Edgar Barth

Edgar Barth

Nation:	GDR (1953) FR Germany (1957–1964)
Automobile world championship
First start:	1953 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1964 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1953  EMW  1957–1960  Porsche  1964  Rob Walker Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Edgar Barth (born January 26, 1917 in Herold ; † May 20, 1965 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German racing car driver .

Career

Barth began his career in 1934 with motorcycle races for the DKW and BMW brands . After the Second World War he lived in East Germany and began to intervene in international racing again in the early 1950s . In 1953 he won the Dresden Autobahn spider . At the 1953 German Grand Prix he represented the GDR in the driver's world championship at EMW . At the Eifel race in 1955, he and Paul Thiel drove a double victory for the AWE racing collective in the racing sports car class up to 1500 cm³. In 1957 he moved to the West and was then taken under contract by Porsche .

In the following years he drove Formula 2 , sports car and hill climb races . His victories included first place in the Formula 2 classification at the 1957 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring , the Targa Florio in 1959 and winning the European Hill Climbing Championship three times in 1959, 1963 and 1964, with his title success in that year 1963 was particularly impressive because he won six of the total of seven races.

Edgar Barth in the Porsche 904-8 during training for the 1964 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in the Brünnchen section

He won the Targa Florio together with Wolfgang Seidel in a Porsche 718 RSK . This race went over 14 laps or 1008 km, which the team covered in 11: 02: 21.8 hours or at an average speed of 91.3 km / h. During training for his penultimate race on the Nürburgring, the 1000 km race in 1964 , he had a spectacular accident with a Porsche 904-8 after changing the brake pads. He had neglected to press the brake pedal several times to build up brake pressure before leaving. As a result, when braking in front of the south bend, he stepped into nothing. The car hit the ditch at the edge of the track with great force and Barth was thrown out with his seat, but hardly injured himself and was supposed to start in a replacement car on Sunday. But Barth was not used because his partner Colin Davis had an accident after ten laps and was eliminated.

Barth only appeared sporadically in Formula 1. At the 1958 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring , he achieved his best Grand Prix result, a 6th place, with a Formula 2 Porsche 718 RSK . Most recently - already marked by his cancer - he drove a Cooper-BRM of the Rob Walker Racing Team at the German Grand Prix in 1964 , but retired early with a damaged clutch.

The 48-year-old died in 1965. His son Jürgen Barth became a well-known long-distance driver and won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1977 .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1953	Racing collective EMW	EMW R2	EMW 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1957	Dr. Ing.F. Porsche KG	Porsche 550 RS	Porsche 1.5 F4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Dr. Ing.F. Porsche KG	Porsche RSK	Porsche 1.5 F4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1960	Dr. Ing.F. Porsche KG	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 F4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	Rob Walker Racing Team	Cooper T66	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1953
							DNF
1957
						12
1958
								6th
1960
									7th
1961
						DNS	DNS
1964
						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
1957	Porsche KG	Porsche 718 RSK	Umberto Maglioli	failure	accident
1958	Porsche KG	Porsche 718 RSK	Paul Brother	4th place and class win
1959	Porsche KG	Porsche 718 RSK	Wolfgang Seidel	failure	Gearbox damage
1960	Porsche KG	Porsche 718 RS60	Wolfgang Seidel	Rank 11
1961	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 718 RS61 / 4 Spyder	Hans Herrmann	Rank 7
1962	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356 B Abarth	Hans Herrmann	Rank 7 and class win
1963	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 718/8 WRS Spyder	Herbert Linge	Rank 8 and class win
1964	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 904/8	Herbert Linge	failure	Clutch damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1958	Porsche KG	Porsche 718 RSK	Jean Behra	failure	Power transmission
1959	Porsche Auto Company	Porsche 718 RSK	John Fitch	Rank 5
1961	Porsche car	Porsche 718 RS 61	Hans Herrmann	failure	Engine failure
1962	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL	Paul-Ernst Straehle	Rank 9
1963	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL	Herbert Linge	Rank 10
1964	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 718 RS Spyder	Herbert Linge	Rank 19

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1956	VEB	AWE R3 / 55	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
						7th
1957	Porsche	Porsche 550 Porsche 718 RSK	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						4th	DNF		5
1958	Porsche	Porsche 550 Porsche 718 RSK	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			5	DNF	DNF	6th	4th	4th
1959	Porsche	Porsche 718 RSK	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			5	1	DNF	DNF	12
1960	Porsche	Porsche 718 RSK	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
			DNF		5	DNF	11
1961	Porsche	Porsche 718 RSK	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			DNF	3	DNF	7th	2
1962	Porsche Scuderia Serenissima Robert Buchet	Porsche 356	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
					9		10		6th	7th	14th						18th
1963	Porsche	Porsche 356 Porsche 718 WRS	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
					10	3			4th		1	8th			6th	1			1
1964	Porsche	Porsche 356 Porsche 718 RS Porsche 904 Elva Mk.7	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
			6th	19th	6th		5		DNF	1	DNF	DNF	1			DNF						3

Web links

Commons : Edgar Barth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: German racing drivers. Portraits, pictures and successes from 100 years. Heel, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-042-2 , p. 89.
2. ^ World Sportscar Championship
3. ↑ Pictures in: auto motor und sport. Issue 13, 1964, ISSN  0005-0806 , p. 15.
4. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: German racing drivers. Portraits, pictures and successes from 100 years. Heel, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-042-2 , p. 48 and p. 209.
5. ↑ auto motor and sport. No. 12, 1964, pp. 36-38.
6. ↑ auto motor and sport. Issue 17, 1964, p. 28.