Wolfgang Seidel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Seidel

racecar driver and entrant

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1926

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1987

Profession: engineer, racing automobile driver, Formula One driver

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Wolfgang Seidel (4 July 1926 in Dresden – 1 March 1987 in Munich) was a racing driver from Germany.
He participated in 12 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 August 1953.
He scored no championship points. Seidel often entered cars under his own name, or under the Scuderia Colonia banner.
After having been refused a start at the 1962 German Grand Prix due to slowness, Seidel got in an argument with officials from the Automobilclub von Deutschland.
Combined with some doubts about the level of preparation of his cars, Seidel's competition licence was withdrawn, and he offered his two cars up for sale.
In spite of not having a licence, Seidel competed in the non-championship 1962 Mexican Grand Prix a few months later. He died in 1987 of a heart attack.