Josef Peters

Josef Peters (16 September 1914 - 24 April 2001): German racing driver from Düsseldorf who participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix on 3 August 1952, failing to finish and scoring no championship points. Josef Peters completed a single lap of the Nürburgring during the 1952 German Grand Prix in a privately-entered Veritas car. Unfortunately in the race at the Nürburgring his engine failed after one lap. Josef Peters competed in the early 1950s with a sports-bodied Veritas-BMW.

As well as sports car events, he competed in F2 races at Avus and Grenzlandring (a race around the town's ring road) in 1951. He was third at the Grenzlandring later that year but what was his best F2 result was overshadowed by Helmut Niedermayr's crash into the crowd that left several dead. The sports-bodied Veritas was put to good use in the 1953 Nürburgring 1000 Km when Josef and Wolfgang Seidel took fifth place overall and won the 1500cc-2000cc class.