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Ernst Loof, the pre-World War II German motorcycle racing champion, best remembered as a designer for BMW and Veritas, made his only Formula 1 appearance as a driver in the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring, but his Veritas Meteor retired with a faulty fuel pump

Sunday 2nd August 1953

Ernst Loof, the pre-World War II German motorcycle racing champion, best remembered as a designer for BMW and Veritas, made his only Formula 1 appearance as a driver in the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring, but his Veritas Meteor retired with a faulty fuel pump.

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