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NSU has made a name for himself in the sport in the early years of the twentieth century In 1905, a Frau Eisemann Hamburg took part in the race on Eisenach-Berlin-Eisenach road 660 kilometers, and a new record for motorcycles 2-horse the first victory in motor racing's most prestigious world, the Tourist Trophy, came in 1907, 1908, the company has captured its first speed records one of his motorcycles had risen to 106 km h on the race track in Hanover in 1910, William Streiff made headlines by crossing the American continent from San Francisco to New York, a distance of 6,300 kilometers on unpaved roads in 28 days Gassert won a gold medal in 1911 Tourist Trophy in 1930, NSU hired an Englishman, Sir William Moore, the new chief designer for the motorcycle factory Neckarsulm He and the English racing motorcyclist Tom Bullus made a successful team, winning every race po ur which the company in 1930 and 1931 securities other German and Swiss championship won be tween 1935 and 1937.
NSU began to enter for international car races in 1908 The 1909 Prince Henry Run was a great success, repeated in many other long distance races and reliability tests in 1914 NSU won the Circuit through Morocco, and won a class victory in the 1923 small car race on the Avus circuit in 1925 Momberger led redesign, 6 60 hp racing car with supercharged six-cylinder engine, to victory in the first sports car grand Prix NSU Germany took the first four places in the 1500cc class of the event in 1926, and was fifth overall.
Böhm won the German championship titles in the 600 cc and 1000 cc supercharged sidecar categories in 1947. A year later Wilhelm Herz became German champion on a 350 cc supercharged NSU motorcycle Heiner Fleischmann was German champion in 1950.
In 1953 Werner Haas took two titles of World Champion in class 125 cc and 250 cc; he also won the titles of German champion twice in these classes of Victory in the 1954 TT Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man has been a major success After entering this event, the toughest motorcycle race the world for over 40 years without success, Hollaus on NSU took the checkered flag in the class 125 cc and Haas, Hollaus, Armstrong and Müller crossed the line in places 1 to 4 in the class 250cc in year Haas triumphed in the world championship 250 cc, with Rupert Hollaus taking the equivalent title in the 125 cc class titles Two German champions also went to Haas in classes 125 cc and 250 cc, and HP Müller on NSU was German champion in the class 350 cc NSU entered for 24 races and won all of them in 1955 HP Müller became the first private entrant to win a world championship, on an NSU Sportmax in events of motorcycle 250cc from 1955 to 1967 between 1955 and 1967 NSU riders won 23 league titles out German road with a bike that had been No. Technical development since 1957.
Between 1955 and 1967 NSU riders won 23 German titles Off Road Championship with a bike that had suffered no technical development since 1957.
The April 12, 1951 NSU motorcycles were used for speed record attempts on the motorway Munich-Ingolstadt for the first time since WWII riding a motorcycle streamlined NSU, Wilhelm Herz reached 279 5 km h and beat the record set 14 years ago by Henne on BMW in 1956 on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the US state of Utah, Wilhelm Herz broke the world record for motorcycles, reaching 339 km h in 1956, NSU held every world record motorcycle speed possible.
In 1960 and 1961, the model NSU Prinz II 30 won class victories in the Tour of Europe, more than 1200 km long and thus the longest rally of the world in 1961 was followed by a class win for third consecutive year in the Gran Premio Argentino, reaching the finish line in less than 50 hours at an average speed of over 90 km h 1962 season was a triumph for Karl-Heinz Panowitz driving a Prinz II 30, it was in German touring cars hillclimb champion in all classes Just a year later Siegfried Spiess won the German title hillclimb he was German champion GT hillclimb in 1965 driving a NSU Prinz 1000, again in all classes after that NSU Wankel era began Panowitz Strunz were in 1966, German champions GT Rally driving an NSU Wankel spider in a similar car, Siegfried Spiess became German Hillclimb champion in tou your classes of the 1967 season the same year saw the overall victory Günther Irmscher in the world's longest rally, the Tour of Europe Siegfried Spiess won the Ge RMAN Championship Hillclimb in all classes again in 1968 , NSU Wankel Spider resulting in a total of six league titles in Germany went NSU cars between 1961 and 1968 and on the international stage, the company won no fewer than 29 touring car championships between 1962 and 1967.
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