Otto Salzer at the 1914 French Grand Prix (cropped)

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, where he became team leader in 1903, previously having worked as an engineer since 1896. He had some good results, and was one of the first German

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-drivers when his Mercedes team (with

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) joined the

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. Salzer continued in the

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(with

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Willy Pöge (Friedrich Elias Willibald) Willy Pöge (2 December 1869 - 12 May 1914)
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(with Louis Wagner),

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, and was also present the 1922 Italian Grand Prix. He was born in

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, Württemberg and died in Obertürkheim near

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