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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 November 1909 Bielefeld, German Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 December 1975 (aged 66) Ingolstadt, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hermann Paul Müller (21 November 1909 – 30 December 1975) was a German sidecar, motorcycle, and race car driver.
Müller started his competitive career on an Imperia in 1928. He became German Sidecar Champion in 1932, then in 1936, he took the German 500cc Motorcycle title.
He switched to cars the next year, driving for Auto Union. He won the 1939 edition of the FIA French Grand Prix held in Reims. The winner of that season's European Championship was never officially announced by the AIACR due to the outbreak of World War II. Although Müller would have won the championship on points, the president of Germany's highest motorsports organisation declared Hermann Lang the champion.[1]
After the war he returned to motorcycle racing, winning the 1947 and 1948 German 250cc titles on DKW. In 1955, he won the 250cc world championship riding an NSU Sportmax. He also set quite a number of world speed records in five classes over six distances for NSU on the Bonneville salt flats in 1956. To this day he remains the oldest person to win a Grand Prix Motorcycle world championship, at the age of 46.
Racing record
[edit]Complete European Championship results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
| Year | Entrant | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | EDC | Points |
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| 1937 | Auto Union | Auto Union Type C | BEL Ret | GER Ret | MON | SUI | ITA 5 | 14th | 33 |
| 1938 | Auto Union | Auto Union Type D | FRA DNS | GER 4 | SUI Ret | ITA Ret | 5th= | 20 | |
| 1939 | Auto Union | Auto Union Type D | BEL Ret | FRA 1 | GER 2 | SUI 4 | 1st | 12 |
Motorcycle Grand Prix results
[edit]Points system from 1950 to 1968.
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Points | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Class | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Points | Rank | Wins |
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| 1952 | 125cc | Mondial | IOM | NED | GER | ULS | NAT | ESP 5 | 2 | 15th | 0 | |||
| 1953 | 500cc | Horex MV Agusta | IOM | NED | BEL | GER | FRA | ULS | SUI Ret | NAT 6 | ESP | 1 | 19th | 0 |
| 1954 | 125cc | NSU | IOM Ret | ULS 2 | NED 2 | GER 4 | NAT | ESP | 15 | 3rd | 0 | |||
| 250cc | NSU | FRA 2 | IOM 4 | ULS 3 | NED 5 | GER 14 | SUI 3 | NAT | 17 (19) | 3rd | 0 | |||
| 1955 | 250cc | NSU | IOM 3 | GER 1 | NED 3 | ULS 6 | NAT 4 | 16 | 1st | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ Armstrong, Richard. "Unfinished Symphony: Why the 1939 European Championship was never won". 8W. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
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