Albert Schuster (racing driver)

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Albert Schuster ( bl. 1920s) was a German motorcycle racing driver .

Career

The Chemnitz shoemaker was one of the most successful drivers in the pioneering days of German motorcycle racing and won the opening events of a number of later extremely important races. He achieved his success mostly on Wanderer machines that were manufactured in his hometown. In the second half of the 1920s, he also drove Indian machines and was a representative of the American Indian Motocycle Company in the Chemnitz district headquarters .

In 1922 Albert Schuster won the 350 cc class in the first AVUS race in Berlin . The following year he won the first swimming pool race on a 750 meter hiker in Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea .

In 1924, Schuster won the 750cc category at the Marienberg triangle race, which was also held for the first time in his Saxon homeland, and was able to repeat his previous year's success in Swinoujscie. In addition, he won the title in the 500 cc class at the first German road championship of the DMV - up to and including 1925, the DMV and ADAC announced separate German championship titles. 1927 Albert Schuster at the I. Badberg-Viereck-race on the Badberg-Viereck, today's Sachsenring around Hohenstein-Ernstthal on a 1000-cm³-Indian.

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Race wins

year class machine run route
1922 350 cc walker AVUS race AVUS
1923 750 cc walker Swinoujscie bath race Swinoujscie
1924 750 cc walker Marienberg triangle race Marienberg triangle
750 cc walker Swinoujscie bath race Swinoujscie
1927 1000 cc Indian I. Badberg square race Badberg square

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