Florian Schmidt ("Dimsch") (CS)
1903 - ?
Florian Schmidt Junior was the son of a textile
manufacturer in Jägersdorf, Czechoslovakia but lived in
Austria. He drove under the pseudonym 'Dimsch' during
1928 with a Bugatti T40, a 4-cylinder 1.5-liter sports
car with T37 engine. In 1929 he purchased a new
1.1-liter 6-cylinder supercharged Amilcar. He drove
primarily at montain climb events. In 1931 he added a
1.5-liter Bugatti T37A in which he won his class at the
Masaryk Circuit, which was to be his greatest success.
From 1932 on he teamed up with Bruno Sojka who had an
older Bugatti T37A. In 1934 the team purchased from the
Molsheim factory a 1.5-liter 8-cylinder twin-cam
supercharged Bugatti T51A, formerly owned by Pierre
Veyron. Schmidt entered in the Eifelrennen where he
placed second behind Castelbarco’s 1.5-liter Maserati
but beat Burggaller in another T51A. Due to commitments
with his work, Schmidt limited his driving to very few
races but he entered at mountain climbs, like the Ecce
Homo Race in 1938.
(Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt)
1930: DNA Czech (Voiturette)
1931: 1 Czech GP (Voiturette)
1932: DNF Eifel GP (Voiturette) / DNS Lwow GP
1934: 2 Eifel (Voiturette) / DNF Czech GP (Voiturette)
1935: DNF Frontières GP / DNA Eifel (Voiturette) / DNA
Czech GP (Voiturette)
1937: ? Czech GP (Voiturette)
Thank you / Reference / Credit
http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/ds.htm