Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau

Former F1 team
Short_name = AFM
Long_name = flagicon|GermanyAlex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau

Base =
Founders = flagicon|GermanyAlexander von Falkenhausen
Staff =
Drivers = flagicon|GermanyHans Stuck flagicon|GermanyWilli Heeks flagicon|GermanyHelmut Niedermayr flagicon|GermanyLudwig Fischer flagicon|GermanyWilli Krakau flagicon|East GermanyTheo Fitzau flagicon|GermanyGünther Bechem
Engines = BMW, Bristol, Küchen
Debut = 1952 Swiss Grand Prix
Races = 4
Cons_champ = 0
Drivers_champ = 0
Wins = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest_laps = 0
Last race = 1953 Italian Grand Prix

Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau (AFM) (but some sources claim the M stood for Munich) was a German racing car constructor. The team was started by Alexander von Falkenhausen, who was in the 1930s an important engineer in the development of BMW's model 328, along with Alfred Boning, Ernst Loof and Fritz Fiedler. The 328 was a dominant sports car in late 1930s Europe and winner of the 1940 Mille Miglia race in Brescia, Italy.

After World War II, von Falkenhausen opened a garage in Munich where he tuned pre-war 328s, converting some of them into single-seaters, and in 1948 went on to build his own car marque with the 328's engine. As a result, the Formula 2 AFM-1 appeared in 1949, driven by Hans Stuck, resulting in a third place at the Grenzlandring. AFM won a heat in the Autodromo GP at Monza with Stuck behind the wheel, beating the Ferraris of Alberto Ascari and Juan Manuel Fangio. Other cars were raced by Fritz Riess, Karl Gommann, Willi Heeks and Manfred von Brauchitsch. By 1951 Stuck was within the development of a lightweight V8 engine designed by Richard Küchen and won the 1951 Grenzlandring F2 race with the so-called AFM-4-"Küchen". The F1|1952 and F1|1953 World Drivers' Championships were run to Formula Two regulations, enabling AFM cars to compete in several World Championship rounds. By the time 1953 rolled in, the cars were becoming less competitive and with the fall of F2 that year the marque and the team faded away, while Freiherr von Falkenhausen in 1954 started to work for BMW again, leading their "Rennsportabteilung" for more than the following 20 years.

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External links

* [http://8w.forix.com/afm.html Alex von Falkenhausen's brave F2 effort]