Florian Camathias

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Mounts: Lightweight – N.S.U.
Sidecar – B.M.W.

Florian Camathias comes from Montreux, in Switzerland, where he is a motorcycle mechanic. He states that his age is 1924 which should surely give the A.C.U. cause to think, for whilst the Regulations state that all "drivers must be male persons over 18 years of age", there is no restriction as to how much over 18 such male drivers may be. However, "1924'' probably refers to the date of birth, rather than age, so we assume that he is 33.

Florian has had many successes in the last three years. In 1955, for example, he broke 19 World’s records at Montlhery track, Paris, whilst last year he collected “9 premiers prix internationaux” and this year a couple more “premiers prix”.

He is his own entrant for both this year’s races; his B.M.W. is a 1956 “ex-works” machine, and his N.S.U. a “Sports Max de course”.

Hobby: Ski-ing.
(TT Special, 5 June 1957, p.6.)

Age 36, Florian Camathias comes from Montreux, in Switzerland, where he is a motorcycle mechanic. Florian has had many successes in the last six years. In 1955, for example, he broke 19 World's records at Monlhery track, Paris. Whilst in 1956 he collected "9 premiers prix internationaux" and in 1957 a couple more "premiers prix". He rode in the T.T. for the first time in 1957 in the Lightweight he was ninth on an n.S.U. at 67.83 m.p.h., winning a Silver Replica, and in the Sidecar race he was third on his B.M.W. at 70.14 m.p.h, with another "Silver", of course.

For his T.T. performances he was awarded the Overseas Newcomer's Trophy and the Ray B. Westover Trophy. Returning to the Continent, he won the sidecar event of the Dutch T.T. and was second in the same class of the Belgian, German and East German Grands Prix. Last year he was first in the German Grand Prix, the Dutch T.T. and the Czechslovakian Grand Prix. Whilst in England he scored firsts in the sidecar classes at Aintree, Mallory Park. Oulton Park and Scarborough. This year he already won the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona and races at Oulton Park and Bourg en Bresse (France). He was third in the Sidecar class of the recent French Grand Prix. Hobby: Ski-ing. (TT Special, 13 June 1960, p.16.)

Nationality: Swiss

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