Kaiserpreis

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The Kaiserpreis (German: Emperor's Prize) auto race, named after Emperor Wilhelm II, was a Grand Prix motor race held at Taunus on 13–14 June 1907.[1] Like his brother's Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt held from 1908 to 1911, it was a precursor to the German Grand Prix.

As Camille Jenatzy had won the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing in 1903 with a Mercedes, Germany had to stage the 1904 event. A 117 km (73 mi) long track in the Taunus mountains was selected, from Oberursel to Weilburg and back. The Cup was won by Léon Théry in a Richard-Brasier, and the Gordon Bennett race returned to France for 1905 and 1906, but was not continued as such in 1907, as Grand Prix motor racing evolved.

On the same track as the Gordon Bennett three years earlier, Germany staged its second large international event in 1907, the Kaiserpreis auto race (after sailing and rowing events were also named so). Entries were limited to touring cars with engines of less than eight litres. The race was won by Italian Felice Nazzaro in a Fiat 130 HP, against competition from Opel, Mercedes, Eisenach, Adler and others.

In 1908, the Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt resumed until 1911.

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Laps	Time/Retired
1	8B	Vincenzo Lancia	Fiat 130 HP	2	2h56m17
2	3A	Friedrich Opel	Opel	2	3h01m00
3	16A	Lucien Hautvast	Pipe	2	3h02m56
4	19A	P. Geller	Adler	2	3h02m56
5	35A	Alessandro Cagno	Itala	2	3h07m26
6	37A	Hugo Wilhelm	Metallurgique	2	3h08m05
7	3B	Carl Jörns	Opel	2	3h10m08
8	26A	R. Schmidt	Eisenach	2	3h11m39
9	14A	Vincenzo Florio	Darracq	2	3h11m50
10	7A	Victor Hémery	Benz	2	3h12m52
11	10A	Moore-Brabazon	Minerva	2	3h14m56
12	13A	Fernand Gabriel Arthur Duray	Lorraine-Dietrich	2	3h16m01
13	15A	Gerhard Adelberger	Protos	2	3h34m20
14	6A	Marc Jeannin	Sun	2	3h35m18
15	40A	Henze	Imperia	2	3h37m43
16	31A	Douet	Gobron-Brillié	2	3h41m36
17	1A	F. Schmidt	Dürkopp	2	3h44m41
18	33A	Gianmaria Tomaselli	Bianchi	2	3h48m25
19	34A	Camille Jenatzy	Mercedes	2	3h50m55
20	32A	Beutler	Martini	2	3h57m06
21	41A	Saze	Gräf & Stift	2	3h58m54
22	20A	Ferey	Vinot	2	3h59m52
23	22A	Emil Mathis	Mathis	2	4h03m17
24	23A	Franz Kirchheim	Ehrhardt	2	4h16m01
25	12A	A. Lavergne	Mors	2	4h28m25
Ret	1B	Rudolf Oelerisch	Dürkopp	1
Ret	18A	B. Buckner	Horch	1
Ret	4A	Taddioli	Rebour	1
Ret	42A	Carl Fritsch	NAG	1
Ret	5A	Flohr	Argus	0
Ret	9A	"Alexander Burton"	Mercedes	0
Ret	11A	A. Villemain	Martin-Lethimonnier	0
Ret	27A	Vincenzo Trucco	Isotta Fraschini	0
Ret	28A	Enrico Maggioni	Zust	0
Ret	29A	Oliver Bush	Daimler	0
Ret	30A	Emile Stricker	Protos	0
Ret	36A	Otto Hyeronymous	Gaggenau	0
Ret	7B	Dietrich Spamann	Benz	0
Ret	39A	Lord Glentworth	Napier	0
DNA	17A	Carlo Raggio	FLAG
DNA	21A	Wladin	Rochet-Schneider
DNA	24A	Boschis	Fiat Brevetti
DNA	25A	Leon Collinet	Ariès
DNA	25B	Jean Vallée	Ariès
DNA	28B	Marco Conti	Zust
DNA	37C	Bussing	Metallurgique
DNA	38A	G. Busson	Lucia
	7C	Schulz	Benz		Alternative driver
	9B	Ferdinand Porsche	Mercedes		Alternative driver
	19C	Christer Junk	Adler		Alternative driver
	42B	R. Scholz	NAG		Alternative driver
	1C	Beneslav Jarosch	Dürkopp

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Laps	Time/Retired
1	8B	Felice Nazzaro	Fiat 130 HP	2	2h50m11
2	8C	Louis Wagner	Fiat 130 HP	2	2h56m55
3	16C	C.Deplus	Pipe	2	3h01m45
4	13C	Arthur Duray	Lorraine-Dietrich	2	3h09m45
5	34B	Willy Poege	Mercedes	2	3h09m56
6	34C	Otto Salzer	Mercedes	2	3h11m37
7	35C	Maurice Fournier	Itala	2	3h12m32
8	27B	Ferdinando Minoia	Isotta Fraschini	2	3h12m42
9	10C	Albert Guyot	Minerva	2	3h13m01
10	13B	Henri Rougier	Lorraine-Dietrich	2	3h13m27
11	35B	Maurice Fabry	Itala	2	3h14m20
12	26B	Salmann	Eisenach	2	3h14m21
13	3C	Michel	Opel	2	3h19m05
14	29B	G.Ison	Daimler	2	3h25m28
15	32B	Beck	Martini	2	3h25m43
16	33B	Carlo Maserati	Bianchi	2	3h27m02
17	14C	Brauda	Darracq	2	3h28m00
18	42B	W Salzer	NAG	2	3h48m25
19	21B	Viton	Rochet-Schneider	2	3h32m33
20	31B	F.Terry	Gobron-Brillie	2	3h35m54
Ret	19C	Dietrich Goebel	Adler	1
Ret	23B	K.Beireis	Ehrhardt	1
Ret	7C	Clemente de Bojano	Benz	1
Ret	18B	H.Hoffmann	Horch	1
Ret	11B	Ducon	Martin-Lethimonnier	0
Ret	36B	David Lucke	Gaggenau	0
Ret	18C	Wilhelm Krapff	Horch	0
Ret	27C	Giuseppe Tamagni	Isotta-Fraschini	0
Ret	29C	Hodierne	Daimler	0
Ret	36C	Robl	Gaggenau	0
Ret	42C	H.Ernecke	NAG	0

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060420013018/http://www.gpracing.net192.com/history/golden_age.cfm
• https://www.goldenera.fi/gpw1.htm Archived 2009-04-13 at the Wayback Machine