Remembering Albert Scherrer, born #OnThisDay in 1908. He entered the ’53 #SwissGP in a 3rd works HWM-Alta (pic); 18th in qualifying, he spun in the race before finishing a distant 8th. #AnorakFact: it was the only major single-seater race of his career.

Remembering Max de Terra, born #OnThisDay in 1918, who drove for Écurie Espadon, a group of Swiss amateur racers. He raced in his home GP in ’52 & ’53, & is here shown in the ’53 #SwissGP in a Ferrari 166C leading fellow Écurie Espadon driver Peter Hirt’s Ferrari 500.

#OnThisDay in ’82, at Dijon, Keke Rosberg (Williams FW08) won the #SwissGP, which wasn’t in Switzerland but was so called because there was already a #FrenchGP at Paul Ricard in ’82. #AnorakFact: it was Keke’s first #F1 GP win, & the first by a Finn. Pic by Rainer Schlegelmilch.

Remembering Clay Regazzoni, who died in 2006 when the SUV that he was driving collided with a truck on the A1 motorway near Parma (Italy). He won 5 #F1 GPs & 2 non-championship F1 races, including his ‘home’ GP, the #SwissGP at Dijon (France), #OnThisDay 50 years ago (pic).

Here’s a wonderful pic, taken by Louis Klemantaski, showing Alberto Ascari en route to victory in the ’53 #SwissGP at Bremgarten, #OnThisDay 72 years ago. It was Ascari’s 13th & last GP victory.

Bremgarten in heavy rain was not only difficult but also dangerous. #OnThisDay in ’38 the #SwissGP was run at Bremgarten in heavy rain, & the winner was one of the original Regenmeisters (ie, rain masters), Rudi Caracciola, in his mighty Merc W154 (pic).

#OnThisDay in ’39 Hermann Lang won the #SwissGP at Bremgarten in this Merc W154, having started from the pole & having driven fastest lap en route. A former mechanic, he was looked down on by some of his more patrician team-mates, but he was as good as any of them.

#OnThisDay 75 years ago was held the ’50 #SwissGP at Bremgarten. Question: was there ever an older championship #F1 GP podium? Answer & #AnorakFact: no. Nino Farina (Alfa Romeo 158; winner; pic) was 43, his Alfa team-mate Luigi Fagioli 52, & Louis Rosier (Talbot-Lago T26C-DA) 44.

#HappyBirthday Jo Vonlanthen, 83. An #F2 man from ’73 to ’76, but never a winner, he started one championship #F1 GP, Österreichring ’75 (pic), in a Williams FW03 (originally a ’73 Iso-Marlboro), & he DNF’d. He also raced the car in the ’75 non-championship F1 #SwissGP at Dijon.

#F1 #OnThisDay, May 18th 1952, it was a #ScuderiaFerrari 1-2 at the #SwissGP, which was held at the #BremgartenCircuit in #Bern. #PieroTaruffi won ahead of Swiss #RudiFischer. #JeanBehra took 3rd for #Gordini. youtu.be/C9yysHaief0
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Remembering Albert Scherrer, born #OnThisDay in 1908. He entered the ’53 #SwissGP, in a 3rd works HWM-Alta (pic). 18th in quali, he spun in the race before finishing a distant 8th. It was the only major single-seater race of his career. But he’d had a go.

Born #OnThisDay in 1913, Christian Kautz, the son of a Swiss millionaire, raced 3 late-’30s GPs in Mercs & Auto Unions. In WW2 he became a Lockheed test pilot in the USA. After the war he returned to racing & was killed in a Maserati, in the ’48 #SwissGP, at Bremgarten, aged 34.