Just Who are These Other Guys?

Words: Steve Johnson

If you’re a fan of Audi’s past racing successes, I’m sure you know who Hans Stuck (the elder) and Bernd Rosemeyer are. Hopefully you’ve read about them in past quattro Magazine issues, perhaps in issue Q4_2024, on how the Auto Union’s Silver Arrows did in their first season of grand prix racing in 1934. You might also recognize the names Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari. Already successful grand prix drivers in their own right, they joined the Auto Union race team in 1935 and 1938, respectively.

But if you’re a true motorsports fan you also need to know about the team members who accompanied the team’s stars on the racing grid. Guys like Prinz Hermann zu Leiningen, August “Bubi” Momberger, Ernst Burggaller, Wilhelm Sebastian, Paul Pietsch, Ernst von Delius, Rudolf Hasse, Hermann Paul “H.P.” Mueller, Georg “Schorsch” Meier, and Ulrich Bigalke. These are The Other Guys and each one of them had a unique involvement with Auto Union. Some successful, some scandalous, some tragic, but each interesting. You can read about them in quattro Magazine issue Q2_2025 now on-line and coming very soon to your mailbox.

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