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Albert Scherrer

Swiss racing driver (1908-1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ116272 ↗
Source-derived summary

Albert Scherrer (28 February 1908 – 5 July 1986) was a racing driver from Switzerland. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1953 Swiss Grand Prix. He finished 16 laps down and unclassified, scoring no championship points.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Albert Scherrer” is swiss racing driver (1908-1986). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Albert, Scherrer and Swiss, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1986, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-02-28. For this dossier, Albert, Scherrer and Swiss is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116272. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1986 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albert Scherrer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.