also won the Coppa de Perugina with his Itala.
When Talbot retired from racing Materassi took over their race team renaming it Scuderia Materassi and he also bought two Bugattis.
At the European Grand Prix at Monza Materassi's Talbot left the track at the main straight at about 200 km/h killing 23 spectators plus the driver and severely injuring 35 others
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Also see Obituary |
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1921: DNF GP Gentlemen
1922: 8 Mugello Circuit /
DNF Coppa Montenero (2500cc)
1923: DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF Coppa Montenero (3000cc)
1924: 4 Mugello Circuit
1925: 2 Rome GP (3000cc) /
1 Savio Circuit /
2 Coppa Perugina /
1 Mugello Circuit /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
1 Coppa Montenero /
DNF Italian GP
1926: DNF Rome GP /
4 Targa Florio /
DNF Coppa Vinci (1500cc) /
DNA Savio Circuit /
1 Coppa Perugina /
1 Coppa del Marchese Ginori /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
1 Coppa Montenero /
DNF Italian GP /
DNF Milan GP (1100cc)
1927: 1 Tripoli GP /
1 Targa Florio /
DNF Coppa Messina /
DNA Savio Circuit /
1 Coppa Perugina /
DNF Rome GP /
1 Bologna Circuit /
1 San Sebastian GP /
DNF Spanish GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
1 Coppa Montenero (2000cc) /
DNF Milan GP /
DNA European GP /
5 British GP /
DNS French GP
1928: DNS Tripoli GP /
DNA Pozzo Circuit /
4 Alessandria GP /
DNF Targa Florio /
1 Mugello Circuit /
3 Rome GP /
3 Cremona Circuit /
DNF/2* Coppa Acerbo /
1 Coppa Montenero /
DNF European GP
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Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie "TASO" Mathieson (GB) |
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* 25 Jul 1908
† 12 Oct 1991 |
Glasgow, Scotland
Vichy, France |
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Scotsman, son of a Glasgow industrialist. Begun racing in 1930, his entries were sporadic as he was involved in the family business until 1955.
After retiring fromracing he built up a huge racing photo archive and wrote books. Lived in Vichy with his wife, actress Mila Parely.
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1933: DNF Mannin Moar /
DNF Donington Park Trophy /
DNF Mountain
1938: 3 Frontières GP
1939: DNA Frontières GP
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Ernest Charles "Émile" Mathis (D/F) |
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* 15 Mar 1880
† 3 Aug 1956 |
Straßburg (Strasbourg), Germany
Geneva, Switzerland |
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1921: DNF French GP
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Henri James Matile (F) |
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* 20 Aug 1884
† 12 Mar 1963 |
Châlons-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire
Nantes, Loire-Atlantiques |
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Car dealer and garage ovner from Nantes.
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1933: 13 (2000cc) La Baule GP
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"Matra" (Yves "Yves-Marie" Martin) (F) |
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* 28 Aug 1911
† 12 May 1984 |
Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère
Brest, Finistère |
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1938: DNF Pau GP /
DNA La Baule (Voiturette)
1939: DNF French GP
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Aldobrando Antici Mattei - SEE: Aldobrando Antici Mattei
Pierre André Matussière - SEE: "Foc"
Rex Mays (USA) |
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* 10 Mar 1913
† 6 Nov 1949
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Del Mar, California |
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Not to be confused with Raymond Mays, Rex Mays was an American Indy driver.
He started his career racing midgets in California 1931 and entered his first Indy 500 in 1934 with a Duesenberg-Miller, finishing 9th.
In 1936 he won the Goshen dirt oval race with a Adams-Sparks. He got hand of the spare Alfa Romeo Scuderia Ferrari had brought to the 1936
Vanderbilt cup and entered it in the 1937 Vanderbilt cup and in the 1937 and 1938 Indy 500 races. In 1938 he raced Adams-Sparks.
Racing a Stewens-Winfield he became Indycar Champion 1940 and 1941 finishing 2nd at Indy 500 both years.
Victories included Springfield and Syracuse dirt tracks in 1940 and Milwakee and Syracuse dirt tracks in 1941.
After the war his career continued 1946 with wins at Langhorne , Indianapolis and Milwaukee dirt tracks in a Kurtis-Winfield.
Mays was killed in a dirt track race at Del Mar, California 1949 racing a Kurtis-Offenhauser.
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1937: 3 Vanderbilt Cup.
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Dr. Mario Mazzacurati (later: Massacurati) (I/ZA) |
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* 21 Oct 1903
† 17 Apr 1985 |
Piove di Sacco, Pádova (Padua)
Rome |
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Born in Pádova in Italy Mazzacurati took a degree in geology at the University of Bologna and thus became an
engineer and not a dentist as clamed by some source.
He was a DNF at the 1929 and 1930 Mille Miglia in a Bugatti Amadeo Bignami as co-driver. He also
retired from the 1929 Circuito di Bordino. Sometimes near 1930 he moved to South Africa for civil
engineering work including building Hout Bay Harbour and roads through country towns. Was also involved in
tin mining in Swaziland.
Sat up the "Eagle Racing Stable" in Cape Town circa 1935 and imported a number of racing cars to South Africa
- like Bugatti T35B & T35C, Alfa Romeo Monza and the Maserati 6C-34.
He bought a lot of ex-Nuvolari cars and it is rumoured that he indeed was a cousin of Nuvolari but not confirmed.
A god driver he made good results in local South African events including a victory at the the South African GP in 1936
and third places in 1937 and 1939.
Raced an semi-works supported Maserati 6CM in South Africa 1939. Used to drive under the pseudonym "Mario".
Despite being a National sporting hero as an Italian he was interned in South Africa during WW2 but
made a daring escape from the concentration camp.
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1926: DNS Rome GP /
DNA Coppa Peruginaa (1500cc) /
DNF Coppa Montenero (1500cc) /
DNF Garda Circuit (1500cc)
1928: DNA Alessandria GP
1929: DNF Alessandria GP /
DNF Pozzo Circuit
1930: DNF Coppa Ciano
1936: 1 South African GP (Handicap)
1939: 3 South African GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Grosvenor (Voiturette)
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Franco Mazzotti (I) |
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* 31 Dec 1904
† 14 Nov 1942 |
Rudiano, Brescia
Mediterrenean |
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One of the four founders of the Mille Miglia and responsible for the financing of the race. He was president of the Royal Automobile Club of Brescia and also the president of the Brescia football
team from 1926 to 1931. A keen aviator, he circumnavigated Africa in 1930 and attempted an unsuccessful speed record from Rome to Buenos Aires four years later.
He got lost in the Libyan desert in 1938 and was rescued by Italo Balbo, governor of the Italian colony. The died in 1942 when his Savoia-Marchetti SM75 was shot down by British fighters in the Messina Channel.
He received the honours Commendatore della Corona d’Italia and Cavaliere dei SS Maurizio e Lazzaro.
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1924: DNF Cremona Circuit (2000cc) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo (2000cc)
1925: 3 Rome GP (1500cc) /
DNA Mugello Circuit (1500cc) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo /
3 Coppa Montenero (2000cc) /
DNA Garda Circuit
1926: 4 Rome GP (2000cc) /
4 Coppa Montenero
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Frederick James "Freddy" McEvoy (AUS) |
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* 12 Feb 1907
† 7 Nov 1951 |
St Kilda, Victoria
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Among the rather sparkling characters that can be are found in the history of motor racing, Freddy McEvoy is
surely one that stands out.
Born in St Kilda 1907 i a wealthy farming and landowning family.
After the death of his father when Freddie was just six years old, his mother moved to Europe (St Moritz).
Freddie was educated at Stonyhurst Jesuit school in Northern England.
He took residence at the Rivieira, where the jet-set of the 1930s met. Apart from socialising and womanizing he was also a sports man,
and also took up motor racing. He took part at the 1935 Mille Miglia.
Then he joined the bobsleigh competition at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games where he,
racing for Britain, took a Bronze in the four man bobsled race and finished 4th in the two man bobsled race.
The same year he bought a Maserati 6CM and raced it in several events. When celebrity life returned to normal after the
war, McEvoy was also back. He died in 1951 at a cruise off the Moroccan coast, when the yacht he was on went down in a
gale.
McEvoy's life is told in Andreas Zielcke's book about Porfirio Rubirosa titled "Der letzte Playboy" ("The last Playboy") and also in "The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy" by Frank Walker.
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1936: DNF Monaco (Voiturette) /
4 Picardie (Voiturette) /
DNF Albi (Voiturette) /
DNA Deauville GP /
8 Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
4 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
7 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
6* Vanderbilt Cup
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Georg "Schorsch" Meier (D) |
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* 9 Nov 1910
† 19 Feb 1999 |
Mühldorf am Inn, Bayern
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Meier was born 1910 in Bavaria. After leaving school at an age of 14 he worked at a motorcycle repair shop. In 1929 Meier joined the Bavarian State Police and in 1932 he was transferred to
the motorcycle police section. Racing for the German Army motorcycle team BMW got interested in Meier and signed him on for the 1938 season. That year Meier became the 500 cc European motor cycle Champion.
He was given a test drive for Auto Union on the Nürburgring on 9 November 1938 and during the 1939 season Meier was junior driver for Auto Union while he also was under contract for BMW and
instructor with the Military Police. He was a non starter at Eifelrennen after the car broke down in practice. Instead Meier went to Isle of Man and won the motorcycle TT as first
foreign driver. At the Belgium GP Meier spun off trying to pass Mandirola. Walking back to the pits he was witness to Seaman's fatal crash 300 m away. Next he finished 2nd at the French GP
despite burning his hand during a pit stop fire. He then retired from the German GP.
He had a serious crash at the Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix at Malmö and spent seven months in hospital. This led to Meier being declared unfit for military service. He spent the war as
a motorcycle instructor for the German Military Police and as a driver for Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German military intelligence.
After the war Meier won the German 500 cc championship 1947-51 and 1953 driving BMW. He formed the BMW Veritas Team and won the German sports car championship in 1948. He became German
Sportsman of the Year in 1949. After the 1953 season Meier retired to concentrate on business. He had won some 150 races.
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1939: DNS Eifel GP /
DNF Belgian GP /
2 French GP /
DNF German GP
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Mendes - SEE: Soares Mendes
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Riccardo Menegardo (I) |
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* 3 Dec 1882
† 15 Dec 1969 |
S. Michele Extra, Verona
Valli del Pasubio, Vicenza |
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1929: DNF Pozzo Circuit
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Meo - SEE: De Meo
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Romeo Meoni (I) |
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O.M. driver from Prato, Toscana, near Firenze (Florence).
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1930: DNF Coppa Ciano
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Robin Marie Marcus Mere (GB) |
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* 21 Mar 1909
† 17 Jan 1967 |
Marylebone, London
Chiddingfold, Surrey |
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1933: DNF Mannin Beg (Voiturette)
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Gian Piero Meroni (I) |
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In July 1935 Meroni bought an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 spider #2311226 (Reg: 8412.CO). He crashed it during a test for the Como-Lieto Colle hillclimb, killing two mechanics and his brother Angelo.
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1936: DNA Milan (Voiturette) /
10 Modena (Voiturette)
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Otto Merz (D) |
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* 12 Jun 1889
† 18 May 1933 |
Cannstatt, Stuttgart
Berlin |
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Merz was one of the most colorful drivers that ever appeared in motor racing. Big and incredible strong he could amuse his fellow drivers by driving in
six-inch nails in a table with one stroke from his fist. At the 1929 Ulster TT he ripped off parts from his damaged Merceds with his bare hands.
Merz was born in Cannstatt. Apprenticed to Daimler, then chauffeur/riding mechanic for Willy Poege, the Saxonian industrialist and Pre-Kaiser-War racing driver,
then chauffeur of Austrian motor sport sponsor and brewer Theodor Dreher. At Sarajevo as chauffeur of Count Boos-Waldeck he became an eye witness
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination which touched off the First World War. It was Merz who carried the dying Archduke into a
a nearby house.Returning to Mercedes Otto Merz was outright winner of the 1924.
Klausenpass Hill Climb and the 1927 German Grand Prix at Nürburgring (sports cars). Had a fatal accident during practice for the 1933 AVUS Race in Berlin.
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1923: 1* Romanian touring race
1924: 2 Zbraslav-Jíloviště (hillclimb), 1 Solitude Climb (hillclimb), 1 Klausen Altdorf (hillclimb)
5 (Class victory) Svab (hillclimb), DNF* Italian GP
1925: 1 Solitude GP (2000cc), 5 Klausen (hillclimb)
1926: 1 Hohnstein (hillclimb), 1 Süddeutsche tourenfahrt, ? European GP, 2 Klausen Altdorf (hillclimb),
1 Solitude GP
1927: 1 German GP, 1 Klausen (hillclimb), 1 Solitude-Race
1928: 2 German GP
1929: ? Internationelle Alpenfahrt, ? ADAC Langstreckenfahrt, 13 Ulster TT
1931: DNF French GP /
5 German GP
1933: DNS AVUS GP
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Maurice Mestivier (F) |
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* 17 Apr 1902
† 13 Oct 1975 |
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours (Dpt 37)
Chouzy-sur-Cisse, near Blois (Dpt 41) |
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Mestivier started working at Amilcar as a mechanic in 1921.
His brother Marius, who died at Le Mans in 1925, was chief tester
there. Mestivier was a genious tuner and soon became chief mechanic.
Mestivier acquired an Amilcar CS in 1931, a Pégase in 1936 and the unique
Amilcar MCO 1100 in 1933. When Amilcar closed theirracing shop he was attached to the
sales department until 1939. In the 1950s he founded Autobleue, a successful outfit
specialized in tuning Renaults and in building special parts for them. Maurice Mestivier was
very active on various governing boards of the sport and a race
organizer himself. He was the president of the AGACI (the French Drivers
Association) from 1937 to 1969. The first post-war meeting at the Bois
de Boulogne in 1945 was mainly due to his efforts.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva & Marc Ceulemans) |
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1932: DNF La Baule GP
1933: 10 GP de l´U.M.F. (Voiturette)
1935: 1 Orleans (Voiturette) /
DNF Lorraine GP
1936: DNF Monaco (Voiturette)
1938: 4 La Baule (Voiturette)
1939: DNF (heat) Angouleme
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William B. "Buller" Meyer (ZA) |
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* 1899
† 1958 |
East London
? |
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Buller Meyer was one of three brothers from East London that competed regularly in South African races during the 1930s.
Born in East London Meyer was a skilled mechanic/engineer who had a reputation for preparing his cars in an immaculate manner.
He won his first big race the 1935 Cape-Rand-Cape trial in a Graham.
He owned the Frontier Garage in East London which was used by visiting foreign Grand Prix drivers when
in South Africa. On advice of Earl Howe he bought a ex- Freddie Dixon Riley Ulster 1089 cc from Thompson
and Taylor which won the 1935 and 1936 TT's and with it was 2nd in the 1937 South African GP.
He then acquired the ex-Dobbs offset single seater Riley 1486 and used it to win the 1938 South African Grand Prix.
After the war he became a successful pineapple farmer in the Kidd's Beach district.
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| (Info supplied by Robert Young & "Hieronymus") |
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1937: 2 South African GP (Handicap)
1938: 1 South African GP (Handicap)
1939: DNF South African GP (Voiturette) /
DNA Grosvenor (Voiturette)
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Baron Alfred von Michel-Raulino (D) |
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* 10 Dec 1904
† 12 Nov 1931 |
Bamberg, Oberfranken
München |
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Raced a Mercedes-Benz SSK in the sports car class at the 1930 Eifelrennen.
In November 1931 von Michel-Raulino was piloting a plane that crashed at the München-Oberwiesenfeld airfield. Both he and flying student
Friedrich Bagel from Düsseldorf died in the crash
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| (Info supplied by Hugo Boecker) |
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1930: DNF Eifel GP
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Boško Milenković (YU) |
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* 2 Nov 1909
† 11 Mar 1955 |
Wien (Vienna)
? |
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Nicknamed Bata, Boško Milenković was born in Vienna, his father being a rich merchant in Vienna; his mother
being of French/German origin. During the war the family moved to Belgrad, Yugoslavia. When the father died in 1921, Bosko inherited
some wealth including three houses. He studied at the high school, spoke perfectly German, French, Italian,
English, and chose to live on his wealth. He played violin and became a friend of motorcycle racer Voja Ivanicevic,
who played piano. Inspired by Ivanicevic, Bosko started racing with a 300cc NSU.
He bought his first car in 1927 and his car park later included a Cord, a V25 Wanderer and 540K Mercedes.
His first car race was a hillclimb at Avalskim 1932, where he finished third in his class driving a LaSalle.
In 1935 he bought a Bugatti T51 and won with it the Sljeme road race in 1937 and the Dorcol race in 1938.
Bosko run off the road with the Bugatti when racing in fall 1938 in Kluz, Romania, but he was able to rebuild the destroyed transmision
and he took part with the car in the 1939 Belgrad GP.
Milenković lost his fortune during the April 1941 bombings of Belgrad. He took his own life in 1955.
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| (Source: "Prve Beogradske Mezdunarodne Automobilske i Motociklisticke Trke, 3.IX.1939" by Nebojsa Dordevic, Belgrade 1999. Translation from the Serb by Mira Krizman. Info supplied by Aldo Zana) |
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1939: 4 Belgrad GP
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Raymond Henri Milhavet (F) |
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* 9 Apr 1908
† 1 May 1982 |
Paris 20e
Créteil, Val-de-Marne |
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| (Info supplied by André Reine) |
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1937: DNF Frontières (Voiturette)
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Sir Alastair George Lionel Joseph Miller 6th Baronet (GB) |
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* 5 Mar 1883
† 1 Apr 1964 |
South Kensington, London
Chelsea, London |
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Alastair Miller fought in World War I, gaining the rank of Captain in the Irish Guards and Flight Commander in the Royal Flying Corps.
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| (Info supplied by Adam Ferrington) |
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1925: DNA Ouverture GP
1926: DNA British GP /
DNA Boulogne GP
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William Arthur Frank "Billy" Mills (ZA) |
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* 3 Jan 1898
† 16 Sep 1937 |
?
Pietermaritzburg |
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"Billy Mills was born in South Africa. His father was a transport rider, and then a farmer in the Umlaas Road area.
Mills was among the tough motorsport pioneers in South Africa, racing a series of "cutdown"
modified American saloons and then an imported Aston Martin Ulster in the early South
African Grand Prix. The Ulster, one of just 21 built, was bought from the works on 7 July 1936 at a
cost of £1,100. However, he was arguably better known for his long-distance, record-breaking efforts back in the 1920s, notably the
"runs" from Durban to Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg to Durban using Chryslers and De Sotos.
Mills was also among the early South African aviation pioneers, owning a Leopard Moth based at Oribi airfield.
He competed in two South African GPs both at East London, in 1936 in his converted Plymouth twoseater,
finishing sixth and in 1937 in the Ulster retiring on lap one.
He placed thirteenth in the 3rd Kimberley 100 held on the Paardeberg Road Circuit on 5 October 1936, and sixth in the 1st Coronation 100 held on
Maritzburg's Alexandra Park Circuit on 31 May 1937.
Mills did not finish the 1st Bloemfontein Blue Riband held on the Brandkop Speedway on 2 August
1937, and finished sixth and seventh in the two heats making up Silver Springbok Trophy on the Lord Howe Circuit on 21 August 1937.
Mills died suddenly in Pietermaritzburg aged just 39 years and nine months, from heart failure brought on by influenza and pneumonia.
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| (Info supplied by Greg Mills) |
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1936: 6 South African GP (Handicap)
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Tommy Milton (USA) |
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* 14 Nov 1893
† 10 Jul 1962 |
?
? |
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1925: 4 Italian GP
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Guillaume Laurent "Guy" Moll (F/DZ) |
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* 28 May 1910
† 15 Aug 1934
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Rivet, Blida, Algeria
Pescara, Italy |
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Considered one of the greatest natural talents ever, Moll was the son of a Spanish mother and a French father who had emigrated to Algeria.
Guy was born at Rivet, Algeria. In 1932 he had just finished his studies, he took part in a small local race driving a Lorraine-Dietrich. Marcel Lehoux
witnessed that drive and immeditely noticed the talent of the young driver and decided to help him in his future career.
Lehoux entered Moll in the 1932 Grand Prix of Oran, to drive a Bugatti T35C. Moll immediately took the lead, only to retire with a mechanical
problem. He also reired at Casablanca, but then finished 3rd in Marseilles.
Having wealty parents Moll as able to buy a Alfa Romeo Monza for 1933 but he started off the season with an old Bugatti finishing second to
Lehoux at a snowy Pau. He then took his new Monza to 3rd place at Nimes GP and 5th at the Grand Prix de l'ACF. he retired from the Le Mans 24h
race and was disqualified at Reims after leading with 2 laps to go. He then finished 3rd in the Nice, Comminges and Marseilles GPs and ended
up the season with a 2nd place at the Monza GP and then went on to sign for Scuderia Ferrari for 1934.
Debuting for the team he sensationally won the Monaco GP. He then went on to dominate the early part of the season scoring a series of podium
positions including a victory at Avus. But at the high speed Montesilvano straight at Pescara during the Coppa Acerbo Moll's car was hit by the
scirocco-wind, Moll lost control ran into a ditch and the Alfa overturned and continued in a series of spins. The 24-year-old Ferrari star died
shortly after the crash.
Click here for full biography.
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1932: DNF Oran GP /
DNF Casablanca GP /
DNA Nice GP /
3 Marseille GP
1933: 2 Pau GP /
9 Tunis GP /
DNA Picardie GP /
3 Nimes GP /
5 French GP /
DNA Penya Rhin GP /
DSQ Marne GP /
DNF Belgian GP /
3 Nice GP /
3 Comminges GP /
3 Marseille GP /
8 Italian GP /
2 Monza GP /
DNF Czech GP
1934: 1 Monaco GP /
2 Tripoli GP /
1 AVUS GP /
DNF Montreux GP /
3* French GP /
2 Marne GP /
DNF German GP /
2 Coppa Ciano /
DNF Coppa Acerbo
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Pedro José Isidro Manuel Ricardo Monés y Maury, Marquess de Casa Maury (CU/E/GB) |
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Probably born in Cuba. He became an Englishman and changed his name legally to Peter de Casa Maury.
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| (Info supplied by Marc Ceulemans & Reinhard Windeler) |
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1922: DNS Italian GP
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Peter Richard Monkhouse (GB) |
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* 29 Jul 1912
† 23 Apr 1950 |
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Padua, Italy |
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First cousin to George Monkhouse, the racing photographer and book writer.
Together with Ian Connell Monkhouse started the Monaco Motor and Engineering Co. Ltd. at
Watford in 1935. Was co-driver to Connell in the 1938 Donington GP.
Died 1950 in Padua after an accident at the Mille Miglia in which he was the passenger.
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| (Info supplied by Penelope Gibson) |
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1938: ? (4* 1100cc) JCC 200 (Voiturette + GP) /
8* Donington GP
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de Montbressieux - SEE: "Raph"
D. Jorge Cardoso Pereira da Silva de Melo e Faro, Conde de Monte Real (P) |
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* 31 Aug 1916
† 8 Sep 1992
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Lisboa (Lisbon)
? |
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Jorge Melo e Faro was a Portuguese nobleman and private Bugatti driver.
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1936: DNF Vila Real
1937: 5 Vila Real /
3 Estoril
(Info supplied by Wolfgang Kaese)
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Lou Moore (USA) |
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* 12 Sep 1904
† 26 Mar 1956
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Hinton, Oklahoma
Atlanta, Georgia |
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American Indycar racer. Raced a car at Tripoli 1934.
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1934: 7 Tripoli GP
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Edgar Ritter Morawitz von Frank (CS/A) |
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* 26 Apr 1893
† 2 Sep 1945 |
Wien (Vienna)
Barcelona, Spain |
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Coming from a rich and recently ennobled Austrian family Edgar von Morawitz was publisher of "Prager Tagblatt".
He participated in a number of Central European Hill Climbs during the twenties, and won the 1925 Solitude race
meeting outright in a 1.5 litre Bugatti. He was Hugo Urban-Emmerich's brother-in-law.
In 1927 he moved to Spain, bought the Sitges-Terramar Race Track in Catalonia.
Owned a Bugatti T30 4-seater Torpedo by Widerkehr, a T13 Brescia Course, which was later substituted by a Bugatti T39.
In Spain it seems he owned a Bugatti T35B and a T37A. He lost all his Bugattis in the Spanish Civil War.
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| (Info supplied by Martin Pfundner & Michael Müller) |
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1925: 3 Taunus GP (1500cc)
1926: DNC Rome GP (1500cc) /
DNF Targa Florio (1500cc)
1932: 2 Pascua GP /
3 Anis de Mono
1933: 6 Penya Rhin GP
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André Paul Victor Morel (F) |
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* 3 Aug 1884
† 5 Oct 1961 |
Troyes
Vaulx-en-Velin |
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From being a trainee bicycle mechanic Morel entered the motor industry as an apprentice at Corre in Paris, before moving to Lyon where he ran a workshop and also worked for Berliet as a fitter.
During WW1 he learnt to fly and ended up as a chief instructor. In 1919 he joined Le Zèbre as an agent for the South of France having made his competition debut in a Le Zèbre touring car at
the 1914 Val Suzon hillclimb. He was instrumental in introducing the three partners who would launch Amilcar, and he worked and raced successfully for the marque until 1929. During the 1920s
he also raced for Voisin and Delage. He had a brief interlude as a representative for Hudson-Essex and also Minerva before joining Talbot in 1933. After WW2 he returned to Talbot and finally
retired from racing in 1953, having finished 9th in the 1952 Le Mans 24 Hours at the age of 68!
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis) |
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1923: DNF French GP
1924: 3 San Sebastian GP
1925: 1* San Sebastian GP
1926: DNC Provence GP (1100cc) /
DNC* European GP /
DNF Spanish GP /
DNA Coppa Montenero (1100cc) /
1 Italian GP (1100cc) /
7 JCC 200 (1100cc)
1927: 1c/2 Provence GP /
3 French GP /
DNF San Sebastian GP (1100cc) /
DNF Spanish GP /
DNF Boulogne GP (1100cc) /
1c/2 JCC 200 (1100cc)
1928: DNF Antibes GP /
10 Rome GP
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Rittmeister J. von Mosch (D) |
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† < 1940
From Hannover. Raced a Mercedes sports car at Nurburgring 1927-28.
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1926: DNA German GP (2000cc)
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Enrique Felix Moyano (RA) |
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* 11 May 1910
† 6 Nov 1955 |
Victoria, Entre Ríos
Paraná, Entre Ríos |
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1936: 5 Buenos Aires GP
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Mucciero - SEE: "Legros"
Hermann Paul Müller (D) |
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* 21 Nov 1909
† 30 Dec 1975
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Bielefeld
Ingolstadt |
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Müller started racing motorcycles in 1929
with a 500 cc Imperia, then changed to JAP for dirt track. In 1931 he joined the Victoria
factory team where he became German Champion in the 600cc sidecar class in 1932. After
Victoria stopped racing at the end of 1933, H.P. Müller raced as a privateer
with his 350 cc Victoria with JAP engine during 1934 and early 1935 until Auto Union gave
him a new 500 cc factory DKW. With this machine he became German Champion in the 500 cc
class in 1936. The same year, he also won the Gold Medal in the six-day trial and in 1937
he was asked to join the Auto Union Grand Prix team as reserve driver. During these years,
H.P. Müller the motorcycle racer changed to Hermann Müller, the grand prix driver, a name
change, enforced by the top of the German Motor Sport Authority during the thirties.
His first start was at the Eifel GP 1937 and he became works driver in 1938.
His best results were third places at the 1937
Coppa Acerbo and sharing the drive with Rosemeyer at the Masaryk Circuit. He was wounded in French GP crash 1938.
In 1939, Müller came second to Lang in the Kahlenberg Mountain Climb where he beat Stuck in both runs.
At the Grossglockner Mountain Climb, Müller again won the first heat by one second but in the second heat, he lost too much time in the fog, finishing third. He
won the French Grand Prix and came second at the German Grand Prix.
In the four races of the 1939 European Championship Müller
outscored Lang and would under normal circumstances have been the 1939 European Champion, the equivalent of today's
World Champion. But after the conclusion of the series, the A.I.A.C.R. could not meet and
the German ONS changed the existing rules to the favor of Lang and declared him
the champion instead.
Müller was a Leutnant at the Luftwaffe, active in the aero engine factory
in Litzmannstadt. He was not flying. At the end of the war in 1945, he went back to Auto
Union in Chemnitz, East Germany, where he had to do prisoner work, which was better than being
deported to Siberia. He then worked as a woodcutter, sent his family (wife Mariele and two baby
boys) to Bielefeld in West Germany, where he arrived separately in December that year. In
1946, when he raced bikes again, he changed his name back to H.P. Müller. His wife was a great supporter
at the races, managing his pits. He became West-German Champion on a 250 cc DKW in 1947 and 1948. In 1950 and 1951 he became
German Champion in the 125 cc class driving a factory DKW. The following year he drove
the Italian Mondial and the Schnell-Horex in 1953. He joined the factory NSU team in 1954 and won with them the World
Championship in the 250 cc class in 1955 at age 45. In 1956 he set
world records with a NSU record bike at the Bonneville saltflats of Utah. Thereafter
he worked for Auto Union and at DAF in Holland and eventually returned to the Auto Union Press Department
in Ingolstadt where he died after a long illness in 1975.
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt) |
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1937: 7 Eifel GP /
DNF Belgian GP /
DNF German GP /
3 Coppa Acerbo /
5 Italian GP /
3* Czech GP /
4 Donington GP
1938: DNS French GP /
4* German GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Swiss GP /
DNF Italian GP /
4 Donington GP
1939: 7 Eifel GP /
DNF Belgian GP /
1 French GP /
2 German GP /
4 Swiss GP /
3 Belgrad GP
EUROPEAN CHAMPION 1939
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Jimmy Murphy (USA) |
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* 12 Sep 1894
† 15 Sep 1924
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San Fransisco
Syracuse, New York |
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Winner of the 1921 French Grand Prix and the 1922 Indy 500.
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1921: 1 French GP
1923: 3 European GP /
DNA Spanish GP
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Franciszek Mycielski ( ) |
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1930: 4 Lwow GP
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