Adolf Brudes

Adolf Brudes

Nation:	Germany
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1952  Veritas
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Adolf Brudes (born October 15, 1899 in Groß Kottulin , Upper Silesia , † November 5, 1986 in Bremen ), often incorrectly referred to as Adolf Brudes von Breslau , was a German motorcycle and car racer .

Career

Brudes began his career in motorcycle races, because from 1924 to 1927 the master mechanic was a works driver for Victoria in Nuremberg. From 1928 he took part in automobile races and in the 1930s he also raced a Bugatti . Among other things, Brudes was involved in the success of BMW at the Mille Miglia in 1940 when he and his partner Ralph Roese finished third in the overall standings on the BMW 328 MM Roadster (prototype) .

After the Second World War , Brudes started out with Veritas and then for the various Borgward brands as a racing and record-breaking driver. In 1951 he set 38 world records in a Goliath racing car. In 1952 he and Hans-Hugo Hartmann set internationally recognized records in the class up to 1.5 l (including 100 km with an average of 215.5 km / h) on the Linas-Montlhéry race track . In the same year he made his only start in the automobile and driver world championships at the German Grand Prix , but had to end the race early due to engine failure.

At the first 1000 km race in 1953 on the Nürburgring , Brudes started with the Borgward No. 37, but had to hand the car over to Bechem / Helfrich early after they had already retired with No. 38 on the first lap. Brudes / Bechem / Helfrich won the class up to 1500 cm³ and came third in the overall ranking. At the Carrera Panamericana of the same year, Adolf Brudes had a serious accident, but got away with relatively minor injuries. In 1954 he was involved in the record drives with the small Lloyd racing car, which with a 350 cc two-stroke engine achieved an average of 120.85 km / h over three hours.

In 1957 he left Borgward and started his own business in Bremen with an NSU agency. Six years later, Brudes retired as a businessman. He continued to drive smaller races; The 69-year-old competed in his last competition in 1968 in an Alfa Romeo Giulia TI. In 1976, Adolf Brudes was seen for the last time at the Nürburgring with his BMW 328 "Mille Miglia".

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1952	Adolf Brudes	Veritas RS	Veritas 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1952
						DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Borgward GmbH	Borgward 1500 racing coupe	Hans-Hugo Hartmann	failure	no petrol

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Borgward	Borgward 1500 Racing Coupé Borgward RS	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF		DNF		DNF
1954	Borgward Carl Borgward	Borgward Hansa 1500 Sports Coupé Borgward Isabella	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF					73

Web links

Commons : Adolf Brudes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Adolf Brudes on meisterdinger.de
• Adolf Brudes on grandprix.com
• Adolf Brudes won the field hill climb
• Photo by Adolf Brudes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race. Heel, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
2. ^ Motor classic. Issue 2, 1987, ISSN  0177-8862 .