Christian Kautz

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.

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