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Porsche congratulates Motor Sport Legend Hans Herrmann
Racing driver from Stuttgart celebrates his 90th birthday
Stuttgart
. Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the
The proverbial “Hans im Glück” (Hans in Luck) at the wheel celebrated his greatest successes with sports cars from Zuffenhausen: in the Mille Miglia, the
After Herrmann had also secured the title of German Sports Car Champion in the same year, he attracted the attention of Mercedes-Benz head of racing Alfred Neu-bauer, who integrated the 26-year-old into his works team along with Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Karl Kling. Parallel to this, in 1954 Herrmann continued to start for
Never to be forgotten is the spectacular incident that occurred during the Mille Miglia in 1954, when Herrmann and his co-pilot Herbert Linge ducked flat under the bar-riers to cross the rails at a closed level crossing, right in the path of a rapidly ap-proaching train. Later, Herrmann made a photo of the spectacular moment the sub-ject of a letter card, with the inscription “Glück muss man haben” (“You’ve got to be lucky”). In conversation, he completed this definition in a much more serious under-tone: “Glück hat, wer als Rennfahrer überlebt.” (“Luck, for a racing driver, is to survi-ve”).
When in 1955 the Daimler-Benz works withdrew from motor sport, Hans Herrmann was at the start again for
In 1962 he changed to Carlo Abarth and was active as works driver for the Vienna design engineer from 1963. Three years later, in 1966, he returned to the
In 1969 the
He took this climax of a career in motor sport as the occasion to withdraw from active racing at the age of 42. He had also promised his wife Madelaine before the race that if he won he would give up his dangerous profession. As a pilot of historic race-cars, he also takes part in many vintage car events for the
2/22/2018
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