Beat Fehr

Claude Beat Fehr (born June 21, 1943 in Wallisellen ; † June 18, 1967 in Caserta ) was a Swiss racing driver .

Surname

After the Grand Prix of Caserta in 1967 , in which Fehr was killed, the name George Claude appeared in the Swiss press as a victim in the tragic race. From this it was deduced that this would be Beat Fehr's real name. In fact, this could never be confirmed and the suspicion is that George was the third first name of the Swiss and George Claude Beat Fehr became George Claude .

Career

Beat Fehr was an architect by profession and at the beginning of his career only competed in car racing as a hobby. As he became more and more successful, he began to do motorsport professionally. Fehr, who was a close friend of the Swiss racing driver Jürg Dubler , initially drove mountain races in Switzerland, as these were exempt from the Swiss motor sports ban. In 1967 he became a team member of the Swiss racing team Zurich Auto Racing Partnership and contested his first international car race on a Brabham BT18 in Caserta.

Death in Caserta

Fehr was killed in a particularly tragic way in the Caserta disaster. The collision between Fehr and the Italian Andrea Saltari triggered the fatal chain reaction in which Fehr, Giacomo Russo and Romano Perdomi perished . Fehr and Saltari collided at the end of Via Domenico Mondo, the Swiss car got on and crashed into a barrier that separated the racetrack from a railway line. Fehr got out of his vehicle unharmed and tried to warn the pilots coming by hand signals. He made the fateful mistake of running onto the road. He was hit by a group of racing cars - including Clay Regazzoni , Corrado Manfredini , Massimo Natili and Manfred Mohr - and knocked to the ground. To this day it is unclear from which vehicle it was captured; However, rumors that say Giacomo Russo, who had an accident shortly before this group, had already met Fehr, do not want to silence. The unfortunate Swiss died on the way to the hospital.

Web links

• Beat Fehr at motorsportmemorial.org