page_title: Georg Meier
section_title: Auto Union Team 1939
hierarchical_section_title: Georg Meier / Biography / Auto Union Team 1939
caption_attribution_description: 1938 Auto-Union V16 type C/D replica. This original car was purpose-bult for hillclimbing competitions. The construction was headed by Dr. Ing. Robert Eberan von Eberhorst. The car was built on a type D chassis and powered by a 520 hp supercharged 6005 cc V16 engine designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. Fuel consumption was 6 litres/10 km. In 1939 Hans. Struck drove the car to victory at La Turbie in France and came second at the Grosslockner track in Austria. H. P. Müller was successful both at Grosslockner and on mountain roads in Kohlensberg aoutside Vienna. In 1945 the car was taken from Auto-Union in Zwickau to Moscow, to study it's technology. In 1976 it was at the ZIL factory in Moscow, and scheduled to be cut up for scrap metal, when Victors Kulbergs, president of the Antique Automobile Club of Latvia, acquired it as the first exhibit for the Riga Motor Museum. Audi later bought the car in exchange for money and an exact replica. In England in 1997 Crosthwhaite &amp; Gardiner started work on restoring the original and creating the replica. The completed replica was unveiled in 2007 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
context_page_description: Georg "Schorsch" Meier was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT, the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races, in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motorcycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100 mph.
context_section_description: The 1939 Eifelrennen was the first race of the season for the Auto Union team. Along with fellow motorcycle racer Hermann Paul Müller, they acted as reserve drivers for the Auto Union team. After qualifying for the 1939 Eifelrennen, Hans Stuck injured his foot playing skittle and the place was taken by Meier, who failed to start the race after a technical failure of his Auto Union Type D. The 1939 Eifelrennen was won by Hermann Lang driving the Mercedes-Benz W154 after Tazio Nuvolari driving for Auto Union tried to run the race non-stop. For the 1939 Belgium Grand Prix, Meier again deputised for Hans Stuck in the Auto Union team. The race, held in heavy rain and poor visibility, was dominated by the Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows of Dick Seaman and Hermann Lang. On lap 14, Meier's Auto Union Type D was forced into a ditch by privateer Adolphe Mandirola driving a Maserati 6CM at Blanchemont on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit and then retired. The 1939 Belgium Grand Prix was again won by Hermann Lang, but was domininated by the death of Dick Seaman in a crash at La Source hairpin. The 1939 French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux was dominated by Auto Union after the retirement of the Mercedes-Benz drivers, after Rudolf Caracciola crashed on lap 1, a lap-17 engine failure for von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang on lap 36. The race was won by Hermann Paul Müller for Auto Union and Meier finished in 2nd place after a pit-fire burnt his arm.
caption: 1938 Auto-Union V12 type D saved from being cut up for scrap metal
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