Christian Kautz

Swiss racing driver (1913–1948)

Christian Kautz (23 November 1913 – 4 July 1948) was an auto racing driver from Switzerland.^[1]

Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, he career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix. Kautz was a test pilot for Lockheed in the United States during the Second World War. He was only 34 when he died in an accident in a Maserati at the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten.^[2]

Racing record

Complete European Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	EDC	Pts
1937	Daimler-Benz AG	Mercedes W125	Mercedes 5.7 L8s	BEL 4	GER 6	MON 3	SUI 6	ITA Ret	3rd	19
1938	Auto Union AG	Auto Union D	Auto Union 3.0 V12 s	FRA Ret	GER	SUI Ret	ITA Ret		14th	28
1939	Christian Kautz	Alfa Romeo Tipo 308	Alfa Romeo 3.0 L8 s	BEL	FRA DNS	GER	SUI		—¹
Source:^[3]

Notes

^1 – Not listed in the Championship.

Post WWII Grandes Épreuves results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4
1947	Christian Kautz	Maserati 4CL	Maserati 4CL 1.5 L4 s	SUI	BEL Ret	ITA	FRA
1948	Enrico Platé	Maserati 4CL	Maserati 4CL 1.5 L4 s	MON	SUI Ret	FRA	ITA
Source:^[4]

References

^ "Drivers – Christian Kautz". mercedesamgf1.com. Archived from the original on May 16, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
^ "Drivers – Christian Kautz". historicracing.com. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
^ "Drivers – Christian Kautz". kolumbus.fi. Archived from the original on May 2, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
^ "Christian Kautz – Biography". MotorSportMagazine. Retrieved May 16, 2019.

External links

Christian Kautz career summary at DriverDB.com

The Grand Prix Silver Arrows

Auto Union

Cars	Type A Type B Type C Type D
Drivers	Bigalke Burggaller von Delius Fagioli Hasse Heydel Kautz Kluge Leiningen Meier Momberger Müller Nuvolari Pietsch Rosemeyer Sebastian Stuck Varzi
Personnel	von Eberhorst (engine designer) Feuereissen (team manager) Porsche (designer) Rosenberg (designer) Sebastian (technical racing manager) Siebler (designer) Strobel (designer) Walb (team manager)

Mercedes-Benz

Cars	W25 W125 Stromlinienwagen W154 W165
Drivers	Bäumer von Brauchitsch Brendel Caracciola Chiron Fagioli Geier Hartmann Henne Kautz Lang Seaman Zehender
Personnel	Heefi (engine designer) Heeß (designer) Neubauer (team manager) Nallinger (engineer) Nibel (engineer/technical director) Sailer (designer) Schilling (engine designer) Uhlenhaut (designer/technical director) Wagner (designer)