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APRIL 23, 1966
-THE LEGEND OF NEUBAUER
MUNICH, Germany, March 29- the military artillery college at meticulousness of lts F/1 teamdur­
ing the 3-liter years 1938 to 1940.
Alfred Neubauer, who managed the Traiskirchen near Vienna.
After the Second World War he
In 1911 Neubauer was assigned to
i�gendary Mercedes racing teams
to overwhelming superiority In pre­ a siege artillery regiment as an en­ managed the intermediate period of
and post-war years, celebrated his ·sign and just as the Austrian army S-llter sports cars, and his final
75th birthday today.
seemed about to drag him lnto an­ triumph came during the 2.5-liter
The grandlather of German racing onymity It was decided to mobilize. era which ended In the Fall or 1955,
With his enormous knowledge of when the Daimler-Benz AG, having
has been active in the international
field of motor sport !or 43 years. automobile engineering, Neubauer won the world championship in this
Appropriately enough, N e u b a u e r immediately came to the attention of and the previous year, gave up for­
took up his racing career ln the his superior officers who ordered mula and sports car racing.
But the memories of his charges
Spring of 1923 and although his In­ him to at-tend Austro-Daimler•s op­
live on: the good-natured OtloMerz,
fluence is still strong, laid It offi­ eration as a trainee.
Here he came under the watchful the incredibly versatile Rudolf Car­
cially to rest in the Fall of 1955.
acciola and Manfred von Brauchitsh
His rule spanned the greatest eye of one Ferdinand Porsche.
Porsche was nobody's fool.At the who Ii ved life to the hilt, despite hiS
period of unrest that this Century
is likely to spawn, which included end of the war he put Neubauer to profession. Hermann Lang, who be­
two world wars, a staggering de­ work a.s a production engineer with came famous for hts refusal to ac­
Austro-Da1mler and shortly there­ cept defeat even In the tale of the
pression and the Third Reich.
Yet those who are acquainted with after assigned him to drive on the most overwhelming odds, and Karl
Kling, a dedicated and disciplined
him will testify that the only marks factory-sponsored team.
In the Spring of '23 Porsche be­ man who was as brilliant a driver
this lifetime of great victory and
crushing defeat may have left upon came technical director of the Daim­ as he was an engineer. These were
him are hidden deep beneath a nat­ l er-Motoren-Gesellschaft and took some o! the Germans who helped to
ural I a y e r of cheerfulness and N eubauer w1th him to Stuttgart­ put Germany on the racing map.
Unterturkhelm.
charm.
From the phalanx of Europeans
At the age of 32 Neubauer started who drove for Mercedes-Benz under
He Is a proud man, and has every
right to be. He has nursed and en­ his career as head of the driving his management came the sensitive
couraged three generations of the and finishing departments. He then Italian Luigi Fagloll, the Maurice
greatest names in racing from Otto became research engineer and was Chevalier of motor racing, Louis
finally put in charge of the com­ C h I r o n, Switzerland's Christian
Merz to Stirling Moss.
pany's racing activities.
Kautz and England's genlleman of
MILITARY BEGINNINGS
gentlemen, Dick Seaman.
Neubauer, who achieved his place UNSENSATIONAL RACER
In later years he managed teams
in raclng's non-existent hallo! fame
Neubauer's personal racing ca­ with the likes (if there were any) of
through his handling of the efforts reer was not particularly sensa­ Juan Manuel Fanglo, who won the
of the Daimler-Benz AG, broke into tional. He took a third in the Targa world championship five times, and
the automotive !leld through military Florio of 1924 and did well in sev­ Stirling Moss, who in so many sea­
eral other races that season but sons came within a hair's breadth
cnllege.
He was nine when he saw his first at the end of the year he retired of the elusive crown.
car, one of the very early Benz ma­ from active racing to manage the
In his retirement, Neubauer is
chines. It wandered Lnto his North team full time.
still extremely interested in every­
Neubauer•s Influence was f e It thing and anything that has to do with
Moravian village late on a summer
afternoon In 1898. In those days the strongly through four of motor rac­ the sport, and he follows it closely.
Benz was made by the old German ing's historical epochs. He did a On the occasions he appears at an
f i r m of Wagenbau-Fabrikgesell­ considerable amount or develop­ event he is welcomed by the partici­
schaft whose headquarters was in ment work during the latter half pants as an unerring advisor, by the
Nesselsdorf.
or- what is generally described as spectator as a man whom be has
Neubauer was sufficiently thun­ the classic era - from 1894 to 1914. had the good fortune to glimpse.
derstruck to throw his tin soldiers
From 1925, in the middle of an
out of the window and spend the rest age dominated by gigantic super­
of his childhood playing with model sports cars extending from 1921 to
cars. As time went by he read and 1933, Neubauer, working !rom his
DETROIT, March 29 - U .s. motor
studied everything he could lay hands desk and from behind the pit wall, vehicle production last week totaled
on which related to automobiles. organized and ran the Mercedes­ 235,158 units. the Automobile Manu­
He was obviously set on an en­ Benz team ln the earth-shaking facturers Assn. reported today.
gineering career until the sudden 750-kg-formula.
Cumulative output In 1966 through
death of his parents forced a drastic
Still with Mercedes, Neubauer March 26 totaled 2,799,378 units,
change of plans, and he enlisted In was responsible for the legendary including 2,338,482 cars.
Motor Vehicle Production
Only Swingers
The very pretty little 1600cc Datsun Silvia now in production in con­
(Hotta photo)
s lderable quantity in Japan.
Datsun Builds Silvia in Quantity
By M.A. Hotta
STANDARD DATSUN S!LVlA 1600
NEW YORK, April 5 - Just one MODEL: CPS-31 l.
year ago, a production prototype of ENClNE: Water-cooled, obv-4 In line, d1,;­
1600cc (97.3 cu.m., 96bhp (SAE)
the very pretty Datsun Silvia, then placemenl:
at 6,000rpm, Torque: 103 t/
f lb at 4,000 rpm,
called the Datsun 1500 coupe, was Carbu,etion: variable venturi, side-draft
shown at the 1965 New York Inter­ twin, Generator: 300 watt alternator.
TRANSMISSION: AJl-synchro, 4-speed,
national Auto Show.
manual s1!ck shift.·
Albrecht Goertz , an industrial GEAR RATIO: 4th: 1.000, 3,d: l.312, 2:nd:
designer in New York and the cre­ 2.018, Isl: 3.382, Rev.: 3.365, f'inal: 4.111
ator of the 1955 BMW 503 and 507, (optional: 3.889.)
was the design consultant to Nissan BRAKES: Hydraulic , (root: disc, Rear: lead­
and trailing shoes.
for creating the Silvia, and his work Ing
SUSPENSION: front: independent coll
caused much favorable comment. springs , rea.: semi-elliptic teal sprlllgs.
Now the car is In production and, DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase: 89.9 In,, Over­
happily, the lines are unchanged. all length: 156.9 In., Overall width: 59.4 In.,
height: 50.2 I n., Ory weight: 2,155
The production model is powered Overall
lb., T ire size: 5.60 - 14 4P.
by an oversquare 1600cc engine and
is seen increasingly on the streels
In Japan,
Since Japanese motorists are be­
coming more and more performance
conscious, the performance of cur­
rent cars made in Japan, both pro­
duction and privately tuned models,
should not be under-estimated.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 4
In order tokeep over-enthuslastic - Battista PI n j n-Farina, perhaps
motorists in line, the police patrol­ the most inOuential automobile styl­
ling on the newly-opened 6-lane ist of all time, died here today.
highway Just outside of Tokyo em­
He was 70.
P toy an 1800cr. version of the Datsun
Pinin-Farina, who did work on
Silvia, specially prepared for them contract for almost every large
by NiSsan Motor Co. Although the manufacturer in the world at one
horsepower of this version Is not ti m e or another, founded his coach­
made availal)le to the public, it \s bui lding firm in Turin, wherehe had
believed to be well over l OOhp, worked first as a mechanic for Fiat.
since the standard 1600cc version
Pininfarina•s approach, in l_ater
is rated at 96hp at 6,000 rpm.
years restrained and elegant, is seen
reflected in one aspect or another
p.u. 6 pt.
ln almost every contemparary de­
sign of worth on the highway.
He was known for his coachwork
on Ferrari, the finest example of
which was the 4.9 liter America
Super[ast in the middle 50s. Another
of hls successful designs was the
AUa 1300 Giulietta, produced from
1952-1966.
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The great Neubauer in his prime as field marshal
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on the new Fiat, in a future issue.
Racing Strategist
Neubauer Nears 80
STUTTGART, Ger., Mar. 15 Alfred Neubauer, whose name
cannot be separated from the great
achievements and successes of
Mercedes-Benz on the world's
racetracks, will become 80 on Mar,
29 .
Neubauer was born in 1891 in
Neutitschein, Moravia,
(Czechoslovakia today) and at the
age of 10 already ha~ his mind set
on cars. Somehow the schoolboy
Alfred Neubauer managed to obtain
all the available catalogues from the
few European car manufacturers
which existed around the turn of
the century,
.
Neubauer says his child time
hob b y later b came almost an
obsession. His love for everything
to do with engines did not subside
as he grew up, In 1920, he became
supervisor of the new car testing
department at Austro-Daimler in
Vienna-Neustadt.
Here he was noticed by the
director of the technical
department, Ferdinand Porsche ,
who let him take an active part in
racing for the first time. In 1922,
he successfully competed in the
Targa Florio with an
A ustro-Daimler "Sascha" model,
and in the same year became the
overall winner in the difficult
Hungarian touring race driving the
same model.
In 1923, Porsche, who was tben
technical director of the
D aimler-Motorengesellschaft, took
Neubauer with him to
Unterturkheim, Here Neubauer was
{{rst head of the . driving and
finishing department, then test
engineer and finally was put in
charge of the racing cars. The latter
position was the foundation for his
subsequent career. He withdrew
from active racing to take care of
his racing comrades.
In representing the Mercedes
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ALFRED NEUBAUER
... living history
racing stalls, Alfred Neubauer
created his own, unmistakeable
style in the three decades to follow.
The way he organized each race was
an example of first-class strategic
planning. He always had the right
answers and solutions on hand.
The octogenarian of today is still
proud of the three generations of
racing drivers he was able to coach.
His German teams included Otto
Merz, Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred
von Brauchitsch, Hermann Lang
and Karl Kling.
The famous foreign drivers in his
team have been Italy's Luigi
Fagioli; France's Louis Chiron;
Christian Kautz from Switzerland;
Britishers Richard Seaman and
Stirling Moss; and Argentina's Juan
Manuel Fangio, who was five times
World Champion.
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running of the Pikes Peak Auto under special rules under the
Hillclimb, along with late model supervision of the U.S. Auto Club.
stock cars.
Each division will be limited to 50
Hillclimb association officials entries with the fastest 25 qualifiers
said the two new classes will run as competing in the event.
separate divisions and for a
Entry blanks and rule books are
percentage of their entry fee.
available from Pikes Peak Hillclimb
As the championship car division Assn., P.O. Box 153, Colorado
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(404) 261-0363.
Oct. 18-19-WKA Southern Road Racing Series, Roebling '
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Oct. 12-SOCA Ohio Valley Region Solo II No. 8, Powell
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Alfred Neubauer, legendary
boss of the Mercedes-Benz racing
team, died recently at age 89 at
his home in Aldingen am N eckar,
near Stuttgart, West Germany.
Neubauer, a race driver himself
in the early '20.s, led the Mercedes team from 1926 't o 1955. His
drivers, who won 84 of the 160
majoI' races they entered, included such greats as Rudolf Oaracciola, Hermann Lang, Stirling
Moss 'a nd Juan Manuel Fangio.
Martin Holmes photos
For the second ,t ime this year, Carlsson in the 280) were doomed
David smote Gdliath. The Group before they began. M'e rcedes 'had
2 Datsun 160J again proved itself committed ·t o the rally before it
the equal to its powerful rivals found out it was a secret, no-pace
from Ford, Fiat, Mercedes and note course. That Mikkdla was
. Vaux'haU. Against 'the expectations able to sa.'lvage a third was a wonof everyone, Finn Timo Salonen der.
scored his first World Rally ChamFord and Chevette Vauxhall
pionship win for 1ili.e Japanese mounted serious chaHenges whic'h
company. E-arlier this year, Shek- ended in naught, although local
har M'e hta won the Ba's t African Paul Adams did manage a credible
Sa~ari Rally in a similar car.
sixth in his Chevette Vauxhall
The win did :l ittle to improve 2300. The top Ford was a 2000RS
Datsun's standing in the manu- E-scort driven by Pentti Airikkaln
facturer's points race, however, as of Finland. He was giving Saionen
W'a lter Rohrl was second in his a good run when he went off the
Fiat Abarth 131 moving him into road after the end of a stage puta commanding lead in lt he driver's ting both himself and his co-driver
standings, 'a nd securing a 19-point in the hospital.
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MOTORGARD RALLY OF NEW ZEALAND
Mercedes' four-car team (three
1-Timo Salon en/ Seppo Harjanne, Datsun
of the recently homolgated 500 160J; 2-Walter Rohrl/Christian Geistdorfer,
SLCs and a single 280CE) and Fiat 131 ; 3-Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz, Mercedes 500SLC; 4-George Fury IMonte Suffern,
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