- Edgar Barth
Former F1 driver
Name = Edgar Barth
Nationality = flagicon|Germany German [East German until 1957, then West German. Only the flag of West Germany is used here, because until 1959, the flag of East Germany looked exactly the same.]
Years = F1|1953, F1|1957 - F1|1958, F1|1960, F1|1964
Team(s) = EMW, Porsche,Rob Walker Racing Team
Races = 5
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Points = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race =1953 German Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race =1964 German Grand Prix Edgar Barth (
January 26 1917 , Herold-Erzgebirge –May 20 1965 ,Ludwigsburg ) was a German (East German until 1957, then West German)Formula One andsports car racing driver.He began his career as a
DKW motorcycle racer and later switched toBMW sportscars. The East German factory of BMW would become theEisenacher Motorenwerk (EMW) after the war. He raced theseFormula 2 cars even in Western Germany until politics prevented this. In 1957, he defected to the West.Barth won the 1959, 1963 and 1964 European Mountain Championships (
Hillclimb ) for Porsche and also the 1959Targa Florio .Apart from
Formula 2 races withPorsche 718 , he also took part in the24 Hours of Le Mans on numerous occasions.He participated four times in the
German Grand Prix , the last one in 1964 for Rob Walker in a Cooper. Nine months later he succumbed to cancer.Edgar Barth's son
Jürgen Barth became an engineer at Porsche who also went into motorsport, to win theLe Mans 24 Hours in 1977.Complete Formula One World Championship results
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