Max de Terra
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1952 Swiss Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1953 Swiss Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1952 Alfred Dattner 1953 Ecurie Espadon | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
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Maximilian "Max" de Terra (born October 6, 1918 in Zurich ; † December 29, 1982 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss racing driver .
Career
Max de Terra was one of the gentlemen's drivers who regularly took part in events of the revived motorsport in the late 1940s and early 1950s. At first he only competed in small national competitions in Switzerland and in mountain races .
After 1949, he at the Grand Prix of Bern on a Cisitalia finished in ninth place, he started in 1952 at the Grand Prix of Switzerland on a Simca-Gordini Type 11, the race but had to quit early after a defect in the magneto. In 1953 he drove his second and last world championship run. Back in Bern, this time he drove a Ferrari 166 from the Ecurie Espadon of his compatriot Rudolf Fischer . De Terra crossed the finish line, but was 14 laps behind the winner Alberto Ascari and was not classified.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1952 | Alfred Dattner | Gordini Type 11 | Gordini 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1953 | Ecurie espadon | Ferrari 166C | Ferrari 1.5 V12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| total | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 |
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| 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 |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902007-46-8
Web links
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Terra, Max de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Terra, Maximilian de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1982 |
| Place of death | Zollikon |