Fritz Riess

Fritz Riess

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 :	-

Friedrich "Fritz" Riess , often also written Riess , (* July 11, 1922 in Nuremberg ; † May 15, 1991 in Samedan , Switzerland ) was a German racing car driver .

Career

Fritz Riess' motorsport career began between 1936 and 1939 with motorcycle off-road and reliability rides on BMW. After the Second World War , he first drove Veritas and AFM racing cars. On August 3, 1952, at the German Grand Prix , he took part in the race with a Veritas RS and came in 7th, two laps behind the winner, Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari ). It was his only participation in a run for the drivers' world championship.

He achieved his greatest success in motorsport in the sports car. In 1952, he and Hermann Lang achieved overall victory at the 20th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans . It was Daimler-Benz AG's first appearance in this race after the Second World War. Lang and Riess won in their Mercedes-Benz 300 SL with an average speed of 155.575 km / h and distanced their two team colleagues Theo Helfrich and Helmut Niedermayr by one lap.

In the same year Riess won the sports car class up to 2000 cc on Veritas at the Eifel race , 1.3 seconds ahead of Toni Ulmen , also on Veritas.

In 1953 he drove a few sports car races in Alfa Romeo before giving up racing for family and professional reasons.

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	Fritz Riess	Veritas RS	Veritas 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

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

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	WD	withdrawn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
1952	Daimler-Benz AG	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	Hermann Lang	Overall victory
1953	SPA Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM	Karl Kling	failure	drive shaft

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1956	Fritz Riess	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					10	DNF
1957	Fritz Riess	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						20th

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz Riess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Image: Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess (right)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: German racing drivers . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-86852-042-2 , p. 72.
2. ↑ Racingsportscars.com . Retrieved May 23, 2017.
3. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC Eifelrennen . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2009, ISBN 978-3-86852-070-5 .