The X---- Porsche cars

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the car in Otto's dust is a BMW Veritas
Behind an AFM and a BMW 328

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Baden is a reknown Spa station close to Wien (25 km) with huge hotels and golf course

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In the 50's many car races were organized at Baden to distract rich curists either on the ash horse track (similar races than on the Wien Krieau horsetrack) and on open roads
I am amazed to see sport cars at full speed in the middle of hun

dreds of spectators without any protection

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and as very often the winner was

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Back in 1954 with the same 356





and bis repetita

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One race on tarmack with race number 20

At this occasion Otto was sponsorised by Semperit an Austrian tyres company who still exist today

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Racing on sand track was quite hard with an closed car as prooved by the amount of dust on the windscreen that an anemic wiper could not clean

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To avoid dust accumulation on the windscreen, Otto had two ideas :
Take the driver side window off and drive with specracles
Invent a windscreen washer
On this pic the 2 small tubes linked to a rubber bottle full of water could be seen

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During the 1953 year Otto had a more straighfull idea : built a dedicated race car for ice racing and earth and ash racing : The Fetzenflieger was born

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Very quickly (early 1955 when he got the 4 cams Fuhrmann engine) Otto realised that his Fetzenflieger was more competitive than ann its other cars and started to use it for road racing as seen there after in the 1957 Gaisberg rennen hill climb (at that time he was competing against 550 spyders)


Start of the race with a lotus 11 behind him

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Wow, great pics!

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At the 2nd place Hans Hermann with a Borgward 1500 GS

At the 3rd place Richard Von Frankenberg on a 550 RS Carrera

Huschke Von Hanstein on another 550 RS was 5th (no pic unfortunately)
Ernst Vogel was 8 th with his 550 spyder



Edgar Barth was DNF


as to Ludwig Fisher