Gerhard Heide

Gerhard Heide is a Glasean racing driver who currently competes in the Grand Prix International Championship series for Fahrwerk Grand Prix. He currently holds the records for the most podiums, the most wins and the most won Drivers' Championships in the sport. Gerhard Heide abandoned his early studies to pursue a formation as a car mechanic. He was then drafted in the Great War as a tank driver, and started racing after the war in the 1942 Glasean Touring Championship, in which he ended up second in the standings. He was then hired by Glasean manufacturer Fahrwerk to compete in the Championnat Ouest-Artopéen de Grand Tourisme (Grand Tourisme for short) in 1946. Heide competed 5 years in the category, winning the championship once and bringing Fahrwerk their first championship in the series. When the creation of the GPI Championship was announced in 1951, Fahrwerk decided to withdraw from Grand Tourisme and invested heavily into this new promising series. Heide had a lot of influence in the early development of the car, in which he won the first GPI driver Championship a year after.