Helmut Niedermayr

Helmut Niedermayr

Nation:	Germany
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1952  AFM
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Helmut Niedermayr (born November 29, 1915 in Munich ; † April 3, 1985 in Christiansted , Saint Croix , Virgin Islands , USA ) was a German racing driver who was active in various vehicle categories. After his racing career, Niedermayr moved to the GDR .

Career

Niedermayr, who was living in Berlin at the time , took part in only one run to the Formula 1 automobile world championship, the German Grand Prix on August 3, 1952. He started as a private driver with an AFM racing car and thus achieved ninth place Race that was held as a Formula 2 race this year .

Before that, Niedermayr and Theo Helfrich had already finished second behind the overall winners and team mates Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL for Daimler-Benz AG .

On August 31 of the same year, Niedermayr had a serious accident in a Formula 2 race on the Grenzlandring with his race car built by Reif and powered by a Veritas Meteor engine . While he himself was only slightly injured, at least 13 spectators were killed in this most fatal accident in German racing history (some sources name another, unknown dead) while 42 people were injured. The Niedermayr accident ensured that races were never again held on the high-speed oval around the town of Wegberg .

Niedermayr founded the Berlin-Halensee racing community , for which he and other drivers competed in various sports car races in West and East Germany until around 1954. His only start in a Formula 1 race took place in 1954, when he finished seventh at the Berlin Grand Prix at the AVUS with a modernized Veritas Meteor, which was not part of the world championship .

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	Helmut Niedermayr	AFM 6	BMW 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1952
						9

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	Theo Helfrich	Rank 2

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5
1956	Richard Trenkel	Porsche 356	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
						DNF

Web links

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• Helmut Niedermayr at Historic Racing