Erwin Bauer (racing driver)

Erwin Bauer (racing driver)

Nation:	Germany
Automobile world championship
First start:	1953 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1953 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1953  Erwin Bauer
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Erwin Bauer (born July 17, 1912 in Stuttgart ; † June 2, 1958 in Cologne ) was a German racing driver .

Career

Bauer was the first continental European allowed to drive a Lotus outside the British Isles. At the Eifel race at the Nürburgring in 1954, he stepped in at short notice and brought the little Lotus to a remarkable fourth place in the class up to 1000 cc.

Its only start in the automobile world championship took place on August 2, 1953 . Again at the Nürburgring he drove a Veritas RS, but retired on the first lap. Erwin Bauer drove for several years in the German sports car championship, in 1956 together with Willi Heeks in a Mercedes 220 SE and from 1956 with the Austrian Gotfrid Köchert in his 2-liter Ferrari . Erwin Bauer had a fatal accident in this car at the 1000 km race in 1958 , again at the Nürburgring. He was waved off in tenth, but overlooked the race director with the checkered flag and drove on. A few kilometers after the finish - the race was long over - he collided with a slow vehicle that was on its slowdown lap and had a fatal accident.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1953	Erwin Bauer	Veritas RS	Veritas 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1953
							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	WD	withdrawn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	Gotfrid Köchert	Ferrari 500TRC	Gotfrid Köchert	failure	fuel pump

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Porsche San Giorgio	Porsche 356 Osca MT4	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				30th			8th
1956	Erwin Bauer	Mercedes-Benz 220	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					25th	DNF
1957	Gotfrid Köchert	Ferrari 500TRC	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						13	DNF
1958	Austrian Automobile Sport Club	Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						10

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2003, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Erwin Bauer at Racing Sports Cars