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🇩🇪 Paul Pietsch

Racing driver from Germany. Formula 1, Veritas.
Driver facts
Full name
Paul Pietsch
Born
20 June 1911(b. 1911)
Nationality
Germany
Current team
Veritas
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
3
Career DNFs
3
Racer Rating
4,385
Paul Pietsch
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,385
Rank 2254 of 40,105 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Paul Pietsch is a racing driver from Germany who last raced in Formula 1 for Veritas. Pietsch has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 3 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 4,385 ranks Pietsch 2254th of 40,105 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1952 form
Last 3 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFITAGERGER
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1952-08-03NürburgringFormula 1DNF−72
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1952▸Formula 1Veritas100100P13−724,385
1951▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo100100P14−514,428
1950▸Formula 1Maserati100100P13+3,1094,459
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Pietsch finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇮🇹 Nino Farina6,49531233%
🇮🇹 Alberto Ascari6,2523030%
🇮🇹 Piero Taruffi6,1843030%
🇮🇹 Felice Bonetto6,11732167%
🇫🇷 Maurice Trintignant5,9613030%
🇧🇪 Johnny Claes5,5643030%
🇫🇷 Robert Manzon5,5003030%
🇨🇭 Toulo de GraffenriedHigher-rated6,01921150%
🇧🇪 Paul FrèreHigher-rated5,974110100%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
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2,253🇺🇸 Michael GuaschLe Mans Cup4,385
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Paul Pietsch was a professional-level racing driver who competed in Formula 1 between 1950 and 1952. His rating of 5,075 places him in the established professional band, the level of a full-time competitor at the top tier or a factory sportscar driver who can win in strong fields. Pietsch made three starts in the championship, all for Veritas, and recorded a best finish of 23rd place; he also drove for Alfa Romeo, a works team that fielded Juan Fangio, then among the world's strongest drivers. His brief spell in Formula 1 came during the sport's inaugural seasons, when the grid drew on Europe's surviving pre-war racing talent and the machinery was still evolving rapidly from that era.[1]

Beyond his racing career, Pietsch became a significant figure in German automotive journalism and publishing, founding the magazine Das Auto and building Motor Presse Stuttgart into the largest publisher of technology and special-interest titles in the European market. He lived to 100 years old and remained notable in automotive history as a link to the pre-war racing tradition, having raced Auto Union machines in the 1930s before returning to competition after the Second World War.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Oldest living F1 driver passes away aged 100[1]
racingnews365.com
6 May 2026
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Fate of a racing car - The Auto Union Type C in the Deutsches Museum (Race Car Articles)[2]
Zwischengas
21 Apr 2025
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Paul Pietsch (1911–2012)[3]
Supercars.net
28 Jan 2025
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